Research Guides: NYU Business Library: Economics &amp; Statistics

Economic and Statistical Resources

Africa Development Indicators
Contains over 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators. Results can be scaled, mapped, and charted.

Bloomberg This link opens in a new window
Bloomberg is a terminal-bound financial services platform with advanced analytical and data functions. To learn more about how to find and use NYU's Bloomberg terminals, please consult our Bloomberg guide. The Bloomberg terminal includes full text access to Bloomberg.com via the BBG command.
Must be accessed on-site at NYU's Bobst (Greenwich Village), Brause (Midtown), Dibner (Downtown Brooklyn), Shanghai, and Abu Dhabi Libraries.
C2ER Regional Economic Data Toolkit This link opens in a new window
Includes 4 searchable and downloadable US-focused datasets: cost of living index, state incentives, state expenditures, and economic diversity index. These resources are designed to help researchers better understand economic development progress and policies. The cost of living index search tool allows users to compare the cost of living across 300+ US metro areas, and includes Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. C2ER's data and methodology are reviewed by an advisory board composed of academic researchers and government officials.
CEIC Data This link opens in a new window
CEIC Data provides economic research on emerging and developed markets by economists around the globe. Users can navigate the data portal to create "insights," or data extracts on indicators associated with trade and economy.
Users are advised to register for an account with CEIC before creating data extracts. NYU users who navigate from the library page may access the resource by clicking "Guest login" on the resource homepage.
Complete World Development Report Online This link opens in a new window
Complete World Development Report Online contains every World Development Report published by the World Bank since the first report was released in 1978.
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Sage Data aggregates datasets sourced from reputable public and private organizations, such as OECD, China Data Online, the United Nations, and the U.S. Census. It covers topics across many subject areas, including education, population and income, industry, commerce, trade, housing and construction. Users can create custom extracts and download files in delimited, SAS, or shapefile formats.
Data.Census.Gov This link opens in a new window
Data.Census.Gov, the interface that replaces American FactFinder, is the portal to US Census data and includes data from the American Community Survey, Population Estimates, Economic Census, and Annual Economic Surveys. Users can generate simple visualizations, extract reports, and explore census data by theme or topic.
Datastream This link opens in a new window
This resource provides a comprehensive historical database service by LSEG that encompasses daily prices, trading volumes, and return indices, updated at the end of every trading day, for equities in countries around the world, data on bonds, options and other derivatives, mutual funds (unit trusts), market indices, exchange rates, macroeconomic variables, and corporate financial data.
Business Ready This link opens in a new window
Business Ready is a data collection and analysis project of the World Bank Group to assess the business and investment climate worldwide, accompanied by an annual corporate flagship report. It is organized according to topics essential for private sector development that correspond to various stages of the life cycle of a firm and its participation in the market while opening, operating (or expanding), and closing (or reorganizing) a business. The topics are Business Entry, Business Location, Utility Services, Labor, Financial Services, International Trade, Taxation, Dispute Resolution, Market Competition, and Business Insolvency. It replaces and improves upon the World Bank Group’s earlier Doing Business project.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
EconLit is published by the American Economic Association and indexes and abstracts a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Coverage dates: 1969 to present.
EIU Viewpoint This link opens in a new window
Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) country analysis and forecasts covers over 200 countries and highlight political, economic and business developments in all significant markets, both established and emerging. Includes access to the "CountryData" and "Market Indicators and Forecasts" modules.
For access to economic statistics, analysis, and forecasts for China's 31 provinces and 292 largest cities, click 'More' in the top right corner.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
Emerging Markets Information Service contains articles, news, financial filings for publicly held companies, and analyst reports in emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
Requires NetID and password.
Europa World Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Europa World Yearbook provides profiles for over 250 countries and territories. Profiles include political and economic information as well as statistics and information on religion, media and press.
Eurostat This link opens in a new window
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, provides statistics at the European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions. Users can bulk download tables and access full metadata and documentation for data that measures indicators across a range of socio-demographic and economic indicators.
FitchConnect This link opens in a new window
Formerly known as BMI Research, FitchConnect contains proprietary data, analysis, ratings, rankings and forecasts covering many countries and industries. Their research features country risk, financial markets analysis, and industry research.
Select 'Sign in at New York University" to access the database.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) This link opens in a new window
Search across a range of encyclopedias, dictionaries and more.
Finaeon This link opens in a new window
Formerly Global Financial Data, global coverage of economic and financial time-series and historical data. It includes data on bonds, commodities, interest rates, stock markets and indices, futures, exchange rates, GDP, prices, and unemployment.
Global Financial Development This link opens in a new window
Global Financial Development offers external debt and financial flow data for the countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. Indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
Global Financial Development This link opens in a new window
Global Financial Development offers external debt and financial flow data for the countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. Indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Historical Statistics of the United State is a source for downloadable quantitative data that pertains to America's past. Topics of data range from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America. Users can access reports, essays, and extract data into Excel tables.
IMF Data This link opens in a new window
IMF Data provides access to International financial statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments statistics (BOPS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS), and Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database
Please sign up for an invididual log-in to download datasets and access certain features.
IndiaStat This link opens in a new window
IndiaStat provides access to statistics on health, higher education, agricultural and industrial production information, economic statistics, and tourism related data in India. The database also contains information bank and financial institutions, companies, co-operatives, crime and law, population, foreign trade, labour and workforce, housing, media, power, transport, urban-rural settlements, and economy.
To access this resource, click on Log-in, and then click IP address to authenticate. Access is limited to one user at a time.
Emerging Markets (GlobalCapital) This link opens in a new window
Emerging Markets from GlobalCapital is a news and data service covering capital markets of East and Central Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America as well as topics of Islamic Finance.
Mergent Bond Viewer This link opens in a new window
Mergent Bond Viewer provides access to bond data, including both issuer and bond level terms and condition data, US taxable bonds, municipal bonds and retail notes.
If the limit of 10 concurrent users has been reached, please retry to access at a later time.

