Econ Links

Data

• BaTIS (services trade)

• CEPII

• Concordances - EU Ramon, Haveman (industries), Vandenbussche (products)

• Country codes - UN

• Eurostat

• GTAP

• Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS)

• LIS (Luxembourg Income Study Database)

• Monetary values and exchange rates - Swedish rates (and interest rates), World, Historically (in Swedish, long-term), Historically (in Swedish, since 1917)

• NBER

• OECD AI Policy Observatory

• O*Net - US-sponsored occupational information database

• Patent data (Swedish historical patents, 1746-1945)

• PIIAC - OECD survey of skills database

• Sweden - Statistics Sweden, ordering microdata, statistics database; Education survey; Ekonomifakta (Swedish), annual reports of Swedish companies (Swedish), Serrano (firm-level panel data)

• UN Comtrade

• US trade policy actions, since Trump (Sheng Lu)

• World Bank - general, WITS, WDI

• World economic history (Angus Maddison)

• WTO - statistics, data

Papers

• EconPapers WPs

• Ekonomisk Debatt (accessible econ papers, in Swedish)

• Global Labor Organization DPs

• Journal of Economic Perspectives (accessible surveys of topics in economics)

• NBER WPs

• ORU WPs

• SwoPec WPs

Conferences

• Danish International Economics Workshop (February, June)

• EALE (European Association of Labour Economists)

• EEA (European Economic Association), (February, Aug/Sep)

• ILERA (International Labour and Employment Relations Association), (June)

• MWIEG (Midwest International Economics Group) (Spring: February, May; Fall: August, October)

• NOITS (Nordic International Trade Seminars) (February, May)

• AEA (American Economic Association), (April, January)

• ETSG (European Trade Study Group) (April, September)

• NICE (Nordic Initiative for Corporate Economics) (tbc, June)

• SEA (Southern Economic Association), (April, November)

• Economics of Global Interactions, Bari, Italy, (May, September)

• SNEE (Swedish Network for European Studies in Economics and Business), (August, November)

• SOLE (Society of Labor Economists), (May)

• WEA (Western Economics Association), (December, June/July)

• F.R.E.I.T. (Forum for Reasearch in Empirical International Trade) (see website)

News

• Financial Times

• Economist

• Washington Post

• Reuters

• World Trade Online

• Dagens Nyheter (Swedish)

• Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish)

• Dagens Industri (Swedish)

• The Local (On Sweden, in English)

• Pressreader

Blogs and Web-sites

• Raj Chetty

• Aswath Damodaran (finance)

• Angela Duckworth (Character Lab)

• Ekonomistas (Swedish)

• Gregory Mankiw

• Vox EU

Tips and Tools

• AI (ChatGPT, DALL-E-2, MathGPT-3)

• Asana (project management)

• Building a research environment - The Ten Commandments (Assar Lindbeck)

• Data management (Kuriwaki, Long, Wilson et al)  

• Excel - SE-ENG thesaurus

• International economics glossary

• Journal rankings [IDEAS/RePEc, ABS, Lund, IFN (in Swedish)] 

• LaTeX - Overleaf, Special symbols

• Machine learning for economists (Sansone, Flachaire, He)

• Machine learning resources (cheatsheets)

• Norstedts (Swedish-English dictionary)

• Online Causal Inference Seminar

• Python for Mac

• Python for economists (intro, extensive, stata-python, causal, ML)

• Stata - Masayuki Kudamatsu, UCLA, Princeton

• Statistics - SE-ENG dictionary

• Teaching resources - AEA, TEN, AI-in-school (in Swedish)

• Tips for economists (Karadja, Kudamatsu)

• Worldmapper

Funding

Here's a brief list of Swedish research funders.

• Gunvor and Josef Anérs Stiftelse

• Handelsbanken

• Ollie and Elof Ericssons Stiftelser (junior researchers)

• Siamon (junior researcher's conference attendance, etc)

• Sven and Dagmar Saléns Stiftelser

• The Swedish Scientific Council

• Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse