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  Resources for Economists on the Internet, Vol. 4, No. 2, September, 1999

            Editor: Bill Goffe <[email protected]>
            Editorial Assistant: Elise Braden <[email protected]>

                           Part 13 of 20

  This guide, sponsored by the American Economic Association, lists
  more than 1,000 resources on the Internet of interest to academic and
  practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all
  resources are also described.

  Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE) is a copyrighted work
  of the American Economic Association (the "AEA"). Permission to make
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  files don't travel well on Usenet. For other locations of this guide,
  see the section titled "1.5 Where to Obtain This Guide" in part 2.


10.0 Organizations & Associations

10.1.0 Academic Research Organizations and Institutes

10.1.1 Econ. Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World
      (EDIRC)

  EDIRC, a very useful resource, lists more than 4,000 sites of
  interest to economists. Many are of course in this category.

  # http://ideas.uqam.ca/EDIRC/index.html


10.1.2 Austrian Economics Program at New York Univ.

  This site offers information on their program: their research
  interests, their teaching emphasis, summer seminars, colloquium and
  their publications. There is also information on their faculty and
  graduate students.

  # http://www.econ.nyu.edu/dept/austrian/


10.1.3 Canadian International Labour Network (CILN)

  This organization is devoted to "effects of labour-market laws and
  institutions (e.g., labour legislation, unions, unemployment
  insurance) on labour-market outcomes (e.g., the distribution of
  wages, the level and structure of unemployment, and the distribution
  of resources within the family)." It is a joint project of the
  Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (SSHRC),
  McMaster University, the Universities of British Columbia and
  Toronto, and Human Resources Development Canada. One aim is to
  develop large databases for numerous countries in this area. Besides
  information on the project, you can read about future conferences.

  # http://labour.ciln.mcmaster.ca/


10.1.4 Carolina Population Center

  This organization studies population issues in a broad context. In
  fact, a minority of the staff is demographers; thus the work is quite
  interdisciplinary. Besides reading about the center, information
  about some of their projects (sometimes even including data) is
  available, as well as some working papers.

  # http://www.cpc.unc.edu/


10.1.5 Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA)

  This center works in three areas: macroeconomic policy, inequality
  and poverty, and globalization. Among the available items are their
  newsletter, working papers, information on projects, data resources,
  and information on their staff.

  # http://www.newschool.edu/cepa/


10.1.6 Center for the Study of Population

  This Center, affiliated with Florida State University, is wholly
  dedicated to teaching, research and service in the field of
  demography. The site contains information on the Center's members
  and students; the Masters Program and the undergraduate Certificate
  Program; abstracts and ordering information for working papers; and
  links to the Southern Demographic Association, other Population
  Centers, online journals, and working papers.

  # http://mailer.fsu.edu/~popctr/


*  10.1.7 Center for Research on Economic Fluctuations and Employment
      (CREFE)

  The CREFE seeks to "shed new light on the dynamic interaction between
  the labor market and economic fluctuations." Main research themes
*  are: labor market dynamics and fluctuations; financial
*  macroeconomics and labor; labor market structure; economic policies
*  and practical reforms; and international fluctuations. Material at
  this site includes information on its objectives, its members,
  research programs and grants, publications, a newsletter (to be
  distributed electronically), information on conferences and seminars,
  and its downloadable working papers.

  # http://ideas.uqam.ca/CREFE/index.html


10.1.8 Economic Science Laboratory, Univ. of Arizona

  This site describes the basic idea of experimental economics, working
  papers in the area, and provides links to other sites of interest. In
  addition, the software area has several packages that would be useful
  for both teaching and research in this area.

  # http://www.econlab.arizona.edu/


10.1.9 Game Theory Society

  The Game Theory Society is an international society dedicated to the
  advancement and application of game theory. This site describes the
  goals of the society, a list of officers and charter members, an
  enrollment form, membership dues, and publications information. The
  Society will sponsor two official journals that will be included in
  the price of membership:  "Games and Economic Behavior" and the
  "International Journal of Game Theory."

