Economics — Useful Sites

EKAP — Elektronik Kamu Alımları Platformu

2026-10-18T00:00:00Z

The Public Procurement Authority’s platform; tender and award notices are publicly searchable. Unlike tender-news sites it is the source itself, the official way to follow public purchasing by agency, date and amount; bidding needs registration.

https://ekap.kik.gov.tr/

EVDS — TCMB Elektronik Veri Dağıtım Sistemi

2026-10-18T00:00:00Z

The Turkish central bank’s time-series store: exchange rates, interest rates, money supply, balance of payments and the market participants survey. Unlike FRED it is the primary source for Turkey’s monetary and financial series; tables download without an account, the API needs a free key.

https://evds3.tcmb.gov.tr/

TÜİK Veri Portalı

2026-10-18T00:00:00Z

Turkish Statistical Institute’s official statistics portal: inflation (CPI, PPI), GDP, labour, population and foreign-trade tables, with the release bulletins. Unlike EVDS it is not about financial-market series; it is the producer of the official price, output and demographic statistics.

https://veriportali.tuik.gov.tr/

Atlas of Economic Complexity

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The Harvard Growth Lab’s atlas visualising a country’s export structure and economic complexity. Unlike raw trade data it comes with derived measures such as the complexity index, which reads growth potential off the export basket.

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/

Bureau of Economic Analysis

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The official US publisher of GDP, national accounts, personal income and international trade data. Unlike BLS it focuses on production and income accounts rather than the labour market; it has GDP tables by state and industry.

https://www.bea.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The official US source for employment, unemployment, wages and consumer inflation (CPI). It publishes many series you see on FRED; unlike FRED it goes down to occupation, industry and region breakdowns. It has a public API.

https://www.bls.gov/

NBER Data

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

Datasets released by NBER researchers: macroeconomic history, CPS extracts, patent data. Unlike NBER Working Papers it is the data behind the papers, not the papers themselves, which makes it useful for reproducible economics.

https://www.nber.org/research/data

UN Comtrade

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The UN database of countries’ merchandise trade by product (HS code) and partner. Unlike national customs statistics it collects countries into one structure, so trade between two countries can be checked against both sides’ reports; free use has limits.

https://comtrade.un.org/

UNDP Human Development Data Center

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The data centre for the UNDP’s Human Development Index and its related composite indices (inequality, gender, poverty). Unlike income-only GDP data it folds health and education into the same index.

https://hdr.undp.org/data-center

US Census Bureau

2026-10-08T09:00:00Z

The official publisher of US population, household, housing and business statistics, home to the American Community Survey and the economic censuses. Unlike aggregators such as FRED it goes down to county and neighbourhood level; it offers raw tables and an API.

https://www.census.gov/

BIS — Bank for International Settlements

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

The central bank of central banks, publishing global financial statistics and research papers. Unlike market-data sites it focuses on systemic and cross-border banking data.

https://www.bis.org

EconJobMarket

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A platform managing academic economics job applications in one place, collecting applications and reference letters. A standard application flow instead of scattered emails.

https://econjobmarket.org/

EconLib

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A library holding an economics encyclopedia, essays and full texts of classic economics works. Unlike current data portals it offers concepts and theory rather than data, with a distinctly free-market editorial stance.

https://www.econlib.org

Economics Stack Exchange

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

An economics Q&A site where you can ask experts about concepts and models. Unlike a forum, voting and editing surface the best answer.

https://economics.stackexchange.com/

FRED

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

The St. Louis Fed’s economic database — 800,000+ US and world series, with charting and an API. Unlike raw statistical releases, the browse-plot-download flow lives in one place.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

IDEAS / RePEc

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

One of the largest databases of economics publications — over two million papers, working papers and software items. Unlike Google Scholar it is field-specific: it indexes economics alone and derives author and institution rankings.

https://ideas.repec.org/

IGM Experts Panel

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A panel where leading economists vote whether they agree with topical policy questions. Unlike a single expert’s view it shows at a glance where the consensus sits.

https://www.igmchicago.org/igm-economic-experts-panel/

IMF Data

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

The IMF’s macro data — the standard reference for balance of payments, exchange rates and debt. It leans more to monetary and fiscal statistics than the World Bank.

https://www.imf.org/en/Data

JOE · Job Openings for Economists

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

The American Economic Association’s official job board — the central place for the academic economics market. Unlike general job sites it is economics positions only.

