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awesome-economics

A curated collection of links for economists
https://github.com/antontarasenko/awesome-economics

  • MIT OCW Economics - Over 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs.
  • edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.
  • Khan Academy: Economics - Elementary topics.
  • Academic Search - Search across `.edu` and other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet.
  • Foundational Equations of Economics - These equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context.
  • IGM Economic Experts Panel - Top economists reflect on policy-related issues. Some answers contain useful details.
  • AEA Resources for Economists - A list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association.
  • RePEc - Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software.
  • Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Web Services - A list of helpful services.
  • IDEAS RePEc - The largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google: ``site:ideas.repec.org <search term>``. Index sources mentioned below.
  • NBER - Working papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal.
  • SSRN Economics - Working papers, no journal publications.
  • Google Scholar - Searching academic literature in general. Features author pages and citation counters. If you look for economic writings only, IDEAS would be more powerful.
  • FRED2 - 380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app.
  • World Bank Data - International macro time series. Has data import plugins.
  • IMF Data - The standard reference for macro data.
  • Quandl - Aggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software.
  • MEDevEcon - Data related to development economics.
  • Monetary Economics: Data Sources - Overview of macro data sources.
  • OFFSTATS - Links to official data sources by country and subject.
  • International Open Government Dataset Search - Over 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks [like this](http://web.archive.org/web/20140815054106/http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/node/9903). Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error.
  • Dataset Search Engine - Google-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google [search operators](http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html) here.
  • StackExchange Open Data - If you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here.
  • Reddit /r/datasets - One more place to request datasets.
  • LaTeX - Economists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning.
  • Beamer - A LaTeX class for presentations.
  • TikZ - An extension for drawing graphs. A [how-to](http://cremeronline.com/LaTeX/minimaltikz.pdf) and a [manual](http://www.texample.net/media/pgf/builds/pgfmanualCVS2012-11-04.pdf).
  • LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.
  • Zotero - Bibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily.
  • Git - A version control system. Useful if you want to revert changes done months ago or collaborate with other authors. DropBox also has version control, but Git is more explicit. A [short intro](http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/). Or use [GitHub Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/) if you like it simple.
  • Mendeley - Bibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone...
  • Stata - An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:
  • IPython - A Python-based environment. Econometric analysis is done with free packages: statsmodels, SciPy, NumPy, pandas.
  • RStudio - An R-based environment. R is the standard language among statisticians, so the R repositories often contain specialized libraries not available in other languages.
  • Matlab - An industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:
  • Octave
  • Julia - High-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science.
  • Mathematica - Symbolic computations. Free alternative
  • Sage
  • Julia - An open source scientific computing softerware.
  • GitHub - A repository for code and data. Publishing research here is not a common practice, but it's more convenient that alternatives (university home page, DropBox, etc.).
  • GitHub Pages - Simple static websites.
  • GitHub LFS - Large file storage.
  • IPython Notebooks - An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in [data-science-ipython-notebooks](https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks) and [the gallery](https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/A-gallery-of-interesting-IPython-Notebooks).
  • Most common programs used by Economists - A community-managed list of common software.
  • Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications - Covers software mentioned above and some more.
  • How to efficiently manage a statistical analysis project?
  • Top Authors
  • Economic Institutions
  • Research Items
  • Software Items
  • EconAcademics.org
  • Economist's View - Mark Thoma
  • Grasping Reality - Brad DeLong
  • Marginal Revolution - Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
  • VOX CEPR - Members of CEPR
  • Economics Blog Search - A Google-based search service for aforementioned blogs.
  • AEA Blog Directory - The list of major economic blogs.
  • StackExchange Economics - A Q&A website where you can ask and answer questions.
  • /r/GoodEconomics/ - Selected pieces on economic issues.
  • /r/EconPapers/ - Discussing economic papers.
  • Academic Economics - A community with rooms to discuss economics and help members with exercises
  • QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Economics & Econometrics
  • Academic Ranking of World Universities in Economics / Business
  • American Economic Association: Graduate Training in Economics - Overview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics.
  • Job Openings for Economists - The job board by the American Economic Association.
  • Econ Jobs Postings - List of academic job openings.
  • Economics Job Market Rumors - List of job openings for economists. Informal.
  • davidrpugh - Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK.
  • gboehl - Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
  • hmgaudecker - Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
  • jesusfv
  • jstac - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • mwt - Northwestern University, USA
  • nathanlane - Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • nealbob - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  • robertdkirkby
  • trickvi - Hagstofa Íslands, Iceland.
  • EconForge - Team around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models.
  • economics-book - Economics Textbook (Openstax).
  • econpizza - Toolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents.
  • fecon235 - Computational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization.
  • macro_puzzles - A list of puzzles in macroeconomics.
  • pydsge - Tools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints.
  • pyeconomics - Computational economics in Python.
  • QuantEcon - A library for quantitative economics.
  • quantecon_nyu_2016 - Topics in Computational Economics
  • VFI Toolkit - Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU.
  • zice-2014 - Course materials for Zurich Initiative for Computational Economics (ZICE) 2014.
  • Deveconodata Blogspot - Development economics datasets. Updated regularly.
  • Economics Games - Free online classroom games for teaching economics.
  • Quantitative Economics - Lecture series by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski using Python computational tools.
  • Top 100 Economics Blogs - Links to popular economics blogs, with brief descriptions.
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