  # http://center.kub.nl/gts/


10.1.10 Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE)

  This Institute seeks to provide an improved understanding of the past
  and future trajectories of economic development and the many contexts
  of economic systems; and assist both public and private sectors of
  nations as they attempt to develop policies that promote
  sustainability. The site provides information on the Institute and
  its members; and publications, research, and policy work, some of
  which is available on-line at no cost.

  # http://www.tufts.edu/gdae/


10.1.11 Hoover Institution

  This site describes the many activities of this institution. This
  includes a broad overview, material from their newsletter, press
  releases, their catalog of printed material, and extensive material
  on their different programs. It also includes the "Hoover Digest:
  Research and Opinion on Public Policy. In addition, they have fairly
  extensive biographies of their scholars.

  # http://www-Hoover.Stanford.edu/


10.1.12 Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

  This Institute is a non-partisan, non-profit research center that
  focuses on the issues surrounding social inequality and poverty in
  the United States. Current research examines welfare reform and the
  development of a new poverty measure. The publications of the IRP are
  available for download here, and information on ordering the print
  versions is also available. The site also provides information about
  the Institute, staff and affiliates, and links to poverty-related
  resources.

  # http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/


10.1.13 Jerome Levy Economics Institute

  This institute, independently endowed, is affiliated with Bard
  College. Its purpose is described in its bylaws: "To pursue knowledge
  of economics that will enable nations to enlarge personal freedom,
  promote justice, and maintain stable economies with full employment
  and rising standards of living." You can read about their Forecasting
  Center (which is in the spirit of Jerome Levy's original work), their
  research programs, numerous conferences and events, and their
  publications. You can also read about their mission.

  # http://www.levy.org/


10.1.14 Learning and Experimental Economics Projects of Santa Cruz
       (LEEPS)

  This organization is located at UC Santa Cruz. It has been working
  with experimental economics since 1986, and is noted for its emphasis
  on learning, its use of hundreds of Unix workstations, and its small
  scale. Here you can read about the people involved with the
  organization, the projects themselves, and information on their
  papers.

  # http://cash.ucsc.edu/


10.1.15 Ludwig von Mises Institute

  This organization, founded in 1982, is located at Auburn University.
  At this site, you can read "The Austrian Economics Newsletter," and
  back issues of "The Free Market" (their monthly policy newsletter
  sent to Institute members) and the table of contents of "The Review
  of Austrian Economics" (a Kluwer journal). You can also read about
  how to join and support the Institute, about upcoming events, how to
  order books from the Institute, and information on a fellowship.
  Finally, you can find introductory material about the Austrian
  school.

  # http://www.mises.org


10.1.16 NetEc

  NetEc is an umbrella organization for a number of projects that are
  useful to academic economists. BibEc is a database on printed working
  papers, WoPEc holds data about electronic working papers, CodEc
  collects code for Economics and Econometrics, WebEc is an extensive
  JEL-based database of of World Wide Web resources in Economics, HoPEc
  holds home page papers in Economics and JokEc contains Jokes about
  economists and economics. Two associated projects of NetEc are this
  guide, and Christian Zimmermann's EDIRC, a list of Economics
  Departments, Institutions and Research Centers. All these projects
  are available on three sites.

  NetEc is a volunteer effort to make available and accessible
  materials on the Internet for economists. It performs a number of
  very valuable and useful efforts. More volunteers are gladly
  accepted. (Thomas Krichel kindly wrote this entry.)

  # http://netec.wustl.edu/NetEc.html
  # http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html
  # http://netec.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/NetEc.html


10.1.17 West Virginia Regional Research Institute

  This site provides a variety of material for those interested in
  regional science. It includes vitaes on the senior researchers in the
  Institute, overviews of research projects, information on
  publications, substantial information on "The International Regional
  Science Review (including abstracts of back and forthcoming issues),"
  and the same for the "Journal of Appalachian Studies." information on
  their mailing lists, and connections to related gophers.

