awesome-economics

Economics resource hub

A curated collection of links and resources for economists

A curated collection of links for economists

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Awesome Economics / Studying / Courses

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

Awesome Economics / Studying / Useful Materials

Academic Search Search across 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

Awesome Economics / Research / Portals

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

Awesome Economics / Research / Articles and Working Papers

IDEAS RePEc The largest database of economics publications (2,000,000 items). Searching through papers is easier with Google: . 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

Awesome Economics / Research / Data

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 . 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 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

Awesome Economics / Research / 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

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / LaTeX

Beamer A LaTeX class for presentations
TikZ An extension for drawing graphs. A and a

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

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 . Or use 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:

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Stata

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

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

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

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Matlab

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

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

Mathematica Symbolic computations. Free alternative

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / Mathematica

Sage

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

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.)

Awesome Economics / Research / Software / GitHub

GitHub Pages Simple static websites
GitHub LFS Large file storage

Awesome Economics / Research / Software

IPython Notebooks An interactive alternative to LaTeX and Word. See examples how notebooks look like in and
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

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 View Mark Thoma
Grasping Reality Brad DeLong
Marginal Revolution Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
VOX CEPR Members of CEPR

Awesome Economics / Discussions

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

Awesome Economics / Discussions / Reddit

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

Awesome Economics / Discussions / Discord

Academic Economics A 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 Economics Overview of the programs, requirements, and advices to those considering a PhD program in economics

Awesome Economics / Career / Faculty

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

Awesome Economics / Economics on GitHub / Economists

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
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trickvi Hagstofa Íslands, Iceland

Awesome Economics / Economics on GitHub / Projects

EconForge Team around Pablo Winant providing packages to solve economic models
economics-book 38 over 6 years ago Economics Textbook (Openstax)
econpizza 78 11 days ago Toolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents
fecon235 1,145 almost 2 years ago Computational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization
macro_puzzles 104 over 3 years ago A list of puzzles in macroeconomics
pydsge 56 4 months ago Tools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints
pyeconomics 211 almost 11 years ago Computational economics in Python
QuantEcon A library for quantitative economics
quantecon_nyu_2016 134 over 8 years ago Topics in Computational Economics
VFI Toolkit Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU
zice-2014 32 almost 11 years ago 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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