ECON 211 Resources
Reference Sources
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Data Sources
Snapshot: “Forms of Federal Reserve lending”
NY Fed Programs Archive
Includes data on CPFF, MMIFF, PDCF, TALF, and TSLF
Factors Affecting Reserve Balances – weekly data including archived data
FRED data: Factors affecting Reserve Balances
Monetary Policy Press Releases
News Sources
Access to Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, The Economist and other current news sources (with backfile to 1980s)
Lexis Nexis
Major US and world newspapers (some overlap with titles available in Factiva)
Research databases (journal articles, papers and more)
EconLit
The most comprehensive index to economics journals, essays, working papers and books
NBER Working Papers
Library subscribes to full text PDFs of working papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research
Business Source Complete
Database that includes business news sources, academic journals, and trade and industry publications
RePEc EconPapers
Searchable database of economics articles and working papers that are freely available online
Search Tips
- Search for both the full name and the acronym or other names for the facility (i.e. Term Asset Backed Lending Facility OR TALF // Reciprocal Lines of Credit OR “swap lines”)
- Use date limiting to find data and articles written right after the Fed announced each program, unless information about the facility was known before it was announced such as QE2 Quantitative Easing, which may have affected the market before it was officially launched since there was some previewing
- Keep in mind that the more recently a facility was announced, the less time academics will have had to produce scholarship and analysis