Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Project EOS: Market Characteristics

Finding Market Characteristics

You can find characteristics for worldwide, United States, and German markets using the resources listed to the right. Look for information about the countries, about the industry, and about specific companies.

ProQuest One Business
- This link opens in a new window
Online business library database of millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. See Vendor's guide for useful information.
Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
Business Source Complete
- This link opens in a new window
Click the "Trade Publications" link along the left side of your search results to limit to publications related to your industry.
It can also be searched using Enhanced Interface Searching.
Funding provided by the College of Business & Economics.
IBISWorld
- This link opens in a new window
Detailed industry market reports for 700+ areas of the U.S. economy. Each report contains statistics on the previous 5 years, future 5 years’ projections, analysts’ commentary, and risk ratings. Includes some state-level and global industry reports.
OECD iLibrary
This database includes statistics and reports on economic topics, trade, and much more.
Access provided by UW Madison.

CIA World Factbook (US Central Intelligence Agency)
Select a country and find about its geography, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.
globalEDGE
"Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University (MSU-CIBER), globalEDGE™is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities." Use the Get globalEDGE Insights section in the center of the page to search by trade bloc, country, state, or industry.