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This guide contains Library databases, reliable websites, books, and eBooks that can provide statistics and datasets in a wide variety of disciplines and topics.
Use Additional Online Resources
- Economy at a Glance - Bureau of Labor StatisticsIncludes monthly and quarterly data such as unemployment rate and consumer price index.
- EH.netEH.net provides full text of book reviews and course syllabi, directory of economic historians, lists of conferences, an Encyclopedia of economic and business history, and access to historical economic data sets (such as Global Financial Data, 1880-1913 and historic labor statistics).
- U.S. Bureau of Economic AnalysisThe US Bureau of Economic Analysis produce some of the most important economic measurements of the United States such as US gross domestic product, as well as state-level data.
Use Compustat, CRSP, WRDS, and FactSet
Fairfield University subscribes to Compustat, CRSP, and FactSet services through the Dolan School of Business and provides access to them for students and faculty of the university.
- Compustat provides accounting information for US firms
- The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) provides access to market data for US firms
Both are accessed through the Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS).
- WRDS includes financial datasets such as company accounting information, stock price information, patent information, operational business information and more for firms and in the US and around the world
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Economics Course Guides
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