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Databases: Economic Indicator Series

These databases are made available to you by Jackson Library for academic use only.  They are accessible via GSB (or Stanford) Computers. 

Your top choices (in select order)

Database / Access Restrictions Description / Guide
WDI Online [icon - Stanford Network] 

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Development indicators by the World Bank.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
Global Development Finance (GDF) [icon - Stanford Network]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Debt and financial flows for 138 countries. Issued by the World Bank.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
Datastream [icon - Password]

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, staff only
   • Access in Trader's Pit

 

Description: Easy-to-download historical data on stocks, bonds, commodities, and economic indicators.
Help: Quick Guide[icon - pdf]
Global Financial Data [icon - Stanford Network] [icon - Password]

   • Current Stanford students, faculty, and staff only
      (SUNet ID required)
   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: World economic data on over 150 countries.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
Business Monitor Online [icon - Stanford Network]

   • Off-campus access instruction
 

Description: Country risk ratings, macroeconomics analyses and forecasts.
Help:Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
Global Insight (Formerly: DRI) [icon-GSB]

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Macroeconomic time series data for the U.S. Covers 1945 - present.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
EIU CountryData [icon - Stanford Network]

   • Off-campus access instruction

 

Description: Worldwide economic indicators and forecasts.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
International Financial Statistics [icon - GSB Network]

   • Off-campus access instruction


Description: Historical financial and economic data for IMF member countries.
Help: Quick Guide [icon - pdf]
Federal Reserve Bank Reports [icon-GSB] 

   • Off-campus access instruction

Description: Foreign Exchange Rates (Federal Reserve Board’s H.10 Report), Interest Rates (Federal Reserve Board’s H.15 Report), and FRB-Philadelphia State Indexes.

[icon-GSB] GSB Network     [icon - Stanford Network] Stanford Network    [icon - Password] Login Required

 

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