awesome-economics

Economics resource repository

A curated collection of links and resources for studying and learning economics.

A curated collection of links for economists

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Awesome Economics / Studying / Courses

MIT OCW EconomicsOver 100 courses covering all major fields of economics. Courses include prerequisites, recommended textbooks, lecture slides, and assignments. Undergraduate and graduate programs
edX EconomicsIntroductory topics, few prerequisites
Khan Academy: EconomicsElementary topics

Awesome Economics / Studying / Useful Materials

Academic SearchSearch across and other educational domains. These materials are more reliable than the big Internet
Foundational Equations of EconomicsThese equations show principles behind "thinking like an economist". Graduate textbooks put these equiations in context
IGM Economic Experts PanelTop economists reflect on policy-related issues. Some answers contain useful details
AEA Resources for EconomistsA list of useful links maintained by the American Economic Association

Awesome Economics / Research / Portals

RePEcWeb services for economic researchers: bibliography, blog aggregator, new working papers, software
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis: Web ServicesA list of helpful services

Awesome Economics / Research / Articles and Working Papers

IDEAS RePEcThe largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google: . Index sources mentioned below
NBERWorking papers by major researchers. Many of these papers get published in peer-reviewed journal
SSRN EconomicsWorking papers, no journal publications
Google ScholarSearching academic literature in general. Features author pages and citation counters. If you look for economic writings only, IDEAS would be more powerful

Awesome Economics / Research / Data

FRED2380,000 (macro) time series from 80 sources. Supports plugins for importing data into Excel, Stata, R, and others. Has a mobile app
World Bank DataInternational macro time series. Has data import plugins
IMF DataThe standard reference for macro data
QuandlAggregate financial and economic data from multiple sources. Some data vendors sell their data via this service. Good integration with statistical software
MEDevEconData related to development economics
Monetary Economics: Data SourcesOverview of macro data sources
OFFSTATSLinks to official data sources by country and subject
International Open Government Dataset SearchOver 1,000,000 government datasets. When works, this service looks . Otherwise, you'll see a 403 error
Dataset Search EngineGoogle-based search over 200 data sources, including those mentioned here. You can use Google here
StackExchange Open DataIf you haven't found the data you were looking for, you can ask it here
Reddit /r/datasetsOne more place to request datasets

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

LaTeXEconomists write in LaTeX because it handles mathematics and references better than Word or LibreOffice. If you write regularly, LaTeX is worth learning

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / LaTeX

BeamerA LaTeX class for presentations
TikZAn extension for drawing graphs. A and a

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

LyXA free and simple editor for LaTeX
ZoteroBibliography management. Also install (a) Zotero browser plugin to import papers from RePEc to your library; (b) Zotero-LyX plugin to cite literature easily
GitA 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 . Or use if you like it simple
MendeleyBibliography management. Support synchronization on multiple plateforms: Mac, Windows, Ipad, Phone
StataAn industry standard for statistical computations in economics. Free alternatives:

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Stata

IPythonA Python-based environment. Econometric analysis is done with free packages: statsmodels, SciPy, NumPy, pandas
RStudioAn R-based environment. R is the standard language among statisticians, so the R repositories often contain specialized libraries not available in other languages

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

MatlabAn industry standard for modeling and numerical optimization in economics. Free alternatives:

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Matlab

Octave
JuliaHigh-level dynamic programming language designed to address the needs of high-performance numerical analysis and computational science

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

MathematicaSymbolic computations. Free alternative

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Mathematica

Sage

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

JuliaAn open source scientific computing softerware
GitHubA 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.)

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / GitHub

GitHub PagesSimple static websites
GitHub LFSLarge file storage

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

IPython NotebooksAn interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in and
Most common programs used by EconomistsA community-managed list of common software
Software for Researchers: New Data and ApplicationsCovers software mentioned above and some more

Awesome Economics / Research / Useful Materials

How to efficiently manage a statistical analysis project?

Awesome Economics / Research / Useful Materials / RePEc Rankings by citations

Top Authors
Economic Institutions
Research Items
Software Items

Awesome Economics / Discussions / Blogs

EconAcademics.org
Economist's ViewMark Thoma
Grasping RealityBrad DeLong
Marginal RevolutionTyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
VOX CEPRMembers of CEPR

Awesome Economics / Discussions

Economics Blog SearchA Google-based search service for aforementioned blogs
AEA Blog DirectoryThe list of major economic blogs
StackExchange EconomicsA Q&A website where you can ask and answer questions

Awesome Economics / Discussions / Reddit

/r/GoodEconomics/Selected pieces on economic issues
/r/EconPapers/Discussing economic papers

Awesome Economics / Discussions / Discord

Academic EconomicsA community with rooms to discuss economics and help members with exercises

Awesome Economics / Career / Undergraduate / University rankings

QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 - Economics & Econometrics
Academic Ranking of World Universities in Economics / Business

Awesome Economics / Career / Graduate

American Economic Association: Graduate Training in EconomicsOverview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics

Awesome Economics / Career / Faculty

Job Openings for EconomistsThe job board by the American Economic Association
Econ Jobs PostingsList of academic job openings
Economics Job Market RumorsList of job openings for economists. Informal

Awesome Economics / Economics on GitHub / Economists

davidrpughInstitute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford Martin School; Oxford Mathematical Institute, Oxford, UK
gboehlUniversität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
hmgaudeckerUniversität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
jesusfv
jstacAustralian National University, Canberra, Australia
mwtNorthwestern University, USA
nathanlaneInstitute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
nealbobAustralian National University, Canberra, Australia
robertdkirkby
trickviHagstofa Íslands, Iceland

Awesome Economics / Economics on GitHub / Projects

EconForgeTeam around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models
economics-book38about 8 years agoEconomics Textbook (Openstax)
econpizza79almost 2 years agoToolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents
fecon2351,147over 3 years agoComputational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization
macro_puzzles104about 5 years agoA list of puzzles in macroeconomics
pydsge57about 2 years agoTools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints
pyeconomics211over 12 years agoComputational economics in Python
QuantEconA library for quantitative economics
quantecon_nyu_2016134over 10 years agoTopics in Computational Economics
VFI ToolkitMatlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU
zice-201432over 12 years agoCourse materials for Zurich Initiative for Computational Economics (ZICE) 2014
Deveconodata BlogspotDevelopment economics datasets. Updated regularly
Economics GamesFree online classroom games for teaching economics
Quantitative EconomicsLecture series by Thomas J. Sargent and John Stachurski using Python computational tools
Top 100 Economics BlogsLinks to popular economics blogs, with brief descriptions

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