Resources
I will be adding useful links onto this page over time. It is mainly for my own reference.
Useful Tools/Resources/Advices
1. Latex Capabilities in Gmail. Send and receive Latex in email! Certainly there isn’t a need to say more? Available here.
2. Advices for the aspiring economists. Available here.
3. What makes a good journal editor? i.e. Also a good piece for the young economist on writing well. Available here.
4. All sorts of advices from this blog, mainly catered to Australian PhD students. Available here.
Economics Fun
1. The Economics of Seinfeld. Learn some economics the fun way! Available here.
Videos on PhD
1. Youtube Link: The Simpsons on PhD
2. Youtube Link: So, you want to get a PhD in Economics?
Matlab Codes
1. Code and data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide. – Useful guide to organising the versions of your code and so on. I believe most of us (graduate students) learned this the hard way.
2. Gary Koop’s codes – Includes Factor models, TVP-VARs, Bayesian VARs. Excellent place to start learning the nitty gritty bits of Matlab codes on Bayesian econometrics.
3. Econometrics Toolbox – Collection of econometrics matlab routines by James P. LeSage. Includes spatial econometrics routines.
4. Serena Ng’s codes – Includes codes on determining number of factors in a dataset, and Factor VAR.
5. Bruce Hansen’s codes – Includes useful codes on threshold models. There is also an econometrics textbook written by Bruce Hansen for graduate students.
Open Source Courses
3. edX – Free courses from edX universities.
Very impressive online education website. I’ve gone through a few lectures and they have been very impressive.
Updated 11 May 2013