Access the most recent and relevant statistics and studies on a specific topic by simply entering a keyword. statista aggregates statistical data on over 600 international industries from more than 18,000 sources, including market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
Industry overviews with snapshots that include recent developments, business challenges, trends & opportunities, insight from executives, financial information, forecasts and ratings. Also, industry profiles for North American states and provinces.
The NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies. The NBER publishes working papers, books, and periodicals. WPI has an institutional subscription to the Working Papers series.
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Data Tools www.bls.gov/data/
BLS Industries at a Glance www.bls.gov/iag/home.htm
U.S. Census Bureau:
County Business Patterns www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp.html
data on businesses by industry at the county level.
The Economic Census www.census.gov/programs-surveys/economic-census.html
conducted every five years.
Economic Indicators www.census.gov/economic-indicators/
U.S. Census Bureau regular updates of U.S. economic data such as housing sales, retail merchant sales, international durable goods orders with graphs of data.
Links to the statistical agencies of counties throughout the world.
Other Helpful Sites
New England Economic Indicators www.bostonfed.org/data/data-items/new-england-economic-indicators-database.aspx
Global Economic Indicators www.newyorkfed.org/research/global_economy/globalindicators.html
International Labour Organization www.newyorkfed.org/research/global_economy/globalindicators.html
The UN specialized agency which seeks the promotion of social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights. See International Labour Standards.
Export.gov Market Intelligence www.export.gov/Market-Intelligence
Market research and planning tools to help U.S. businesses participate in the global market place.
Export.gov Trade Data & Analysis www.export.gov/Trade-Data-and-Analysis
Identify the best countries and market sizes to target using trade data and analysis.
Business Source Premier is an essential article database for business research providing the full text for thousands of scholarly and professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines - including Harvard Business Review. Covers virtually all disciplines in business and economics, including: accounting, banking, economics, econometrics, finance, international trade, marketing, management, MIS, POM, QMM and supply chain management. Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles of the world's 10,000 largest companies. and SWOT analyses. Business Source Premier allows searching by fields relevant to the study of business, including company name, ticker symbol, product name, geographic location, and NAICS industry code.
An intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more.
IBISWorld provides industry research that covers more than 700 industries as well as specialized industry reports on emerging industries. Reports include the industry at a glance, performance, outlook, life cycle, competitive landscape and more.
Hoover’s™ Academic solution is a premier source of business information. Providing comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, and 1,000 industries. Hoover's Academic solution provides unique insight to the core database of over 40,000 company profiles.This powerful research tool brings together company histories, news stories, financials, federal filings, executive biographies and more.
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspectives with global appeal.
Nexis Uni provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexis Uni includes: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources (primarily newspapers, magazines and journals) in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data - including company financial information, and SEC filings and reports - on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, federal and state agency regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
Financial reports and filings submitted by US publicly traded companies to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Includes press releases, quarterly (10-Q) and annual (10-K) reports, insider trading reports, and more. 10-K reports give very detailed information about a company's products, businesses, operations, competitors, and markets.
Search full text of the New York Times.
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Full text searchable database of Wall Street Journal Eastern edition, offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics. Coverage: Jan 2, 1984 - present
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