https://www.aeaweb.org/joe/

Khan Academy · Ekonomi

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A free video-and-exercise set teaching the basics of micro, macro and finance from scratch. Unlike university courses it targets the introductory level and intuition.

https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain

Marginal Revolution

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok’s daily economics blog — among the most-read in the field. Against news it offers a short, frequent stream of commentary through an economist’s lens.

https://marginalrevolution.com/

MIT OCW · İktisat

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Over 100 courses across every major field of economics in MIT’s open courseware. Unlike YouTube playlists these are full course structures with prerequisites and reading lists.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/

NBER Working Papers

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Working papers from the US National Bureau of Economic Research — most later appear in peer-reviewed journals. Unlike the journals it lets you read leading research months before publication; bear in mind they have not yet been peer-reviewed.

https://www.nber.org/papers

OECD Data

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Official OECD statistics across member economies, standardised for cross-country comparison straight from the source. Unlike general data aggregators the data is standardised and comes directly from the official source.

https://www.oecd.org/en/data.html

OpenStax · Principles of Economics

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A free, openly licensed textbook for introductory university economics. Unlike commercial texts it is free and regularly updated, with PDF, web and print editions.

https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-economics-3e

Our World in Data

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A university-backed research publication presenting long-run data on the economy, population, health and environment as interactive charts. Unlike raw data portals it pairs the data with narrative and context, and every chart is freely reusable.

https://ourworldindata.org

QuantEcon

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Open-source lectures and libraries for computational economics (Python and Julia). Unlike pure theory it teaches building and solving models in code — widely used in quantitative economics.

https://quantecon.org/

RePEc

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A network of services for economics researchers: bibliography, working-paper feeds, blog aggregator. Unlike a single archive it is distributed volunteer infrastructure; IDEAS is its front end, repec.org the system behind it.

https://repec.org/

RFE · Resources for Economists

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A guide of thousands of links for economists, maintained by the American Economic Association. A directory curated by the field itself rather than random search.

https://www.aeaweb.org/rfe/

SSRN Economics

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A preprint archive of economics working papers. Unlike NBER it is not tied to one institution: anyone can upload, so it is broader but less filtered.

https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/ern/

Statista

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A statistics portal aggregating market and survey data across industries with sourcing. Unlike primary data sources it collects scattered figures into one chart; access to the raw data and downloads is mostly paid.

https://www.statista.com

Trading Economics

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

Gathers macro indicators — GDP, inflation, rates — for 196 countries in one dashboard with historical series and forecasts. Unlike official portals that cover one country, it offers cross-country comparison and forecasts.

https://tradingeconomics.com

VoxEU / CEPR

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

A stream of columns where researchers explain their own work to a policy audience (CEPR). Unlike a working paper it drops the jargon and makes the finding accessible.

https://cepr.org/voxeu

World Bank Data

2026-09-18T00:00:00Z

International macroeconomic time series, country by country. Unlike individual statistics offices it is comparable: hundreds of indicators under common definitions in one place.

https://data.worldbank.org/

Visual Capitalist

2026-07-28T08:43:49Z

A publication turning economic and technology data into infographics. Not a raw data source — its contribution is making magnitudes comparable.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/

ImportYeti

2026-04-17T18:58:11Z

Supply-chain search engine indexing US customs sea-shipment bills of lading to reveal which overseas factories and suppliers any company uses; free to search unlike enterprise trade-intelligence platforms.

https://www.importyeti.com/

IMF Finance & Development

2026-04-17T18:57:09Z

Quarterly magazine published by the IMF featuring essays from economists and policymakers on monetary policy, financial stability, and global trends; written for broad accessibility unlike dense econometric working papers.

https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd

Marginal Revolution University (MRU)

2026-04-17T18:56:24Z

Free economics education platform founded by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok covering micro, macro, trade, and development economics through short animated videos; uses real-world case studies instead of dry textbook lectures.

https://mru.org/

World Bank Blogs

2026-04-17T18:56:09Z

Data-driven articles by World Bank economists on global development, poverty, climate policy, and trade; distills empirical findings into short charts and essays rather than hundred-page technical reports.

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/home

TCMB (Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası)

2026-04-17T18:55:48Z

Official portal of the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye publishing monetary policy decisions, inflation reports, benchmark exchange rates, and balance-of-payments statistics as primary data rather than secondary commentary.

https://www.tcmb.gov.tr/