Research and Course Guides: *Economics Research Guide: ECON 311 Forecasting

Sources of Time Series Data

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
FRED is a database of more than 55,000 economic time series maintained by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Covers banking, business/fiscal, consumer prices, employment, population, exchange rates, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, money supply, producer price indexes (PPI), U.S. trade and international transactions, and U.S. financial data. Compiled by the Federal Reserve and collected from federal economic agencies.

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
U.S. and international datasets sourced from governmental, commercial, and private organizations (including the China Data Center).
Subject categories include: Banking, Finance, and Insurance; Criminal Justice and Law; Education; Energy Resources and Demand; Food and Agriculture; Government and Politics; Health and Vital Statistics; Housing and Construction; Industry and Commerce; International; Labor and Employment; Natural Resources and Environment; Population and Income; Prices and Cost of Living; Stocks and Commodities; Transportation and Travel.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Analysis, reports, data, and news for U.S. and international industries, companies and brands, consumers, and economies.
Passport user guide

OECD Data Explorer
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Data
Bureau of Labor Statistics home page
Use the Subject Areas section menu at the top to navigate data sources on inflation and prices, consumer spending, employment and unemployment, pay and benefits, productivity, etc.
BEA home page
Portal to the BEA's economic data

Mergent Market Atlas This link opens in a new window
A source for public company financials, SEC filings, ratios, business segments, descriptions, sustainability, officers, directors, and more.
Note: Mergent Market Atlas is the successor to the Mergent Online platform which will be discontinued in mid-2025.

EconLit This link opens in a new window
Economics journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, working papers, and dissertations.
EconLit user guide
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search across a wide range of academic literature indexed by Google. Use this link to get full-text access to articles available through the library via “GET IT@UST Libraries” links in search results.
Consensus This link opens in a new window
An academic search engine, powered by AI, but grounded in scientific research. It attempts to surface the most relevant papers using topic-level and paper-level insights. Everything is connected to real research papers.
Elicit This link opens in a new window
Elicit is an AI tool to find 'seed articles' and to mine for keywords/subject headings. Elicit can find relevant papers without perfect keyword match, summarize takeaways from the paper specific to your question, and extract key information from the papers.