search_repec
Search the RePEc/IDEAS economics bibliography with 4.5M+ items, including working papers from NBER, Federal Reserve, and top journals. Filter by year, series, document type, and sort by relevance or citations.
Instructions
Search economics papers on RePEc/IDEAS - the largest open economics bibliography.
USE THIS TOOL WHEN:
- Searching for ECONOMICS research (macro, micro, finance, econometrics)
- You need working papers from NBER, Federal Reserve, World Bank, etc.
- You want to find papers by JEL classification
- Searching for economic policy analysis
COVERAGE: 4.5M+ items including:
- Working Papers: NBER, Fed banks, ECB, IMF, World Bank
- Journal Articles: AER, JPE, QJE, Econometrica, etc.
- Books and Book Chapters
SEARCH SYNTAX:
- Boolean: + for AND, | for OR, ~ for NOT (e.g., 'money ~liquidity')
- Phrase: use double quotes (e.g., '"monetary policy"')
- Author(Year): e.g., 'Acemoglu (2019)' or 'Kydland Prescott (1977)'
- Synonyms: automatic (labor=labour, USA=United States)
- Word stemming: automatic (find matches finds, finding, findings)
LIMITATION: RePEc provides metadata only, not full PDFs.
PDFs are hosted at original institutions (often freely available).
Args:
query: Search terms with optional boolean operators.
max_results: Number of results (default: 10).
year_from: Optional start year filter (e.g., 2020).
year_to: Optional end year filter (e.g., 2025).
search_field: Where to search, one of:
- 'all': Whole record (default)
- 'abstract': Abstract only
- 'keywords': Keywords only
- 'title': Title only
- 'author': Author only
sort_by: How to sort results, one of:
- 'relevance': Most relevant (default)
- 'newest': Most recent first
- 'oldest': Oldest first
- 'citations': Most cited first
- 'recent_relevant': Recent and relevant
- 'relevant_cited': Relevant and cited
doc_type: Document type filter, one of:
- 'all': All types (default)
- 'articles': Journal articles
- 'papers': Working papers (NBER, Fed, etc.)
- 'chapters': Book chapters
- 'books': Books
- 'software': Software components
series: Institution/journal series to search within, one of:
- Institutions: 'nber', 'imf', 'worldbank', 'ecb', 'bis', 'cepr', 'iza'
- Federal Reserve: 'fed', 'fed_ny', 'fed_chicago', 'fed_stlouis'
- Top 5 Journals: 'aer', 'jpe', 'qje', 'econometrica', 'restud'
- Other journals: 'jfe', 'jme', 'aej_macro', 'aej_micro', 'aej_applied'
Returns:
List of paper dicts with: paper_id (RePEc handle), title, authors,
abstract, published_date, url, categories (JEL codes).
Example:
search_repec('inflation', series='nber') # Search NBER only
search_repec('causal inference', series='aer', sort_by='newest')
search_repec('machine learning', series='fed', year_from=2020)Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | Yes | ||
| max_results | No | ||
| year_from | No | ||
| year_to | No | ||
| search_field | No | all | |
| sort_by | No | relevance | |
| doc_type | No | all | |
| series | No |