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I. Introduction

• Syllabus | D2L | Class Pictures | Diebold Textbook Website | Sotck and Watson Website

II. Data

• pop.xls (population) | oil.xls (crude oil) | gdp.xls (real GDP) | yhoo.xls (Yahoo Stock Price)
• wsugrade.xls | cps04.xls (from Stock and Watson)
• playingcard.xls (from class experiment)
• caschool.xls (from Stock and Wason)
• ftse.xls (UK ftse100 index, from Yahoo Finance)
• retailsales.xls (US retail and food service sales, from FRED)
• houseprice.xls (from S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indicies)
• ffr.xls (Federal funds rate, indutrial production, inflation, stock, housing returns from FRED)
• housestart.xls
• hmda.xls (Mortgage application data from Stock and Watson)

III. Assignment

• Assignment 1 | growth.xls
• Assignment 2
• Assignment 3
• Assignment 4 | stocks.xls
• Assignment 5
• Assignment 6
• Project Guideline

IV. Data Resources

• Yahoo Finance | CRSP
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
• Federal Reserve Board Data
• Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
• AEAweb/RFE Data [US Macro & Regional] [Other US] [World] [Finance] [Journal Data Archives]
• Bureau of Labor Statistics [CPI News Releases] [Employment News Releases]
• Bureau of Economic Analysis | US Census Bureau [Population CPS]
• FedStats | White House
• Global Economic Indicators (Fed New York)
• Foreign Exchange Rates (Fed)
• Rober Shiller stocks market data
• NBER Data
• Center for the Study of Innovation and Productivity by SF Fed
• MSCI Barra | Russell Index | Lehman Brothers Fixed Income Index | CBOE VIX | CME Data
• OCED Statistics Portal | IMF International Data | World Economic Outlook Data (WEO) by IMF
• US House Price Index by OFHEO | S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indicies
• Freddie Mac CM Home Price Index | UK House Price
• Commodities Research Burea (CRB) Indexes
• Oil Prices, Consumption etc. from BP | 2007 Workbook
• Survey of Professional Forecasters | Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI)
• NASD Bond Information

V. Useful Links

• Atomic Learning (WSU access) Video tutorials for useful softwares, like Excel, PowerPoint, Access etc.
• Excel Video Tutorials by DataPig Tech
• Excel Internet Library
• SAS | SAS Research Examples
• SAS Resources from UCLA
• The Little SAS Book: A Primer

VI. On-Line Journals and Blogs

• The Wall Street Journal | The Financial Times | Business Week
• The Economist | CNN Money | Bloomberg
• WSJ Economics Blog | Greg Mankiw's Blog | William Yu's Blog | Econbrowser
• Brad Setser | Nouriel Roubini | Calculated Risk | Global Economic Blog | Economist’s View