Beige Book
This report is published eight times per year. Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports
from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources. The Beige Book summarizes this information by
District and sector.
Burgundy Books
The Research Division's Center for Regional Economics—8th District (CRE8®) produces a Burgundy Book for each of the regions surrounding its four offices. The Burgundy
Books provide anecdotal information along with formal data and are released four times per year.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Determination of the December 2007 Peak in Economic Activity, announcement dated December 11, 2008.
Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions.
Financial Crisis and Recession
by Susan Woodward and Robert Hall
The Woodward and Hall website contains a blog and a frequently updated working paper on the financial crisis and recession.
International Monetary Fund - World Economic Outlook Reports
A Survey by the IMF staff usually published twice a year. It presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term.
Chapters give an overview as well as more detailed analysis of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies
in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statistical appendix augment the text.
OCED Business Cycle Analysis Database
This interface provides access to time series data for OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLI), standardized consumer and business confidence indicators,
business tendency survey indicators by sector, and consumer opinion survey indicators as published in each monthly edition of the OECD Main Economic
Indicators. Accessing this source data will enable users to analyze in depth the development of business cycles within and across countries. Data for all OECD
Member countries (except Iceland), the Euro area, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, and the Russian Federation are available.
The World Bank: Prospects for the Global Economy
The World Bank's Prospects for the Global Economy web site is published twice yearly - in December and May. This website encompasses all information found in the forecast
chapter of their "Global Economic Prospects" and "Global Development Finance" publications, including information not available in the printed version,
such as full databases, regional annexes, analytical tools and statistical briefs among others.
