Hello all, this message comes a little bit late due to a heavy travel schedule. The big news this month is that EDIRC, the database of institutions used in RePEc for affiliations, has now over 10000 entries. It is quite amazing that there are some many departments, centers, institutes and government institutions dedicated to Economics. Also, the authors registered with RePEc have now claimed over 200000 works in their profiles, or about 46% of all listed works. Over the past month, we had 502,334 file downloads and 1,916,171 abstract views. The thresholds we passed during last month are: 330000 online items 210000 abstracts 200000 works claimed in author profiles 190000 online articles 70000 papers announced through NEP 70000 papers with references extracted 15000 articles with references extracted 11000 authors registered 10000 institutions listed 1500 book chapters listed Christian Zimmermann FIGUGEGL! Department of Economics University of Connecticut 341 Mansfield Road, Unit 1063 Storrs, CT 06269-1063 http://ideas.repec.org/zimm/ christian.zimmermann@uconn.edu http://ideas.repec.org/e/pzi1.html