Tools for Economics and Finance
Commercial Software & Vendors
This category includes econometric, statistical, and mathematical software, as well as spreadsheet add-ins.
Analycorp - risk management and simulation software from Sam Savage, who presented a risk management seminar at the 1999 NABE Annual Meeting.
Aptech Systems - Gauss Mathematical and Statistical System
AREMOS- from Global Insight. It is a comprehensive software package that provides data retrieval and management for time series data, econometrics, modeling and simulation capabilities for forecasting.
BetaHat Econometric Software - Betahat is a Windows based econometrics and economic modeling package that uses state of the art algorithms used by analysts to estimate, simulate, and forecast.
Econometric Software, Inc. - Makers of LimDep, linear and non-linear regression modeling software.
EcoWin - Ecowin is an online macroeconomic & financial database with extensive graphical capabilities. The database contains several hundreds of thousands of time series covering macro economic, economic, Fixed Income, Equities, currency and money markets, Bond market & Bond Indices & Commodities.
Estima - makers of RATS econometrics software.
GAMS - modeling system for mathematical programming problems.
Global Metrix- GlobalMetrix is a commercial information source that is available through the web or directly that contains consistent, global, economic data at a detailed sector or subaggregate level on demand (personal consumption spending, government expenditures, industry sales , market size,i.e. apparent consumption, employment (, productivity (64 sectors), wages & salaries ,international trade and transportation to/from five world regions (NAFTA, Europe, Asia/Pacific, Latin America, Other Developing) for 72 countries and/or 4225 individual world trade routes for 1980 - 2017.
Haver Analytics - specializes in databases and software products for economic analysis and business decision-making.
Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC - Macroeconomic Advisers (MA) site includes a public reading room featuring excerpts from past reports and a "chart of the day". Sample issues of all MA reports may be viewed and current reports can be purchased one-off. MA subscribers have easy access to all MA reports, presentations, tools, and other information.
MathSoft - makers of MathCAD math, science and engineering software
Mathworks - makers of MatLab, for solving mathematical, computational, and model-based technical problems.
MetrixND- Neural network and econometric forecasting software.
Oxmetrics - the name of a family of software packages providing an integrated solution for the econometric analysis of time series, forecasting, financial econometric modelling and for the statistical analysis of cross-section and panel data.
Palisade - risk management and forecasting software.
QMS Software - makers of Eviews, econometric software for Windows.
QuantVision - QuantVision - quantitative financial research and production software suite from TEAM SYSTEMS providing an "open" valuation tool set for equity managers who prefer to build, backtest and implement their own proprietary investment strategies.
QuERI-International - Specializing
in global data that is based on a consistent framework model and product
nomenclature, QuERi-International offers market planners and economists
alike a well thought and economically priced pre-formatted tables covering
market demand and market supply. These tables are designed for non-economists
and business planners as well as for the economic community. These
tables draw upon the full set of global information maintained by the
company.
SAS- SAS data analysis software.
Shazam - Econometric Software.
SPSS - Econometric and data mining software.
Stata - Market Stata, an econometric package that has been sold in various versions since at least 1985. There is also an active support group that generates new routines that can be appended to the standard package.
StatSoft - Statistica, STATISTICA provides the most comprehensive array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining procedures. Its techniques include the widest selection of predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques in one software platform.
TSP International - econometrics software. Versions for UNIX, Linux, and minicomputers.
Vitalnet System - software for health data analysis.
Winsolve - WinSolve is a user-friendly package for solving nonlinear economic models. An evaluation version is available for free download.
Wolfram - makers of Mathematica.
ZipCode World - ZIPCodeWorld.com offers complete and affordable United States ZIP Codes Database and Canadian Postal Codes Database with latitude and longitude coordinates, region and country names as well as other important information.
Free Software & Other Neat Things
EasyReg International - Free Econometrics Software for Easy Regression Analysis
EconSources - A comprehensive educational and non-commercial portal to the best economic information on the web.
FairModel - developed by Ray Fair of Yale University. You can work with a macro model over the web, or download the free software.
Inforum - a non-profit economic consulting and forecasting group specializing in inter-industry and trade modeling. They provide several dozen major US databanks organized into a format usable by their free econometric and time series package called G7. You can download and use their databases with their free software.
ForecastCenter.com - ForecastCenter.com is a focal point for forecasts from a wide range of sources and a community for understanding change.
Forecasting Principles - provides a review of the state of knowledge in forecasting. From the Wharton School.
gretl - Gnu Regression, Econometrics and Time-series Library. Is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language. It is is free software. You may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License ( GPL ) as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Guide to Available Mathematical Software- from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Matrixer - free Russian econometric software.
Smart Economist - Free registration, It summarizes recent working papers of note, and gives links.
Virtual Economy Home Page - Biz/ed / Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Virtual Economy. It includes an interactive model to make changes in economic policy and see the effects on both the macroeconomy and the microeconomy.
