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Welcome to the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 1,100,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 1,000,000 can be downloaded in full text! This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc, which includes bibliographic metadata from over 1,400 participating archives, including all the major publishers and research outlets. IDEAS is just one of several services that use RePEc data. To see the popularity of some of these services, browse the statistics at LogEc

Authors are invited to register with RePEc create an online profile. Then, anyone finding some of your research here can find your latest contact details and a listing of your other research. You will also receive a monthly mailing about the popularity of your works, your ranking and newly found citations.

Current holdings on IDEAS:

Journals
& series		Itemsof which
onlineJEL codedwith abstractswith referenceswith citations
Working papers 3,387 455,831 391,418 217,194 378,700 225,907 175,620
Articles 1,480 709,088 645,867 99,772 383,952 93,909 215,718
Chapters 94 15,392 14,889 2,723 4,346 2,945 4,649
Books 217 14,039 5,269 2,968 10,479 597 3,519
Software components 26 2,697 2,684 266 2,559 0 0
Total 5,204 1,197,047 1,060,127 322,923 780,036 323,358 399,506

In addition, IDEAS has information about
12,622 economics institutions,
32,264 authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service (who have authored 736,222 items listed in RePEc) and
36,351 NEP reports in 92 fields.

Newly participating institutions (past two months)

16.5.12: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
11.5.12: Université de Liège
10.5.12: Flinders University
9.5.12: Economics for Energy
8.5.12: Central European University
8.5.12: Hellenic Association of Regional Scientists
5.5.12: Southern Regional Science Association
26.4.12: Kasetsart University
26.4.12: Review of Agrarian Studies
24.4.12: Brigham Young University
23.4.12: Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
20.4.12: Bahcesehir University
17.4.12: JICA Research Institute
16.4.12: La Trobe University (II)
16.4.12: Western Risk and Insurance Association
13.4.12: IGI Global
12.4.12: Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
8.4.12: Universitatea Andrei Saguna
6.4.12: Scientific Society of Management from Romania
4.4.12: Duke University (II)
2.4.12: Università di Trieste
29.3.12: Cornell University (II)
27.3.12: Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)
21.3.12: ISTIEE
15.3.12: Universidade de Vigo
11.3.12: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien
6.3.12: Okan Üniversitesi
28.2.12: International School for Social and Business Studies
27.2.12: University of Warwick (III)
23.2.12: Università di Roma La Sapienza (IX)
23.2.12: University of Toronto (III)
15.2.12: Copernicus University in Torun
9.2.12: Columbia University (II)
6.2.12: Banco Central de la Republica Argentina
3.2.12: Auckland University of Technology
3.2.12: Université d'Aix-Marseille
3.2.12: St. Olaf College
31.1.12: University of Otago
31.1.12: Rosenberg e Sellier Editori
24.1.12: Universität Mannheim
19.1.12: Hacettepe University
18.1.12: Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel
18.1.12: Centre for European Policy Studies
14.1.12: Versita
11.1.12: Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
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