• Economic Information
• Discussion Lists and Newsgroups
• Economics Journals
• Working Papers
• Government Economic Information
• Financial Institutions
• Think Tanks
• SEC Filings and Company Background Reports
• Stock Exchanges and Financial Markets
• Business and Financial News
• International Trade

Economics Guides and Major Sites

• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics (U.S)
• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics (Europe)
• FindLaw's Law and Economics - links to working papers, journals, bibliographies, directories of economists, associations, centers, academic programs, and publishers.
• Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists on the Internet
• Jim Ratliff has left the U of Arizona, and his popular guides to Game Theory Resources on the Net and Economic Resources on the Net are not available.
• NetEc is a volunteer effort to improve the communication of research in Economics via electronic media. It consists of:
  • Information on printed working papers on BibEc
  • Data about electronic working papers on WoPEc,
  • Code for Economics and Econometrics on CodEc,
  • World Wide Web Resources in Economics on WebEc.
• Business and Economy links from Yahoo
• Economics gopher at Sam Houston State University
• RiskWeb (RISKNet discussion group and web site; Risk Management & Insurance)
• Glogal Risk Assessments, Inc. - includes a risk literature survey covering 1963 to date, and information about their journal, Global Risk Assess- ments: Issues, Concepts and Applications.
• FINWeb (Financial Economics WWW server)
• American Law andEconomics Association
• Canadian Law and Economics Association
• European Association for Law and Economics
• Latin American Law & Economics Asociation
• American Economics Association home page and membership directory
• Canadian Economics Association
• ASILIELG International Economic Law Links (started by Joel Trachtman)
• Economics Links from Hieros Gamos, a worldwide legal directory

Electronic Discussions

recommended by Lyonette Louis-Jacques, the author of Law Lists.

• ANTITRUST POLICY On-Line Discussion (and other information concerning economic research, policy, cases; mergers, price fixing, vertical restraints) http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/
  antitrust/discussion/
  http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Owen/froeb/
  antitrust/antitrust.html

• ANTITRUST (list limited to teachers and those with research interests in antitrust, trade regulation, competition law and related subjects; subscription subject to approval by owner; the list is co-sponsored by the Dickinson School of Law and the Antitrust Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)) Send the following message to TDSL-L@DSL.EDU : subscribe antitrust your name, your position, your institution

• ASILIELG on LISTSERVER@CALI.KENTLAW.EDU (list of the International Economic Law Group of the American Society of International Law)

• ECONLAW on LISTPROC@GMU.EDU (U.S.-based (George Mason University) Economic Analysis of Law list)

• FORENSICECONOMICS-L on LISTSERV@LISTSERV.WUACC.EDU (or listserv@acc.wuacc.edu)

• IPE on LISTPROC@CSF.COLORADO.EDU (International Political Economy; archived at http://csf.colorado.edu/ipe/ )

• General Usenet newsgroups for economics discussions exist: sci.econ ; sci.econ.research ; alt.politics.economics

• More information about these and other lists and newsgroups is available in "Lyo's Law Lists" at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/law-lists

Economics Journals

• JSTOR - Page images and full text of economics and history journals, from the first issue until 1992. Titles include the American Economic Review, Econometrica, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, the Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. (Restricted to University of Chicago and other JSTOR members)

• Economics journals on Westlaw

• ECONbase

• Elsevier ScienceDirect (Choose "group-wide login") - full text of economics, business, finance, management, and science journals from Elsevier Science

• EconLit on FirstSearch ( Web version | Telnet version | Westlaw )

• ABI/INFORM on FirstSearch ( Web version | Telnet version )

• Bibliographies of law and economics journals from Findlaw - tables of contents and links to home pages for the Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Legal Studies, and other law & econ journals

• Journal of Law & Economics home page

• Journal of Legal Studies home page - includes sample articles

• Antitrust Law & Economics Review (selected articles and tables of contents from 1967-1995)

• European Journal of Law and Economics (table of contents)

• International Review of Law and Economics (table of contents) (see also the EconBase journals service

• The Journal of Law, Economics and Organization

Working Papers

• The Legal Scholarship Network's Law and Economics Abstracts The LSN is an affiliate of the Social Science Research Network, like the Financial Economics Network (FEN), the Accounting Research Network (ARN) and the Economics Research Network (ERN). Faculty of the Law School may subscribe to any or all of the LSN and ERN journals; contact Judith Wright.

