Finance Research

Best websites for Finance Research
 
The internet is a tremendous resource for research on finance. You can obtain data, research papers, academic journal articles, blogs, analysis and even, videos and podcasts presenting the latest research ideas. Below are some of the best places to undertake research on finance on the internet.

 

1) WolframAlpha.com
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We love this site it is a statistical search engine. You ask it for data and it will give you it. GDP per capita, exports as a percentage of GDP, population, value of the currency against the dollar, stock prices and charts...and much much more. solves equations and covers many subject areas from science, maths, music and history.
 
2) 
scholar.google.com
A great way to find academic research on finance, type in the subject and it brings up the most cited articles also you can change date to see recent but less cited
 
3) 
Sciencedirect.com
A great place to locate academic articles including the hottest 25 in finance
 
4) 
MoneyScience.com
A finance related directory, which describes itself as financial intelligence for the business world. Many useful links.
 
5) 
QFINANCE.com
QFinance is a comprehensive finance resource involving a unique collaboration of more than 300 of the world's leading practitioners in finance. Includes viewpoints and blogs
 
6) 
Wilmott.com
A site that specializes in all aspects of quantitative finance, registered members get access to research and the sites forms and blogs. A place where many quants in the industry hang out !
 
7) 
afajof.org
American Finance Association the leading academic organisation for finance academics. It publishes the Journal of Finance. We like the History of Finance interviews with the leading academics in finance such as Markowitz, Merton, Scholes, Fama and Black.
 
8) 
Research-Finance.com
A personal site in which the site owner provides many useful links to recent research papers in finance . In addition there are many other finance research related links.
 
9) 
WorldScience.org
A bit like scholar.google.com but it searched for papers and research by author or subject from a selection of over 80 scientific databases.
 
10) 
researchonmoneyandfinance.org
This is an academic led initiative that looks at the world of finance from a more political economy stance. They publish their own working papers series.
 
11)
 york.ac.uk/res/mmf
The Money Macro and Finance Group is based in York University and frequently runs workshops and conference covering developments in the world of finance. They also bring in the view of practitioners so informing their policy discussions.
 
12)
 fnce.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty
The Finance Department at Wharton Business School is generally regarded as one of the best in the world. The above links to their faculty webpage from which you can find their latest research papers.
 
15) 
Longfinance.net
This site takes a longer term look at the world of finance and where it is headed. It is well known for its annual ranking of Global Finance centres but also publishes research on a variety of issues to do with global finance.
 
16) 
scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php
Scimagojr is a great site for finding out various metrics on an academic journal such as its impact factor, number of citations and self-citations as well as the H-index of the Journal

 

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