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awesome-economics

Crowd-sourced links for economists, esp. in financial economics with computational interests.
https://github.com/rsvp/awesome-economics

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  • Research

    • 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.
      • Reddit /r/datasets - One more place to request datasets.

    • Portals

      • RePEc - Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software.

    • Articles and Working Papers

      • 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.
      • 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.

    • Software

      • 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.
      • 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.
      • Mathematica - Symbolic computations. Free alternative
      • 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.
      • Software for Researchers: New Data and Applications - Covers software mentioned above and some more.
      • Octave
      • 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).
      • Stata - An industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:
      • Sage
      • LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.

    • Useful Materials

  • Discussions

  • Table of Contents

  • Studying

  • Career

  • Economics at GitHub

    • Economists

      • nathanlane - Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
      • davidrpugh - Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK.
      • gboehl - Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt Germany.
      • hmgaudecker - Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
      • jesusfv
      • jstac - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
      • nealbob - Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
      • robertdkirkby
      • trickvi - Hagstofa Íslands, Iceland.

    • Projects

      • EconForge - Team around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models.
      • VFI Toolkit - Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU.
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Research 26 Economics at GitHub 11 Discussions 7 Career 5 Studying 5 Links Sent by Readers 3 Table of Contents 1 License 1
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Software 13 Useful Materials 13 Economists 9 Projects 6 Data 6 Articles and Working Papers 3 Undergraduate 2 Courses 2 Faculty 2 Portals 1 Graduate 1