These sites will help you explore economics and finance on the Web.

Canadian Government and Organizations

Government of Canada http://www.gc.ca
Department of Finance http://www.fin.gc.ca
Canada Customs and Revenue Agency http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca
Provincial Governments http://canada.gc.ca/othergov/prov_e.html
Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation (CDIC) http://www.cdic.ca
Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) http://www.cba.ca/
Canadian Payments Association (CPA) http://www.cdnpay.ca
Royal Canadian Mint http://www.mint.ca
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/eng
Statistics Canada http://www.statcan.ca/start.html

Selected Central Banks

Bank of Canada http://www.bankofcanada.ca
U.S. Federal Reserve System http://www.federalreserve.gov
European Central Bank http://www.ecb.int
Bank of Japan http://www.boj.or.jp
Bank of England http://www.bankofengland.co.uk
Bank of Mexico http://www.banxico.org.mx/
Reserve Bank of Australia http://www.rba.gov.au

Link to http://www.bankofcanada.ca/en/other.htm for a list of central banks worldwide.

International Financial Institutions

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) http://www.bis.org
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) http://www.oecd.org
World Bank http://www.worldbank.org
International Monetary Fund (IMF) http://www.imf.org

Canadian Bond Rating Agencies

Standard & Poor’s http://www.standardandpoors.com/
Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) http://www.dbrs.com

Canadian Economic Associations

Canadian Association for Business Economics http://www.cabe.ca
Canadian Economics Association http://economics.ca

Canadian Public Policy Institutes and Associations

C.D. Howe Institute http://www.cdhowe.org
Fraser Institute http://www.fraserinstitute.ca
Institute for Policy Analysis http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ipa/ipa.html
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives http://www.policyalternatives.ca
Conference Board of Canada http://www.conferenceboard.ca
School of Policy Studies http://qsilver.queensu.ca/sps
John Deutsch Institute http://jdi.econ.queensu.ca/
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research http://www.ciar.ca
Institute for Research on Public Policy http://www.irpp.org
Institute for Public Economics http://www.ualberta.ca/IPE
Canada West Foundation http://www.cwf.ca

U.S. Public Policy Institutes

Cato Institute http://www.cato.org
Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) http://www.nber.org
The Brookings Institution http://www.brook.edu

Other Resources

The Biz/ed Question Bank – Economics http://www.bized.ac.uk/stafsup/options/qbank

The Biz/ed Question Bank is an interactive collection of multiple choice questions on a series of 39 topics. Subjects include “National Income—Keynes and the Classics,” “Wages—Labour supply,” and “Markets—Demand.” Each question comes complete with an explanatory answer and information sources. Because Biz/ed is a British Web site, all monetary amounts will be in British currency.

WebEc – World Wide Web Resources in Economics http://netec.wustl.edu/WebEc

WebEc has a huge list of links to a wide variety of Web-based economics resources.

Economics at About.com http://economics.about.com

This Web site offers a guided tour of economics-related web sites, as well as regular columns and discussion forums.

The Dismal Scientist http://www.dismal.com

This Web site includes timely economic data and analysis, as well as articles on the latest economic happenings.

Economic History Services http://www.eh.net

Contains a variety of sources for economics throughout history.