Political Economy / Economics

Article Databases

Business Source Complete: Articles from business journals including the areas Political Economy and Economics. Also provides industry reports and market research reports, country reports and company profiles.
You may do a joint search in Business Source Complete and Econlit by choosing “Choose Databases” and tick Econlit:

Econlit
Bibliographic information (some full text) to journals, books, chapters in books, dissertations and working papers in economics. (Econlit is an expanded version of the Journal of Economic literature indexes).

Web of Science (ISI) Index to academic journals within a wide range of subject areas, including Political Economy and Economics. Citation search and links to fulltext articles

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Journals

Suggested top 5 journals.
The journals are linked to Bibsys Ask where you find information about electronic holdings and links to the relevant database(s) and information about printed subscriptions. Access to journals requires BI authentication. Use our article databases to find other relevant journals.

American Economic Review
Econometrica
Journal of Political Economy
Quarterly Journal of Economics
Review of Economic Studies

Quality Check of Sources:
In academic writing, it is recommended to base your argumentation on scientific literature. When in doubt, there are several ways to determine a journal’s quality or impact. Here are some suggestions.

In addition, you will have to critically evaluate your sources in terms of value and relevance. The guide “Søk og skriv” developped by NHH, the University of Bergen and the University College of Bergen, gives you some useful guidelines.

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Research (article databases, reports, working papers)

The databases below are mostly subject-specific resources. Check out “About” or ask the library if you need alternatives.

Cepr Discussion Paper
Research results within the areas Financial Economics, Industrial Organization, Institutions and Economic Performance (formerly Transition Economics), International Macroeconomics, International Trade, Labour Economics and Public Policy.

Handbooks in Economics
Series of e-handbooks in economics, econometrics and finance from Elsevier.

NBER Working Papers
From National Bureau of Economic Research. Empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals.

NEP: New Economic Working Papers
NEP is an announcement service which filters information on new additions to RePEc into edited reports. The goal is to provide subscribers with up-to-date information about the research literature

S-WoPEc: Scandianvian Working Papers in Economics
This site provides access to electronic versions of Working Papers in Economics produced at Nordic academic departments and research organization.

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Statistics and Macroeconomics

SSB
Statistics Norway. Official Norwegian and international statistics.

Eurostat
Statistical information from the European Union.

OECDiLibrary
Books, periodicals, statistics and working papers in full text from OECD and IEA. Access to OECD.Stat with interactive statistics.

IMF eLibrary
Core databases from IMF such as International Financial Statistics (IFS), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT) and Government Financial Statistics (GFS).

World dataBank
Statistics from World Bank including World Development Indicators (WDI) and Global Development Finance (GDF).

Datastream (Access only from PCs in the library)
International macroeconomics. Primary sourced series from central banks, national stat. offices, ministries of finance, research organisations and trade ass. European and global coverage from Eurostat, IMF, OECD.

Penn World Table
Macro data. Economic time-series based on national accounts covering most of the countries in the world.

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