Researchers & Academics

Datasets, APIs, and archives for economic research and academic study.

How to use this page

FRED, NBER, and the Penn World Table are good starting points for most macro and cross-country research. Use the topic filters to narrow by subject area, and check each tool's description for what kind of downloads or APIs it offers — most academic-grade sources here are free to use, though a few require institutional access for full datasets.

All Macro & GDP Labor Market Inflation & Prices Rates & Monetary Policy Trade & International Housing & Real Estate Markets & Financial Data Sentiment & Forecasting Education & Learning

Damodaran Online

NYU professor Aswath Damodaran's free valuation and market data spreadsheets.

Free

Nasdaq Data Link (formerly Quandl)

Financial and alternative datasets via API, both free and premium.

Freemium

Seeking Alpha

Investment research platform combining analyst insights, screeners, and market news.

Freemium

St. Louis Fed FRASER Archive

Digitized historical archive of US economic and financial documents.

Free

TIKR

Fundamental analysis terminal tracking superinvestor portfolios and global stocks.

Freemium

Yale/Shiller CAPE Ratio Data

Long-run cyclically-adjusted stock market valuation data from Robert Shiller.

Free