Economics: Working Papers

Boston University Department of Economics, Institute for Economic Development-Discussion Papers
http://www.bu.edu/econ/ied/discussionpaper.html
Lists the approximately 160 discussion papers published by the Institute since November 1989.

Boston University Department of Economics Working Papers
http://www.bu.edu/econ/workingpapers/index.html
Working papers from 2000 through the present are listed. The full-text of the papers is provided in many cases.

Boston University, School of Management, Department of Finance and Economics. Working Papers
http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/publications/wp/index.cfm?code=FE
Most of the recent working papers are available online. Titles and authors for working papers since 2002 are listed.

Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Discussion Papers
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dp_papers.htm
Over 3,000 Discussion Paper Abstracts are currently available online and all Discussion Papers published since the beginning of 1999 (i.e. from No 2050) are available as PDF files. Some of the papers published before 1999 are also available online and more are expected in the future.

Columbia International Affairs Online
http://www.ciaonet.org/main/wps.html
Aggregates research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 that includes university working papers, NGO occasional papers, foundation-funded research projects, and conference proceedings.

EconLit [About]
Provides abstracts of working papers in economics.

European Research Papers Archive
Common access point for online working paper series in the field of European integration research.

Federal Reserve Board
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
The full text of FRB publications is available, including working papers (go to the Economic Research & Data section).

IDEAS: Economics and Finance Research
http://ideas.repec.org/
Largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics available on the Internet. Over 800,000 items of research can be browsed or searched and over 650,000 downloaded in full text.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) [About]
http://www.nber.org
Private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promote a greater understanding of how the economy works. Research is by more than 1,000 University professors around the country, the leading scholars in their fields.

Rand Corporation
http://firestone.princeton.edu/irl/rand.html
Current areas of research and analysis include national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, community development, international relations, and regional studies. RAND research results are published in several series.

Social Science Research Network
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/DisplayAbstractSearch.cfm
Includes working papers in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Law, and Management. Select full text is available.

SourceOECD [About]
Choose the "Working Papers" tab for a comprehensive lists of OECD working papers available in full-text online.

Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)
http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/default.asp
Some papers have to be ordered from the site, others may be downloaded.

Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics (Library of Congress)

University of California eScholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
University of California eScholarship Repository is a central location for faculty to deposit any research or scholarly output that is deemed appropriate by the participating University of California research unit, center, or department. Includes working papers.

World Bank Group
http://www-wds.worldbank.org/
Contains abstracts and ordering information for over 27,000 World Bank documents, most published since 1993. Searchable by country and keyword.

Older copies of a few working paper series (BU School of Management, Federal Reserve Bank, NBER, etc.) may be located in print by searching the library catalog.