Links of interest
Edumarketinsight - S&P's educational version of Compustat.
You will need the password that comes with a new book. It will contain a lot of information relevant for the project.
Yahoo: Finance
A valuable resource for data on firms and stocks
Bloomberg.com - The most comprehensive site for financial data.
The drawback is an unfriendly and proprietary interface.
Internet Resources for Economists
A detailed description of internet resources for economists developed and maintained by economist Bill Goffe.
Web Ec
An extensive listing of Web sites in many countries that are of special interest to economists maintained by Lauri Saarinen in Finland.
Free Data Sets on the Web
International economic data (linked from Alan Deardorff's page)
Data sources (linked from Prof. Smant's page)
Institute for International Economics (a lot of relevant papers to the class, available for download)
Quarterly Review, Minneapolis Fed (bottom)
Learn about plagiarism and how to stay away from it
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