New E-Resources at Northwestern

Northwestern University Library now has access to 80 Sage reference handbooks.  Access is via the Library’s catalog NUcat or from the following list.

Journal of Public Policy

The Journal of Public Policy applies social science theories and concepts to significant political, economic and social issues and to the ways in which public policies are made. Its articles deal with topics of concern to public policy scholars in America, Europe, Japan and other advanced industrial nations. The journal often publishes articles that cut across disciplines, such as environmental issues, international political economy, regulatory policy and European Union processes.  – Publisher’s blurb.

Earlier issues of the Journal of Public Policy are available via JSTOR.

Artificial Neural Networks in Finance and Manufacturing

Artificial Neural Networks in Finance and Manufacturing presents many state-of-the-art and diverse applications to finance and manufacturing, along with underlying neural network theories and architectures. It offers researchers and practitioners the opportunity to access exciting and cutting-edge research focusing on neural network applications, combining two aspects of economic domain in a single and consolidated volume. – Publisher’s blurb.

JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI Collection

Northwestern University Library now has access to all journal titles in the JSTOR Arts & Sciences VI collection.  The collection currently has 67 titles, with many more to come.   Subject coverage for this collection is in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.

The titles currently accessible are listed below.  Coverage information is available via JSTOR.

Individual title access is available through the Library’s ER and will shortly be in NUcat.

Revue d’études comparatives est-ouest

This journal was created in 1970 by the CNRS to interrogate the geopolitical turmoil of Europe as a continent which has given rise to a higher level of uncertainty and stronger economical discrepancies. It is a leading authoritative source to a better understanding of the Eastern European region and countries, and their own ways towards democracy and market economy. – Publisher’s blurb.

Depuis sa création en 1970 par le CNRS, le bouleversement de la carte géopolitique du continent européen fait surgir davantage d’interrogations que de certitudes et les discontinuités économiques se renforcent. La Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest répond à la nécessité de mieux connaître les pays de cette zone et d’en comprendre les mutations vers la démocratie et l’économie de marché. – Publisher’s blurb.

Published in French with abstracts in English.

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook

The Yearbook for Economic History publishes essays on economic history, reports and discussions on current research and literature.   It presents new research and projects aimed for economic and social historians.

Text in English or German.

Access to this title is restricted to the Northwestern University Evanston campus.

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA) publishes theoretical and empirical research in financial economics. Topics include corporate finance, investments, capital and security markets, and quantitative methods of particular relevance to financial researchers. – Publisher’s blurb.

Capital Changes Reports

Provides comprehensive coverage of changes to a corporation’s capital structure which have federal income tax effects on security holders. This resource tracks the capital history of the “target” company, i.e., the company whose security holders are affected by the transaction. Coverage includes public companies except those that are traded OTC.

Users must enter a Northwestern University email address to use this resource and save their preferences.

Access available to Capital Changes section only.

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy backfiles

Northwestern University Library now has access to the backfiles of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. Access is from volume 1 (1992) to the present.

JEMS provides a leading forum for interaction and research on the competitive strategies of managers and the organizational structure of firms. The journal features theoretical and empirical industrial organization, applied game theory, and management strategy.

Journal of Economic Issues

The Journal of Economic Issues is an internationally respected journal of institutional and evolutionary economics and serves as the official journal of the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE). JEI publishes articles that describe aspects of evolving economies, economic problems, economic policy, economic history, and methodology. – Publisher’s blurb.