Economics

Working papers are preliminary works, released to share ideas or invite discussion and feedback, often prior to the submission of a paper to a peer-reviewed journal or conference. Economists have traditionally relied on working papers as a method for the timely and informal communication of recent research findings.

• Bureau of Economic Analysis Working Papers
  • This site provides access to papers and presentations prepared by the Bureau of Economic Analysis staff. 
• Federal Reserve bank of St. Louis Working Papers
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis working papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment.
• IDEAS (Hosted by RePEc)
  • "IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Based on RePEc, it indexes over 3,000,000 items of research, including over 2,700,000 that can be downloaded in full text."
• Economics Research Network
  • "The Economics Research Network on SSRN is an open access preprint server that provides a venue for authors to showcase their research papers in economics in our digital library, speeding up dissemination and providing the scholarly community access to groundbreaking working papers, early stage research and even peer reviewed or published journal articles."
• NBER Working Papers
  • NBER researchers initially report their findings in these scientific papers aimed at other professional economists. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.