This site has three parts: BibEc, a bibliography of working papers, in economics, WoPEc, an electronic collection of working papers, and CodEc, a collection of programs for economists. BibEc includes some 35,000 entries from about 250 different working papers series. These series include those major universities and research institutions, including the Fed in Print database of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. In BibEc it corresponds to the print publication of the same title published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. It indexes major publications of all the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks. Coverage goes back to 1986, with scanty coverage earlier than that. As of April 1994 it contains approximately 6,000 records. Updates are mounted semi-annually. In BibEc, FIP is found under the "U.S. Federal Reserve."
Coverage of NetEc dates from 1988, with the exception of NBER working papers (all are covered), UCSD from 1981, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London (all are covered). Searches can be made by keywords.
This is one of the most valuable resources for economists on the Internet. Fethy Mili <mili@ere.umontreal.ca>, a librarian at the Universite de Montreal, maintains an extensive collection of working paper series. He is to be commended for entering the data. The data is made available at the Manchester Computing Centre. Other institutions provided further contributions. NetEc welcomes the participation of all working paper producers.
WoPEc contains a collection of working papers, which can be retrieved electronically. All are Unix compressed PostScript files.
CodEc contains programs of interest to economists. For instance, Estima (who produces Rats), uses it to distribute its routines. It also contains Lin's "GAUSS Programming for Econometricians" (it has GAUSS routines for least squares, simultaneous least squares, arima models, and nonlinear optimization), Gary Langer's BCI Data Manager, as well as other programs. Information on the programs is identified by "software information" files that identifies the author, a description, software required, etc. CodEc is maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@ehess.cnrs-mrs.fr>.
Finally, the ftp site has the Backus and Kohoe data from the AER, '92 (see the "pub/NetEc/DatEc" directory). More data could be kept here; if you have a suggestion, please send email to netec@netec.mcc.ac.uk.
ftp://netec.mcc.ac.uk/pub/NetEc
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/NetEc.html
gopher://netec.mcc.ac.uk:70/11/NetEc
Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>