World Bank Open Data
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Free access to thousands of development indicators covering GDP, trade flows, exchange rates, debt and poverty for nearly every country since 1960. Readers can download series, compare economies, and build their own empirical analyses.
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piie.com
PIIE is a leading think tank offering rigorous analysis of international economics and policy. The site hosts research papers, policy briefs, data, and expert commentary on trade, finance, macroeconomics, and global economic issues, plus events and news.
WTO Resources
The WTO's research hub, collecting the annual World Trade Report, working papers, trade statistics databases and explanatory guides to WTO agreements. Useful for grounding trade theory in the actual rules and dispute records governing world commerce.
IMF eLibrary
The IMF's data portal, hosting Balance of Payments Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, International Financial Statistics and the World Economic Outlook database. Provides the standard series for studying exchange rates, current accounts and cross-border capital flows.
Energy Decisions, Markets, and Policies (MIT 15.031J)
How households, firms and governments choose among energy sources and uses, covering energy markets, electricity regulation, energy policy and technology choices across many countries and settings. Includes 21 lecture videos and lecture slides. Builds frameworks for analysing energy decisions and evaluating policy.
International Economics
The standard undergraduate text on trade and open-economy macroeconomics, covering Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin models, imperfect competition, tariffs, exchange rate determination and balance of payments. Readers finish able to model why countries trade and how policy shifts welfare.
Globalization and Its Discontents
A critique of IMF and World Bank policy in the 1990s by the World Bank's former chief economist, arguing that rapid capital-market liberalization and austerity conditions deepened crises in East Asia, Russia and Latin America.