The Airport Economist’s useful websites in trade and economics.
Australian
Australian Bureau of Statistics – www.abs.gov.au
Great for all sorts of data on the Australian economy and society.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – www.dfat.gov.au
DFAT has useful travel information for Australians venturing overseas with embassy addresses, information regarding passport and visas, travel alerts etc..
I also recommend looking at their statistics website http://www.dfat.gov.au/publications/statistics_international.html which is very useful when looking up trade statistics.
Australian Business Economists – www.abe.org.au
The ABE is the leading organisation of market economists in Sydney. They put on great events with guest speakers such as Fed Governors, RBA Governors, Treasurers and other leading lights.
Reserve Bank of Australia – www.rba.gov.au
This is great for data, speeches and research papers. The RBA’s ‘Chart pack’ of Economic Graphs produced by Bank’s economists is first class and well worth looking at.
University of South Australia (internet resources for economists) – http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/resources/subject/economic.asp this site is great for economics teachers and students
For practical export information, exporters and potential exporters should check out Austrade and EFIC as well as DFAT’s site (mentioned above). See: Australian Trade Commission (Austrade) – www.austrade.gov.au
Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) – www.efic.gov.au
The Lowy Institute for International Policy: www.lowyinstitute.org
The Lowy Institute in Sydney is the premier think tank in Australia on global issues. In particular, check out Mark Thirlwell’s work. He is a world class international economist and it is always worth seeing Mark in action at a Lowy Institute forum if you get the chance.
United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney – http://ussc.edu.au
The energetic Geoffrey Garrett leads a great team at this think tank at Sydney University that specializes in the United States Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales: www.business.unsw.edu.au
Some practical tips can also be found at the small business site – Smart Company www.smartcompany.com.au
Of course, The Airport Economist appears as a regular commentator on Australian’s national broadcaster, the ABC.
Check out www.abc.net.au and in particular, the ABC’s current affairs blog “The Drum” – Alan Kohler and Stephen Long cover the economic and finance issues.
But As a frequent traveller, the best resource of all for The Airport Economist is the Australia Network: australianetwork.com
Australian Network provides the best of Australian news current affairs, sport and entertainment and very popular with Aussies living overseas or anyone wanting to catch up on all things Australian.
International
Asian Development Bank – www.adb.org
A good source of research on the Asia Pacific region.
Family Tree of Economists –http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/tree/INDEX.HTM
If you want to know the “Who’s who” of academic economists in international trade jump on this site.
Global Trade Negotiations (Harvard University) – www.cid.harvard.edu/cidtrade
A great website initiated by Harvard Development Economist Dani Rodrik which focuses on trade and development issues.
Institute for International Economics – www.iie.com
From the Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics, a prestigious international trade think tank in Washington DC, founded by Fred Bergsten
International Labour Organisation – www.ilo.org
For international labour market issues
International Monetary Fund – www.imf.org
The Fund produces their World Economic Outlook and their major research papers on this site. The IMF Data Mapper is very useful for number crunchers looking for comparative data.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – www.oecd.org
Excellent site from the well-respected Paris think tank. The OECD Observer is worth looking at for a synthesis of topical international economic issues
Research papers in economics – www.repec.org
If you want to find anything that’s ever been written in academic economics you’ll find it here
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – www.unctad.org/trade
This UN body publishes some good papers and data bases – particularly on foreign investment.
World Bank – www.worldbank.org
The World Bank has a great many resources online about economic development. The Bank’s Development Gateways are worth looking at. See the one on trade policy issues at: http://www.developmentgateway.org/trade/
World Trade Organisation – www.wto.org
The WTO’s annual World Trade Report tells you everything you need to know about trade in the world in any given year. You can download it on line. You can also look up trade data on this site. It’s pretty comprehensive.
The Globalist: www.theglobalist.com
Provides a very lively discussion of international affairs
There are also a number of columnists and blogs that I enjoy.
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times http://www.ft.com/comment/columnists/martinwolf
Paul Krugman in The New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/paulkrugman/
Steve D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner the authors of the best seller ‘Freakonomics’ and ‘Superfreakonomics’ at: http://freakonomicsblog.nytimes.com
Tim Harford the author of ‘The Undercover Economist’ and ‘The Logic of Life’ at www.timharford.com
Philippe Le Grain the author of ‘Open World’ ‘Immigrants: your country need them’ ‘Aftershock: Reshaping the world economy after the crisis’ at:
http://www.philippelegrain.com
And also the ‘New Economist’ blog site at: http://neweconomist.blogs.com/
A good UK-based economics blog with some useful links.
And in Australia, check out John Quiggin, http://johnquiggin.com
Nick Gruen http://www.gruen.com.au
Andrew Leigh: www.andrewleigh.com
For academic thinking in Australia from Joshua Ganes, Mark Crosby and colleagues see the Joshua Gans created blog Core Economics at: www.economics.com.au
Fairfax and News limited also have their own websites.
You’ll find the legendary Ross Gittins, Peter Hartcher and other Fairfax contributors at “The National Times” www.nationaltimes.com.au
You’ll find the News Limited writers at “The Punch” www.thepunch.com.au as well as news.com.au
And some of the best writers and presenters at the national broadcaster write for The Drum at www.abc.net.au/unleashed
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