Economics and Business Subject Guide
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Finding Books
Searching
Searching TIGER by keyword or subject is often the fastest way to find books about your topic.
For books that we don’t own here at Colorado College, or books that are checked out or otherwise unavailable, use Prospector - Colorado Unified Catalog
. You’ll find books (and CDs, DVDs, etc.) in libraries across Colorado that you can request and have sent to the Tutt Library circulation desk where you can check them out.
For books not available in TIGER or Prospector, you can request through Interlibrary Loan via WorldCat
.
Please ask a librarian if you need help with TIGER, Prospector, or WorldCat.
Online reference sources
- Oxford Handbooks Online. Business and Management – explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and sets the agenda for how those debates might evolve. The handbook offers authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship
Gale Virtual Reference LibraryCoverage: variesIncludes hundreds of specialized reference books on a variety of subjects. The contents are all available full text. Covers a wide variety of subject areas in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
Finding Articles
Searches for current scholarly article in Economics and Business should begin with one of the following databases:
Business Source CompleteCoverage: 1886 - currentA comprehensive source of indexing and abstracts for over 3,000 periodicals, most full text. Also includes monographs, country economic reports, industry reports, company profiles, working papers, SWOT analyses and author profiles. Supplemented by Regional Business News and seminar videos. Coverage of marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance, econometrics, economics, international business, and more.
EconLitCoverage: 1969 - currentCovers over 400 economics periodicals.
The Wall Street JournalCoverage: 1984 - currentDaily business/financial and political news and reports with global coverage.
For archival access to many of the major scholarly articles in the fields use JSTOR
. To locate additional Sports Economics articles, try SPORTdiscus
. Working papers are another format for scholarly research in Economics. One source for those is NBER Working Paper Series
.
Finding Company Information
MergentonlineCoverage: 1989 - currentU.S. and International company and industry information. 15 year financial backfile. Reports can be downloaded into Excel.
Hoover's OnlineCoverage: currentCompany financial information with links to official company web pages.
Morningstar.comCoverage: currentUp-to-date prices for stocks, mutual funds, and ETFs (exchange traded funds). Analyst reports. Morningstar's strength lies in its analysis of mutual funds. The Portfolio X-Ray tool lets you choose a group of stocks and funds to judge the balance of investments in a portfolio.
SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission – is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation such as annual and other company reports filed with EDGAR
Historical Corporate Reports Collection Online – companies headquatered in NYC from 1849 – early 1960s
Finding Industry Information
Office of Industry Analysis – provides information and analysis pertaining to issues affecting U.S. industry competitiveness: regulations and domestic policies. trade negotiations and support trade laws, and provide trade and industry data
Industry Snapshots from the Economic Census – US map and data
MergentonlineCoverage: 1989 - currentU.S. and International company and industry information. 15 year financial backfile. Reports can be downloaded into Excel.
Hoover's OnlineCoverage: currentCompany financial information with links to official company web pages.
Finding Statistical Data
Country data:
World DatabankCoverage: 1960-currentFree databases of economic indicators from the World Bank, including World Development Indicators (WDI), Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, Quarterly External Debt Statistics/SDDS and /GDDS, Africa Development Indicators, Global Economic Monitor (GEM), and Millennium Development Goals. The World databank interface can export statistics to Excel, and generate customizable maps and charts. Note: if problems are encountered with this website, please exit your browser completely and restart it; or try using a different browser.
International Financial StatisticsCoverage: 1948 - currentProvides users with time series which summarize each country's balance of payments, with collateral data on its principal components (trade and reserves), and data on the principal cause and effect elements (monetary expansion and contraction, government surpluses and deficits, production, prices and interest rates).
UN Statistics Division Common DatabaseCoverage: 1958 - currentStatistical compilation for the United Nations. Contains selected data series from 30 specialized international sources, including labor, agricultural, nutritional and industrial statistics. Years of coverage vary with data series/countries selected.
OECD ILibraryCoverage: 1967 - currentBooks, journals, working papers, statistics, and glossaries published by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). Users can search by country, theme, date, content type, and more. The OECD FactBook is available from 2005 to current, with data tables and graphs that can be exported to Excel. This database was formerly known as SourceOECD.
Central Bank Websites
Links to Central Banks with websites. Some information may be in English but not all have that option.
European Central Bank
The main purpose of European Central Bank (ECB) statistics is to support the monetary policy of the ECB and other tasks of the Eurosystem and the European System of Central Banks (ESCB).
U.S. Economic Data:
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Economic time series data. Most available for download.
FRED
Major U.S. economic indicators from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Historical Statistics Of The United StatesCoverage: 1600s - currentAnnual time series of the U.S. population, economic indicators, social conditions, and government. From colonial times to the present.
Statistical UniverseCoverage: N/AAccess to US statistical information.
Other Links to Statistical Resources
Statistics
Past course guides
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