• Law and Economics Working Papers from FindLaw

• Economics Working Paper archive at Washington University

• NetEc Universal Economics Working Papers Index

• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

• USC Law Center Faculty Working Papers (abstracts)

• Law & Economics Working Papers from the Law School, The University of Chicago.

• Economic Beliefs and Behaviour programme (financed by the UK ESRC) discussion papers

Government Economic Information

• U.S. Department of Commerce

• Economics and Statistics Administration

• Bureau of the Census

• Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes

• STAT-USA (formerly the Office of Business Analysis) offers international trade and export information from the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB), domestic economic releases and business leads from the Economic Bulletin Board (EBB), and news releases and information from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), including the Survey of Current Business.

• Bureau of Economic Anaysis (BEA)

• Economic Indicators Archive from the Wall Street Journal ($) - statistical reports issued by government agencies and business research groups that economists use to forecast business conditions.

• White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room

• White House Social Statistics Briefing Room

• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System - with the Fed's calendar, Beige Book, and links to other Federal Reserve System web sites

• The President's FY 1997 Budget

• GPO Access has the text of the Budget and the Economic Report of the President

• FinanceNet (created by the Vice President's National Performance Review)

• The Bureau of the Public Debt ( Treasury Department ) has T-Bill, Note and Bond auction results.

Financial Institutions

• Center for the Study of Central Banks/Central Banks Online - a project of the NYU Law School, hosted by ARTFL at the University of Chicago

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• The FDIC's Institution Directory System contains "demographic data and financial profiles of each FDIC-insured depository institution derived from quarterly reports filed with Federal regulators"

Think Tanks

• American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

• Brookings Institution

• Cato Institute

• The Heartland Institute

• The Heritage Foundation

• Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace

• Institute of International Education

• Organisation for International Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• RAND Publications

• The Reason Foundation

• The Urban Institute

• World Bank

• Think Tank with Benn Wattenberg - transcripts of the PBS Public Affairs show whose guests are affiliated with think tanks

• Policy.COM is a roundup of Think Tank research, with longer lists of liberal and conservative think tanks and Advocacy Organizations.

• For think tanks not listed above, check the NIRA 1996 World Directory of Think Tanks from the National Institute for Research Advancement (Japan), with information about 250 think tanks, and links to web pages when available.

SEC Filings and Company Background

• NYU Edgar - a continuation of the Edgar Pilot Project formerly hosted at Town Hall - sponsored by Disclosure

• NYU Edgar - another server

• Edgar Site at the SEC

• Edgar Online

• InvesText Research Bank Web - investment research reports and industry analysis. It contains research from over 450 investment banks and 150 trade associations as well as fundamental financial information from Moody's Investors Service.

• Hoover's Online ($)

• Thomas Register ($)

• Companies Online - from Dun & Bradstreet and Lycos

Stock Exchanges and Financial Markets

• Bloomberg Personal Markets

• The Motley Fool

• Yahoo! Quote

• CNNfn headlines, Markets, and Stock Quotes.

• Let's Figure it Out - basic personal finance analysis tools

• Web Finance - e-zine for brkers, with links to 50 brokers' web sites.

• PC Quote

• StockMaster offers historical quotes

• Standard & Poor's Equity Investor Services

• Infomanage International - links to information about international stocks, currency rates, bonds, futures, and technology stocks.

• American Association of Individual Investors - information about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokers, and basic information about financial planning and portfolio management for individual investors.

• New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

• NASDAQ - offers a variety of quotes for single or up to five stocks

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange

• Chicago Board of Trade

• American Stock Exchange

• Chicago Stock Exchange

Selected by Bill Schwesig, Reference Librarian and Bibliographer for Common Law, D'Angelo Law Library, and Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Foreign and International Law Librarian, D'Angelo Law Library and Lecturer in Law at the Law School.