  # http://www.wvu.edu/~regional/index.htm


10.1.18 Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)

  This site contains a substantial amount of information for those
  interested in water as a resource. It include the Water Resources
  Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the U.S. Geological Survey,
  a directory of water resources experts, an extensive calendar of
  "water" events, and information on the National Institutes for Water
  Resources (NIWR), information on other water organizations, water
  databases and archives, and links to other water organizations.

  # http://www.uwin.siu.edu/
  # gopher://uwin.c-wr.siu.edu:70/1/


10.1.19 Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE)

  "Rather than modeling man as an ideally rational, optimizing agent in
  the style of neoclassical economics, the Centre pursues a programme
  of pure and applied research directed at the manner in which real
  people adjust their behavior over time as their circumstances change.
  The overall objective is to promote the study of models of
  interactive learning with a view to providing a new foundational
  basis for modeling in economics and related social sciences. We see
  game theory as a largely unexploited focus for such study." At this
  site you'll find an introduction to the Centre (including their staff
  and divisions), working papers, forthcoming events, and information
  on how to reach them.

  # http://ada.econ.ucl.ac.uk/


10.1.20 Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)

  This organization at the London School of Economics "is
  inter-disciplinary, with researchers from economics, industrial
  relations, psychology, sociology and management. The research
  produced focuses on a wide range of areas, notably labour markets,
  unemployment, wages, human resources, international trade and the
  transition economies." More specifically, "The CEP ... primarily aims
  to examine: firstly, why some firms persistently succeed while others
  do not; and secondly, at the level of the nation, why some countries'
  economies work better than others." The director is Richard Layard.

  Available material includes information on their publications,
  working papers, schedule of events, information on conferences,
  lectures and seminars, extensive material on their research programs,
  and databases.

  # http://cep.lse.ac.uk/


10.1.21 Centre for Economic Forecasting

  This organization at the London Business School operates a
  forecasting model of the U.K. and other major OECD countries, and
  also engages more generally in economic research. Besides information
  on their activities, they also provide information on their recent
  discussion papers, their quarterly "Economic Outlook," and their
  forecasts.

  # http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/cef/


10.1.22 Centre for Policy Modelling

  This Centre focuses on "decision-making in environments which are too
  complex to be analyzed by models based on standard economic and
  related analytical techniques. This has been made possible by the
  design and implementation of a computer-based modeling language
  called SDML (Strictly Declarative Modelling Language)." At this site
  you can find background material on SDML, details on several projects
  that use it, and their discussion papers.

  # http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/


10.1.23 ESRC Macroeconomic Modelling Bureau (U.K.)

  This organization studies a number of macro models of the U.K.
  economy. To quote, "The main purpose of the Bureau is to improve the
  accessibility of macroeconomic models of the UK economy, to promote
  general understanding of the properties of these models, and to
  undertake its own comparative and methodological research. The
  current portfolio comprises six models, two of which are "official"
  models (those of the Bank of England and HM Treasury); the other four
  are constructed and maintained by independent groups (London Business
  School, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Oxford
  Economic Forecasting and Strathclyde University). All of these are
  implemented on the University's mainframe computer.

  Currently, one can learn about the organization, read recent
  newsletters, and watch a demonstration of PC-Ready Reckoner, a PC
  program which summarizes three of their models. It should be quite
  useful as a teaching aid.

  # http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/Economics/MMB/
  # Information: <[email protected]>


10.1.24 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

  This organization focus on issues of the U.K. and world economy. They
  produce both NiDEM (a UK Model with both short and long term features
  with some 400 variables) and NiGEM (a world model with roughly 1,000
  variables). They also offer information on their discussion papers,
  their annual report, and information about their "Economic Review."
  Finally, there is information on the Institute itself, its programs,
  and its staff.

