LibGuides: Economics: Working Papers

What is a Working Paper?

Working papers are works in progress. They may be theoretical or statistical pre-published articles, book chapters, reviews or conference papers. Depending on the guidelines of the publisher, papers may be under consideration for submission or forthcoming in academic journals. Working papers are published by policy organizations or research institutions, or presented at conferences in order to engender discussion and ideas based on new thought or research.

Library of Congress Working Papers Portal

Working Papers and Technical Reports in Business, Economics and Law

To increase awareness of and access to valuable grey literature in business, economics and law, the Library of Congress provides online access both through its catalog and through these web pages to a growing number of working papers and technical reports placed online by institutions responsible for creating the reports.

Working Papers in Economics

EconPapers
EconPapers use the RePEc bibliographic and author data, providing access to the largest collection of online Economics working papers and journal articles. The majority of the full text files are freely available, but some (typically journal articles) require that you or your organization subscribe to the service providing the full text file.
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.
Federal Reserve Working Papers
Federal Reserve economists produce original research on a broad range of topics relevant to the U.S. and international economies.
IMF Working Papers
The views expressed in working papers published on this site are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate.
National Bureau of Economics Research (NBER) Working Papers
NBER Working Papers are intended to make results of NBER research available to economists in preliminary form to encourage discussion and suggestions for revision before publication. These publications have not been submitted for approval by the Board of Directors.
OECD Economics Department Working Papers
Working papers from the Economics Department of the OECD that cover the full range of the Department’s work including the economic situation, policy analysis and projections; fiscal policy, public expenditure and taxation; and structural issues including ageing, growth and productivity, migration, environment, human capital, housing, trade and investment, labour markets, regulatory reform, competition, health, and other issues.
OECD Economic Policy Papers
The OECD Economic Policy Papers series is designed to make available selected studies on structural and macro-economic policy issues of current interest.
OECD Statistics Working Papers
The papers included are of a technical, methodological or statistical policy nature and relate to statistical work relevant to the organisation. The Working Papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Briefs
The Institute’s Policy Briefs in International Economics are short papers that convey urgent policy problems and outline courses of action to resolve them. Each brief begins with an assessment of a current issue, then critiques existing policies, and concludes with policy recommendations.
Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Papers
In 1994 Peterson Institute for International Economics launched a series of working papers. The series is intended to convey the preliminary results of ongoing research. The Institute's purpose is to identify and analyze important issues to making globalization beneficial and sustainable for the people of the United States and the world and then to develop and communicate practical new approaches for dealing with them. The Institute is widely viewed as nonpartisan.
World Bank Policy Research Working Papers
More than 6,000 policy research working papers. The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. Titles are submitted from units around the World Bank for internal review and inclusion in this series which is managed by the Development Economics Research Support unit. These are pre-print drafts prior to review and publication in formal journals.