ONLINE RESOURCES –

MACROECONOMIC MODELS AND FORECASTS:

CBS Marketwatch & Bigcharts: http://cbs.marketwatch.com  http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com

Organization:  MarketWatch.com, Inc. is a leading multimedia publisher of business news and information. The Company operates two Web sites, CBS MarketWatch and BigCharts. The Company produces the syndicated CBS MarketWatch Weekend program, airs financial reports over The CBS Television Network, and provides updates every 30 minutes on the MarketWatch.com Radio Network. MarketWatch.com licenses market news, investment analysis tools and sophisticated charting applications to financial services firms and media companies.

Information Available: Latest information on market performance both domestic and international.  Information available on investments, mutual funds and taxes.  The Investor Tools section is helpful.

TD Bank Financial Group: www.td.com/economics/index

Organization:  The analysis and information provided by TD Economics covers the globe, with special emphasis on Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. The Canadian analysis includes the provincial economies, major industries and government finances. TD Economics focuses on government economic policies, inflation, interest rates and currencies in each of the global regions it scrutinizes. TD Economics releases economic commentaries and publications on a regular basis.

Information Available:  Analysis is broken down into categories of frequent, monthly and in-depth.  Forecasts are available as Quarterly Economic Forecasts and Provincial Economies.  Information mostly helpful for forecasting and commentaries on economic performance.

Götz Uebe's List Of Macroeconomic Models

http://www.unibw-hamburg.de/WWEB/math/uebe/modelle/titelseite.html

Organization: Posted by Professor Gotz Uebe of the Department of Economic and Organizational Sciences at the University of Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg Germany.

Information Available:  Scroll down the page (site still under construction) until you reach where it lists countries.  Select a country.  The next page will list the authors of different models and their name.  Click on the name to bring you to that author’s model.  Variables will be listed at the bottom of the page.

EconModel: www.econmodel.com/classic/

Organization: Site is operated by Bill Parke, an economics professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Information Available:  Classic Economic Models page allows you to access both micro and macroeconomic models.  Click on the concept and it will bring you to a page full of information, interactive visuals and links to similar models.  Very straightforward and easy to follow.  Great organization.  Even shows movies for the models.  Introduction to models and background information available.

EconoMagic www.economagic.com

Organization: This page is meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. This site was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class. The idea was to give students easy access to large amounts of data, and to be able to quickly get charts of that data.

Information Available:  This site does not have much information of its own but is a good starting point in finding other resources on specific topics.  Lists several websites to aid in research including many government agencies and bureaus.