Director: Greg Northcraft

The Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR or Office of Research) has served the College of Business and the state of Illinois for over sixty years with research and outreach programs focusing on the U.S. and state economies. Applied research, economic forecasting, database management, and the dissemination of research findings are among the Bureau's chief activities.

Mission Statement: The primary mission of the Bureau of Economic and Business Research is to foster research by the College of Business faculty and graduate students and to disseminate research results to a national and international audience.

In support of this mission, the office engages in a variety of activities, including production and distribution of faculty working papers, and publication/editorial management of research-related journals.

BEBR coordinates and supports the activities of the college Research and Learning Centers by providing administrative services, financial support and management, and research assistance.

Primary Functions :

Research-related funding. BEBR offers an annual spring competition for ¼-time research assistants for the summer. Faculty members submit applications and the Research Policy Committee selects the recipients. BEBR also coordinates the annual Irwin Fellowship and the Ferber Award.

Coordination of data resources for research. BEBR subscribes to the following Wharton Research Data Services on behalf of the faculty and graduate students. This subscription is billed to the departments on an annual basis for faculty WRDS accounts. There is no charge for College of Business Grad Student WRDS accounts, however there is a $500 annual charge for grad students located outside the College of Business. Contact Linda Kelley for more information: lhuff@uiuc.edu

• Audit Analytics
  COMPUSTAT North America
  CRSP
  First Call
  I/B/E/S
  Mergent FISD
  NYSE TAQ
  OptionMetrics
  Thomson Financial
  The Federal Reserve Bank Reports contains three databases collected from Federal Reserve Banks. Two of them (Foreign Exchanges and Interest Rates) come from reports published for the Federal Reserve Board (H.10 and H.15 reports). The other one contains the Coincident State Indexes from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
  
  Free access data sets:
  Bank Regulatory
  Blockholders
  CBOE Indexes
  DMEF
  Dow Jones
  FDIC
  Fama French, Momentum, and Liquidity
  Federal Reserve Bank Reports
  PHLX
  Penn World Tables
  SEC Disclosure of Order Execution
  TRACE

BEBR and the Business Community
The success of BEBR and its programs depends on the involvement and support of the business community. The BEBR Affiliates Program enables business leaders to become involved both personally and financially in BEBR and its activities. BEBR Affiliates contribute toward:

• Graduate fellowships
• Research
• Data and equipment purchase
• Conferences, seminars, and publications

For more information about BEBR, please contact:

College of Business
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
430 Wohlers Hall
1206 South Sixth Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Phone: 217/244-3100
Fax: 217/333-7410
E-mail: lhuff@uiuc.edu