Useful Internet Links for ECO 41: International Economics

Searchable online catalog of the Long Island University's Library.
ECO 41 Page on the Economics Department’s Web site
Economics-Related Web Sites
Online Bookstores, etc.

General Links to Course-Related Material on the Internet

• Resources for Economists: this site, although general, is often the best place to start.
• Alta Plana International Economics Gateway: this is a gateway site, meaning that it has links to other sites on the Internet that have valuable content.
• Web Resources for International Economics & Business: a very useful site containing valuable course material, including Prof. D. Y. Lee's lecture notes.
• Understanding the World Macroeconomy : Prof. Nouriel Roubini’s amazingly rich site on International Macroeconomics, for his MBA course. See also his commercial Web site, RGE Monitor.
• WebEc: another gateway site for International Economics.
• International trade statistics 2005, WTO
• World Trade Report 2005, WTO
• International Trade and Business Reference Page.
• Empirical Investigations in International Trade, maintained by Jon Haveman.
• International Trade Data Sources, maintained by John Kane.
• Penn World Tables 6.1: internationally comparable data for 179 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000.
• World Development Reports, World Bank
• World Development Indicators 2005, World Bank

Special Topics

Globalization

• A World Connected
• Global Envision
• Globalization Gets Mixed Grades in U.S. Universities: Columbia Spat Isn't Academic: Students Often Go On to Top Posts Back Home, By JON E. HILSENRATH, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 2, 2002
• A survey of globalisation, The Economist, September 29, 2001

Migration

Outsourcing

This is Bangalore Calling: Hang Up or Speed Dial? by Catherine L. Mann, Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, January 15, 2005 (see here)
The Muddles over Outsourcing by Jagdish Bhagwati, Arvind Panagariya, and T. N. Srinivasan, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18 No. 4, Fall 2004, pages 93-114
Demystifying Outsourcing by Mary Amiti and Shang-Jin Wei, Finance and Development, December 2004
Perspective: Outsourcing Jobs Overseas: A Cause for Concern? by Jane Sneddon Little, Regional Review, Quarter 2/3 2004, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Is your job headed for Bangalore? by Martin N. Baily and Diana Farrell, The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter, 2004
Survey: Outsourcing, The Economist, November 11, 2004

Robert A. Mundell

• A celebration of the 1999 Economics Nobel for Robert Mundell.

International Organizations

• Asian Development Bank
• The G-8 Information Center
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• The World Bank
• The International Monetary Fund
• More on the International Monetary Fund
• The U.S. International Trade Commission
• The U.S. International Trade Administration
• Institute for International Economics
• The United Nations
• World Trade Organization
• International Trade Center of WTO and UNCTAD

Foreign Exchange data

• Federal Reserve Economic Data
• Bloomberg - updated every 15 minutes.
• Olsen Currency Converter - daily (from 1990)

Pacific Data Service (UBC) - download your own custom data set here (daily), or plot charts here.