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Economics: Databases

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Databases provide access to high-quality peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, dissertations and many other resources. 

These databases have been especially selected for this subject area. When carrying out your research for a piece of work, you will need to search more than one database to find all of the journal articles relevant to your topic, as each database covers different journal titles.

Database Spotlight

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Statista

Statista is a global data and business intelligence platform with an extensive collection of statistics, reports, and insights on over 80,000 topics from 22,500 sources in 170 industries (Provided by Publisher).

Statista provides access to statistics concerning a wide range of industries ranging from agriculture, real estates, energy and environment to media, e-commerce, and technology and telecommunications. Users can also access reports relating to economy and politics, countries and regions, industry and markets, plus many more.

Essential databases

The following are important databases for this subject area, however if you don't see what you're looking for, please go to the Database Directory for Economics to browse a wider selection.

 

  • EconLit Essential
    EconLit covers more than 125 years of economics literature from around the world. Updated weekly, it provides an authoritative reference to journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers, and dissertations--all expertly indexed and classified using subject terms from the well-known JEL Classification System. EconLit allows you to keep up with developments in economics by providing one convenient place to search across scholarly publications dealing with a broad range of economics issues. Students and professionals at all levels rely on EconLit's broad scope and authoritative, up-to-date coverage with nearly 1.3 million records and coverage as far back as 1886. Nearly 65,000 entries are added each year. EconLit includes the most sought-after economics publications including peer-reviewed journal articles, working papers from leading universities, PhD dissertations, books, collective volume articles, conference proceedings, and book reviews - all expertly indexed, classified, and linkable to full-text library holdings.
  • Bloomberg Professional Essential
    Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both international and domestic markets, (booking required).
  • Lexis+ Essential
    A database containing the full text of unreported cases from 1981 to date and tax cases from 1875 to date. Other older cases go back to the late nineteenth century. As it is primarily an American database it also contains a wealth of American material, but also European, Commonwealth and international information. For UK and Irish regional and national newspapers click on 'Content' then 'Newspapers'.
  • OECD Statistics Databases Essential
    This database includes Monthly Statistics of International Trade, International Trade by Commodity, International Direct Investment, Statistics on International Trade in Services and Statistics on Measuring Globalisation.
  • UK Data Service - includes ESDS International Essential
    The UK Data Service replaces ESDS. It provides access to a wide range of datasets published by the OECD, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank. This database provides annual time series data for international trade, foreign investment and commodity prices. Datasets include IMF Direction of Trade Statistics, OECD International Trade by Commodity, OECD International Direct Investment and World Bank Development Indicators.
  • World Bank: Documents and Reports Essential
    Access to over 145,000 World Bank documents including board papers, country focus reports, economic reports and formal publications and working papers.
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Essential
    The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. It provides cross-disciplinary coverage across the social sciences, focused on four primary subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
  • Fame Essential
    Financial analysis database providing company information for over 2.8 million UK public and private companies, searchable by a wide range of criteria. Detailed financial analysis (up to 10 years) for over 600,000 companies plus director and shareholding data.
  • Mintel Oxygen Essential
    UK market research providing analysis for a wide range of consumer products food, drink, household, health, electronics, leisure trends, financial services and retailing.
  • Euromonitor Passport Essential
    This online market research tool monitors industry trends and provides strategic analysis and a market size and market share database covering over 350 markets and 850 cities. Euromonitor also has the world's most comprehensive research on the luxury goods industry. They monitor and analyse industry trends in personal goods globally, including in-depth data on market share and market size. Formerly known as Global market information database (GMID).
  • S&P Capital IQ Essential
    Formerly S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P Capital IQ Pro database (also known as SNL Financial ) provides worldwide bank data and analysis. It covers 50,000+ listed, non-listed and subsidiary banks (30,000+ active) across Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa.
    Financial Data including:
    • Balance sheet (gross and net loans, reserves, AFS, HTM and trading securities, derivative assets and liabilities, deposits, off-balance-sheet commitments etc.).
    • Income statement, including comparable pre-impairment operating profit, impairment detail and yield/cost information.
    • Detailed credit quality metrics, including problem loans, impairments and provisions.
    • Regulatory capital details, including core Tier 1, total capital and risk weighted assets, plus the associated capital ratios. Etc.

Key database categories

Database Directory

You can use our Database Directory to browse a broader range of databases that are relevant to Economics as well as other subjects. The directory also allows you to identify databases that provide access to specific types of resources (e.g. Full Text Articles, Streaming Video, Patents, Theses and Dissertations, and much more).

Database Directory Economics

 

Research at the University of Manchester

The University of Manchester's research is internationally recognised. Go to Research Explorer, Manchester's research database, to discover the breadth of research produced by staff across the University.

Browse research publications from the Department of Economics (please note: whilst many of the publications listed are available to access/Open Access, some records are for forthcoming titles awaiting publication).

 

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