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Economics Collection Profile

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Books and eBooks

Collection policy reflects the evolving research and teaching requirements of the EUI Economics Department, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Max Weber Programme, School of Transnational Governance and users of economic literature and data campus-wide. To suggest books and manuals for acquisition, write to [email protected]

• The Main Library is located at the Badia Fiesolana
• The Economics Departmental Library is at Villa La Fonte
• All books, ebooks and journals are indexed in the Catalogue.

At the Badia Library, the Economics Books Collection is in the 330-339 shelf range; the Statistical Theory Collection is at 500-519 and the Data Manuals Collection at 001-006.

The Economics Departmental Collection at Villa La Fonte (same classification) is accessible 24 hours per day with EUI card. A full list of books and manuals in the Department is on this inventory page with links to full-text eBooks where available. All eBook titles are indexed in the Catalogue.

 

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Macroeconomics

The EUI Library has substantial holdings in international economics, monetary economics, political economy, finance, economic crises, Keynesian and neoclassical approaches, institutions, economic integration, globalisation, international trade, foreign direct investment, consumption, saving, production, employment, investment, inflation, business cycles, central banking, sovereign risk, fiscal policy and taxation.

Microeconomics

The collection includes socio-economic literature on households, families and firms, income, wealth, distribution and inequality, social stratification, behavioural economics, transaction costs, production, market structure, competition, monopoly, oligopoly, market imperfections, auction theory, general equilibrium and disequilibrium, welfare, cost-benefit analysis, social choice, information, decision-making, social networks and contracts.

Econometrics

The collection includes literature on methodology, hypotheses, estimation, semiparametric and nonparametric approaches, statistical distributions, time-series analysis, Bayesian analysis, cross-sectional models, spatial models, panel data, survey methods, computational techniques, game theory, experimental approaches and data estimation.

Statistical Theory and Data Science

There are large holdings in statistical theory and methods, data science, applied mathematics, probability, calculus, data mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning, graph theory, modelling, optimisation, regression analysis, experimental design and survey methods. Data support services are introduced on this Library page. The 2023 edition of the Library's Research Data Guide is available here.

 

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Journals Collection

Electronic journals are accessible via the Library Catalogue. EUI members can also access e-journals off-campus. The Economics Journals Collection is predominantly in electronic format. Older paper holdings are held in storage.

Publishers' e-journal platforms can be used for bibliography-building. Among the most important in economics are Science Direct, Springerlink, Ingenta, JSTOR, Sage and Wiley Online. 

The Library maintains an Economics Reference Directory which introduces the EconLit and Web of Science databases; the RePEc and EconBiz portals; the JournalTOCs table of contents' database and related research resources.

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Statistical Data Collection

Research data services are introduced on this Library page.

The EUI Data Portal provides access to macroeconomic and micro-socioeconomic data resources. There are three sub-directories:

Macroeconomic databases provide statistics on global, regional and national economic and political-economic developments. Major providers include Databanks, ECB, Eurostat, Global Financial Data, IMF, OECD, Refinitiv-LSEG, Standard & Poor’s, Statista GmbH, World Bank, UN and WIIW.

Micro-socioeconomic databases provide individual, family, household and company observations. Major providers include: DIW, Eurostat, GESIS, ICPSR, Moody’s Analytics-BvD and UKDS.

European, EU and Euro area resources provide data for research on pan-European topics, EU states, European sub-state regions and Europe in the global context.

The 11^th edition of the EUI Library Research Data Guide was published in April 2023. There are ten sections:

1.   Data discovery and the EUI Library Data Portal
2.   Data generation, data protection, data processing and ethical use
3.   Data management plans
4.   Research data management in EU programmes
5.   Managing data during the research project cycle
6.   Repositing and preserving data in the EUI repository Cadmus
7.   Open Data, FAIR Principles and Open Science
8.   Qualitative and unstructured data
9.   EUI infrastructure, software, protocols and support
10. International research data guidelines.

Download the PDF. The hyperlinked text is on the Research Data Services homepage.

 

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Working Papers Collection

Most working papers in economics are freely available online and can be located via RePEc (the research papers in economics portal) and Google Scholar. The following subscription (and part-subscription) series should be accessed via the Library Catalogue: NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research); CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research); FMG (Financial Markets Group) and SSRN (Social Science Research Network). Full details are in the economics working papers' directory.

 

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• Economics Journals Collection 
• Data Collection 
• Data Services 
• Economics Books and eBooks Collection 
• Departmental Library (VLF): course books and data manuals 
• Economics Reference Collection
• Homepage

Contact: Thomas Bourke at [email protected]