  # http://www.niesr.ac.uk/


10.1.25 Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment
       (CESSE)

  This center, affiliated with the Universiti Libre de Bruxelles,
  studies such topics as environmental economics and sustainable
  development. You can read about their various activities and studies,
  as well as bibliographical material on some of their papers. They
  also offer material about their staff. Finally, they provide a very
  extensive set of links to related sites.

  # http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/english/cesse.html


10.1.26 Centre for Economic Research (CCSO)

  "CCSO is a research group of economists and econometricians of the
  Economics Department of the University of Groningen and the
  University of Twente. The group works on the field of empirical
  general economics and has developed a number of large-scale
  macroeconometric models." They offer information about themselves
  (including their participants), working papers, a list of their
  articles and books, information on upcoming seminars and workshops,
  and information about their GUESS package ("for the analysis of
  large-scale non-linear macroeconomic models;" it runs on PCs).

  # http://www.eco.rug.nl/ccso/homeccso.html


10.1.27 Center for the Study of Law and Economics

  This organization, a part of the Universit�t des Saarlandes, offers
  information about its current activities, the people involved with
  it, their discussion paper series, and links to related sites.

  # http://www.uni-sb.de/rewi/fb2/csle/


10.1.28 Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO)

  This organization is a joint project of the University of Economics
  and Business Administration (Vienna, Austria), the Slovak Academy of
  Sciences (Bratislava, CSFR), and the University of North Carolina at
  Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC). As befitting the changes in that part
  of the world, it emphasizes interdisciplinary research. Of interest
  to economists is their data on Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria,
  Hungary, Poland and Romania (some of the data is of a summary
  nature).

  # gopher://olymp.wu-wien.ac.at:70/11/.cerro.ind


10.1.29 European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations
       (ERCOMER)

  This organization studies migration in Europe. At their searchable
  site, you can read about their staff, funding, training for
  researchers, their meetings and conferences, and material about their
  books.

  # http://www.ercomer.org/


10.1.30 Experimental Economics Laboratory, Univ. of Trento, Italy

  This lab is using the web to communicate its results in "economics,
  computation and organizational behavior." Currently, it describes
  their approach to these issues, along with a list of recent
  publications, information on lab members, and their international
  collaborators. In the near future, you will be able to play economic
  games here.

  # http://black.cs.unitn.it/


10.1.31 IKE Group (Aalborg Univ., Denmark)

  This organization, whose title roughly translates into English as
  "international competitiveness," has been in existence since about
  1980. As the title implies, they study economic change in a variety
  of ways. Currently, they have some 22 members.

  At their web site, you'll find information on this organization (in
  terms of their annual reports), and their members' research interests
  and publications.

  # http://www.business.auc.dk/ike/


10.1.32 Institute of International Economic Relations (IIER)

  This Institute is concerned with the process of integrating Greece
  into Europe and the effect of such integration on Greek enterprises;
  promoting Greek business throughout Europe and the Mediterranean;
  analyzing Greek foreign trade; and establishing interest in Greek
  exports and foreign investment. This site provides information about
  the Institute's aims, their board, past dates and titles of
  conferences and seminars, publications lists, and occasional papers.

  # http://idec.gr/iier/aims.htm


10.1.33 Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

  This research institute was founded by Nobel winner Gunnar Myrdal in
  1962 and is affiliated with the Stockholm University, with financial
  support from the government of Sweden. This site offers information
  on the Institute's current areas of research:  macroeconomic analysis
  of open economies, foreign trade, and general economic theory and
  methodology. This site also includes information on the staff and
  visitors to the Institute; job recruitment; seminars and conferences
  (recent seminar papers can be downloaded); and the Stockholm
  University Graduate Studies in Economics program.

