FACILITIES AND RESOURCES
Libraries
Stanford University's library system has few equals anywhere in the world. Its journal,
book, and government document collections are absolutely comprehensive. Graduate students
in economics can use the Green Library, which carries all major journals in economics, a
huge collection of books, and an official US government document repository. Reserve
materials for graduate courses are in Meyer Library. In addition, graduate students have
access to the Business School's Jackson Library, which also has a complete journal
collection and many books. Jackson houses a complete collection of business and financial
information; for example, it has every 10K statement ever filed by a corporation in the
United States. Jackson's journal collection is non-circulating, which means that you can
always find the article you are looking for.
Computer Facilities
Workstations: The economics department has access to a large network (the Leland Distributed Computing System) of workstations (SUNs, HPs, and SGIs). The computers on this network support a wide range of computing software (SAS, TSP, etc.), as well as several electronic mail systems. Students can access these facilities from any WAN (wide area network) link in the department, on campus, or from modem links.
Microcomputers: There is a computing lab in the department which contains many PCs and several workstations, as well as printing facilities. These computers are connected to the department's LAN (local area network), and to Stanford's WAN. Students may obtain daytime and after hours access to these labs.
RELATED DEPARTMENTS
Many prominent economists are associated with other Stanford departments, graduate programs, or research institutions. Many of these are formally affiliated with the Department of Economics.
Stanford's Graduate School of Business is considered by many to be the finest in the country. Of particular interest to our graduate students are its strengths in economic theory and finance. Finance professor William Sharpe is a Nobel Laureate. Business School professors with courtesy appointments in the Economics Department include David Baron, David Kreps, John Roberts, Robert Wilson, and Mark Wolfson.
The Hoover Institution, a well known research organization, is located only steps from the Economics Department. Hoover maintains an outstanding group of permanent and visiting economists, including Nobel Laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman. Thomas Sargent, a leading macroeconomist, and Barry Weingast, a leading political economist, are Senior Fellows at Hoover, and have courtesy appointments in the Economics Department.
Other well known economists have appointments in various departments of the university. Mitchell Polinsky, a specialist in the field of Law and Economics in the Law School, medical economist Alan Garber, Health Research & Policy professor Laurence Baker, and Japanese specialist Ken-Ichi Imai at the Institute for International Studies also have courtesy appointments in the Department of Economics.
Our department also maintains informal links with economists working in the Departments of Engineering Economic Systems & Operations Research, Education, and Political Science. In addition, research institutes such as the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Stanford Institure for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE), and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) all bring a constant stream of prominent visiting economists from throughout the world.
Students benefit from the rich and diverse intellectual environment provided by this extensive community of economists. It is not unusual to find two or three seminars of interest taking place on any given day, and organizations such as the Hoover Institution, SIEPR, SITE, and NBER run frequent and well-attended conferences. During the Summer Session, Stanford becomes a major center for economic theorists from throughout the world who come to attend the SITE summer workshop. The economics community also provides students with numerous opportunities for research assistantships and sources of support for dissertation research.
