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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
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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.
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Portals
- RePEc - Web services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software.
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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.
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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.
- 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:
- LyX - A free and simple editor for LaTeX.
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Useful Materials
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Discussions
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Useful Materials
- Marginal Revolution - Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
- EconAcademics.org
- Economist's View - Mark Thoma
- Grasping Reality - Brad DeLong
- /r/GoodEconomics/ - Selected pieces on economic issues.
- /r/EconPapers/ - Discussing economic papers.
- VOX CEPR - Members of CEPR
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Studying
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Courses
- edX Economics - Introductory topics, few prerequisites.
- Khan Academy: Economics - Elementary topics.
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Useful Materials
- 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.
- Quantitative Economics - Lecture series by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski using Python computational tools.
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Career
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Undergraduate
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Graduate
- American Economic Association: Graduate Training in Economics - Overview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics.
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Faculty
- Job Openings for Economists - The job board by the American Economic Association.
- Econ Jobs Postings - List of academic job openings.
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Economics at GitHub
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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.
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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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Links Sent by Readers
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Projects
- Deveconodata Blogspot - Development economics datasets. Updated regularly.
- Top 100 Economics Blogs - Links to popular economics blogs, circa 2016.
- Top 100 Economics Blogs - Links to popular economics blogs, circa 2016.
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