  # http://www.iies.su.se


10.1.34 Groningen Growth and Development Centre

  "The Groningen Growth and Development Centre is a research group of
  economists and economic historians based at the Economics Department
  of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The international
  group carries out research on comparative analysis of levels of
  economic performance and differences in growth rates in the world
  economy." The site provides information on the Centre and its
  members, research, online versions of their latest newsletter and
  working papers, listings of past working papers and researchers
  publications, and seminar and conference information. The site also
  includes information about the "International Comparisons of Output
  and Productivity Project," a research project started in 1983, which
  carries out industry of origin comparisons of sectoral output and
  productivity across 30 countries in Asia, Eastern and Western Europe,
  and North and South America.

  # http://www.eco.rug.nl/ggdc/homeggdc.html


10.1.35 Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and
       Technology (MERIT)

  This institute, which studies technological change, offers a variety
  of different services on their web and ftp servers. One can get their
  working papers (in PostScript), read about their mission, their PhD
  program (run in conjunction with INTECH) and staff. You can also find
  out about their upcoming events, and look at aggregate data on trends
  on science and technology. They also offer a program for time series
  management, MADMAN (Menhir's Arithmetical Database MANager).

  # http://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl
  # ftp://meritbbs.rulimburg.nl


10.1.36 Nijenrode Forum for Economic Research (NYFER)

  This organization, affiliated with Nijenrode University in the
  Netherlands, is oriented towards Dutch macro issues that are
  difficult to deal with using traditional models. As one would expect,
  there is a heavy policy and forecasting emphasis. The information
  they offer includes press releases, information on their
  publications, ordering information for their offerings, and material
  about themselves. Befitting their emphasis, much of the material is
  in Dutch.

  # http://www.nyfer.nl/


10.1.37 Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU)

  This group, located at the University of Kent at Canterbury, works on
  health topics. Specifically, "The core of the research is the
  examination of equity and efficiency: how resources can be made to
  produce the best outcomes, and how needs can be assessed and met." As
  you might expect, much of the research involves health-economics.

  At this site you can find information on the staff, material on their
  books, monographs, journal article, book chapters, and discussion
  papers (more than 1,000 of the latter; only available in hardcopy),
  their Bulletin, details on their current projects, and upcoming
  events and seminars.

  # http://snipe.ukc.ac.uk/PSSRU/


10.1.38 Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory

  This interdisciplinary research center (at the Hebrew University of
  Jerusalem) focuses, as one would expect, on rational decision making.
  An area of particular interest is game theory. Besides the obvious
  connections to economics, it has "an important impact on such diverse
  areas as evolutionary biology, political science, computer science,
  social psychology, law, statistics, philosophy and the foundations of
  mathematics." This site offers information about itself (such as
  projects, members, visitors, and staff). There is additional
  information on its summer school, publications and events.

  # http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~ranb/


10.1.39 Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), Univ. of NSW, Sydney

  This organization studies a "wide range of social issues" in
  Australia. There is some focus on "identifying those individuals and
  groups whose needs are especially great." To carry this out, they
  undertake a wide range of activities, including publications,
  reports, and seminars.

  At this site they offer information on themselves, their projects and
  research agendas, newsletters, some reports, publications, and title
  of publications.

  # http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au


10.1.40 Theoretical Research Institute (Australia) Exchange Rate Target
       Zone Database

  This site offers an extensive searchable bibliography (with
  abstracts) on the literature dealing with exchange rate target zones.
  It also has supplementary information on the research output of
  Australian economics departments.

  # http://www.tri.org.au/


10.1.41 New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and
       Regulation

  This institute, located at Victoria University of Wellington,
  conducts research on competition and regulatory issues in New
  Zealand, ranging from a "cross-country study of telecommunications
  market performance to investigating the economic efficiency of the
  privatization of Tranzrail."  This site offers information on the
  organizations which fund the Institute, people involved in research
  projects, research papers, and current and future research topics.

  # http://www.iscr.org.nz/

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