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 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 | ||
| robertdkirkby | |||
| 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 7 years ago | Economics Textbook (Openstax) |
| econpizza | 79 | 11 months ago | Toolbox to solve and simulate nonlinear models with heterogeneous agents |
| fecon235 | 1,147 | almost 3 years ago | Computational tools for financial economics, Python code base and tutorials using Jupyter notebooks, includes data retrieval, graphics, and optimization |
| macro_puzzles | 104 | about 4 years ago | A list of puzzles in macroeconomics |
| pydsge | 57 | over 1 year ago | Tools to solve, filter, and estimate DSGE models with occasionally binding constraints |
| pyeconomics | 211 | almost 12 years ago | Computational economics in Python |
| QuantEcon | A library for quantitative economics | ||
| quantecon_nyu_2016 | 134 | over 9 years ago | Topics in Computational Economics |
| VFI Toolkit | Matlab toolkit for Value Function Iteration on GPU | ||
| zice-2014 | 32 | over 11 years ago | Course materials for Zurich Initiative for Computational Economics (ZICE) 2014 |
Awesome Economics / Links Sent by Readers | |||
| 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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