The New Palgrave dictionary of Economics online
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics contains the full text of the 8 volume print edition with continual updates.
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edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume

OECD This link opens in a new window
OECD (formerly OECD iLibrary) is the online portal for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OCED content includes book collections, policy reports, statistical abstracts, and the OECD.Stat tool, with which users can create custom extracts from the OECD data warehouse.
Oxford Economics This link opens in a new window
Oxford Economics offers tools to help with quantitative analysis and rigorous economic forecasting. Using an evidence-based approach to economic analysis to help with investment, policy and market decisions. Click on the subscriptions tab to access NYU content. NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.
NYU does not have access to Economic Models, Global Industry Models, City and Regions, or UK Economics.

We are currently experiencing remote access issues. If you are not on campus, please use VPN to access.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Euromonitor Passport (formerly GMID) provides international market intelligence, including economic statistics, on industries, countries, and consumers.
Requires Net ID and password.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap is a web mapping platform that contains data on demographics, real estate, city crime rates, health, schools, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investments. Users can create online, interactive maps that can be shared and can upload their own point data to be juxtaposed with the data PolicyMap contains.
Political Risk Yearbook and CountryData This link opens in a new window
Political Risk Yearbook provides political risk reports for the current year for many countries. CountryData allows users to generate exportable tables with political risk rankings and economic indicators for current and historical years, as well as current forecasts, for various countries.
Country Data is available on campus only. Use NYU VPN for off-campus access.
Moody's CRE (formerly REIS) This link opens in a new window
Provides in-depth commercial real estate property data and analytics, including vacancy rates, rent levels, cap rates, new construction, rent and sales comps, valuation estimates, and capital market trends. Includes quarterly updated trends and forecasts of rent, vacancy, and inventory for apartment, office, retail, warehouse, R&D, and additional sectors in up to 275 US metropolitan areas and more than 6,300 markets and segments. Formerly known as REIS
Use your NetID email - not an email alias - to log in. On the Moody's site, select the "Login with email" option -- not the "Create an account" option -- and enter your NetID email on the ensuing screen.
SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
SimplyAnalytics is a web-based mapping, analytics and data visualization program providing data variables. Users have access to demographics, marketing data, consumer behavior (purchasing and product usage data), market segments, health, and business points for States, Congressional Districts, Counties, Cities/Places, ZIP Codes, Census Tracts and Block Groups. Users can also export data, maps, reports and shapefiles for use outside of SimplyAnalytics. Now includes Nielsen Scarborough Data Module.
Users are not required to log-in with a user name and password; however, in order to save your work, it is recommended that you create your own user account. SimplyMap user accounts are still functional in the SimplyAnalytics interface.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer contains access to U.S. Census data dating back to 1790. Users can create maps and embed them as objects or download static images.
To access Social Explorer, create a user account after signing in to NYU's SSO. If you have questions about authenticating your NYU Social Explorer account from off-campus, please contact Data Services.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista aggregates data on markets, industry, politics, economics, and population. Users can export datasets in a variety of formats. Sources include trade publications, market and opinion research institutions, government sources, business and economic databases, reference publications, media sources, and scholarly articles. Include Statista's "Global Consumer Survey", which helps marketers understand consumer behavior and brand interaction.
Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
Statistical Insight provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text. This resource includes all content from the American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS), including Statistical Datasets. Dates of coverage: 1973 to present.
UN Comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics This link opens in a new window
UN comtrade: United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics contains the annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country.
To access premium subscriptions for bulk downloads and API features, you'll need to create an account for the initial setup. Please follow the instructions here.
UNdata This link opens in a new window
UNdata is the data download portal of the United Nations. Users can search by country, year, and indicator and create custom data extracts to download. UNData also includes an API that developers can use to query, display results externally, and download to local storage for further analysis. The data portal includes datasets from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), World Health Organization (WHO), and more.
UN iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The United Nations iLibrary provides access to publications, journals, data, and series published by the United Nations Secretariat, and its funds and programs. The database offers features such as integrated search results, granular content, a citation tool, DOI identification, and multilingual content.
DataBank (World Bank) This link opens in a new window
DataBank is a portal to access each of the World Bank datasets, including its World Development Indicators, Global Financial Database, Poverty and Equity Database, Gender Statistics, and more. Users can create custom extracts and export data into various tabular formats.

