EC 970: Finance and Progress

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• HOLLIS:  HOLLIS is our discovery platform for materials and resources available in the Harvard Library.  Includes individual journal articles available through many of the Harvard licensed databases, as well as books, journals, manuscripts, government documents, maps and more listed in a traditional library catalog.  Sign in for full access.  Our Hollis Help research guide has useful searching tips.
• Econlit :  Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
• ABI/Inform : Articles from over 1,000 academic management, marketing, and general business journals.
• JSTOR Economics: Full-text journal articles with focus on economics literature. 
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Papers: Full-text of NBER Working Papers from 1973 to the present. 
• SSRN:  A large collection of working papers mostly authored by prominent university faculty, both pre- and post-publication. These papers cover a range of academic subjects including law, economics, business and public policy topics.

• Capital IQ:  Data on public and private companies, investment firms, capital transactions, and people.  Includes S&P RatingsDirect. 
• Factset:   Platform used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets. Individual account required. 
• Refinitiv Workspace: Includes equity research/analyst reports from investment banks. Reports tend to focus on companies, but industry reports are also included.  Visit the Stamps Reading Room on the third floor of Baker Library for access.
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC):  Formal interagency body empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms for the federal examination of financial institutions by a number of agencies and to make recommendations to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions.  Includes Bank data and Bank Holding Company data.
• Bank for International Settlements (BIS) International Banking Statistics
• Additional Financial Resources from Baker Library 
• Baker Library Research Guides and FastAnswers

• Macrohistory Database: The Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database is the result of an extensive data collection effort over several years. In one place it brings together macroeconomic data that previously had been dispersed across a variety of sources. The data now covers 18 advanced economies since 1870 and includes 48 real and nominal macro-financial variables.
• United States Economic Data Resources
• International Economic Data Resources
• EIU Country Data:  Economic indicators and forecasts providing data series on economic structure, foreign payments, exchange rates, external debt stock, external debt service, external trade, trends in foreign trade and quarterly indicators.
• Statista: A statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
• Harvard Dataverse:  Includes the world's largest collection of social science research data. Collections include data sets from government entities, universities, and individual researchers.
• ICPSR Data Archive: One of the world’s oldest and largest social science data archives; based at the University of Michigan. Covers a wide range of topics including economics and law.
• Patent Data Resources 
• Additional Economic Data Resources:  https://guides.library.harvard.edu/economics
• Additional Data and Statistics Research Guides:  https://guides.library.harvard.edu/sb.php?subject_id=62462

• Citation and Research Management Tools:  Citation and research management tools help you organize your research and keep track of your references. They also make it easy to add citations into the documents you're working on and automatically generate bibliographies in most styles. Harvard Library primarily supports the use of Zotero, EndNote, and Overleaf Pro +.

• The Writing Center is a place for Harvard undergraduates to get help with any aspect of their writing, from specific assignments to general writing skills.

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