World Development Indicators
WDI Online is the premiere data source on the global economy. It contains statistical data for over 800 development indicators and time series data from 1960-2007 for 227 economies. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, charted, and mapped.

WRDS: Wharton Research Data Services This link opens in a new window
WRDS is a data platform that specializes in historical financial information for banks, government bonds, stock exchanges, and major companies. It is intended solely for academic research and teaching purposes. Popular datasets include Compustat, CRSP, TAQ, and IBES. First time users should consult our WRDS guide for help.
Account or on-site "Day Pass" required for access. WRDS access is restricted to currently enrolled/employed members of NYU. No exceptions.

Journal/Newspaper Articles

ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
ABI/INFORM features full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business, and economics periodicals. Researchers can locate country- and industry-focused reports, and its international focus provides a picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
Access World News provides the html full text and, for some titles, the pdf "as printed" visual representation, of articles from a variety of national and international news sources, including newspapers, digital-native news websites, television and radio transcripts, blogs, college and university newspapers, journals, magazines, and some audio and video. Most international titles are English language. Dates of coverage vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.
Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window
Alternative Press Index (API) is a database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Coverage dates begin in 1991, for earlier content use the Alternative Press Index Archive database.

Barron's
Barron's provides full-text coverage of business, finance, and economics news. Dates of coverage:1988-Present.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Business Source Complete is a full text database of articles from popular, scholarly, and trade publications. Subjects covered include management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Dates of coverage: 1886 to present.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new window
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes scholarship, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, case studies for teaching, and policy briefs.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
EconLit is published by the American Economic Association and indexes and abstracts a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application. Coverage dates: 1969 to present.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) This link opens in a new window
Emerging Markets Information Service contains articles, news, financial filings for publicly held companies, and analyst reports in emerging countries in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe.
Requires NetID and password.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
Ethnic NewsWatch is an interdisciplinary, multi-lingual (English, Spanish, French, German, and more) database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority, and native presses. Full-text content ranges from the 1940s to present day.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva is a resource for U.S. and international newspapers (html full text only, no images or print layout versions), news transcripts, trade journals, newsletters, industry snapshots, and market data charts for recent stock prices. Coverage dates vary from title to title, but primarily span the late 20th century to present.
Requires NetID login from on or off campus.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream contains the html full text of hundreds of U.S. and international news sources. Coverage dates vary from title to title, but generally span the most recent five to ten years.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to scholarly journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to journal articles, users can access book chapters, ebooks, and primary source documents.
New York Times, 1980-present (via ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of the New York Times, 1980 to present.
The New York Times with Index (18512015) This link opens in a new window
The New York Times with Index database provides access to the full text, "as printed" edition of The New York Times, including images and advertisements. Coverage begins with the first edition published in 1851 and extends to three years from the present day (due to a rolling embargo).
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe) provides access to full-text newspapers (U.S. and some international), news wires, transcripts, and trade journals.
Please clear your browser's cache and cookies before attempting to access this resource.
OmniFile Full Text Mega This link opens in a new window
OmniFile Full Text Mega is a Multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six collections: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Dates of coverage: 1982 to present.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
PAIS International contains journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies for public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is a large, multidisciplinary database with over 11,000 titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text. It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively in this product including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.
Russian Central Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Russian Central Newspapers contains the most important Russian newspapers currently being being published in Moscow. Searching can be done across newspapers.
Search in Cyrillic or in Library of Congress English transliteration.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is composed of a number of specialized research networks in the social sciences. Topics covered by networks include accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). The SSRN eLibrary consists of abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection of downloadable full text documents in pdf format.
In order to subscribe to the NYU network one must create an account with their NYU email address. Please note that when accessing through off-site connection you may encounter a login screen which indicates you can 'login anonymously.' If you reach this choose to login anonymously and you will be granted access.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal literature in the social sciences. Dates of coverage: 1900 to present.

Wall Street Journal (ProQuest)
Provides full-text access to the Wall Street Journal. Dates of coverage: 1984 to present. NOTE: This is a text only database; does not provide PDF images of the newspaper.

The Wire China This link opens in a new window
The Wire is a digital news magazine dedicated to understanding and explaining one of the biggest stories of our time: China's economic rise, and its influence on global business, finance, trade, labor and the environment.
WorldCat - FirstSearch (OCLC) This link opens in a new window
Search for books and more in libraries in the U.S. and around the world. Indicates when NYU Libraries holds a copy of a book and shows you nearby libraries with holdings.

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