Useful Links

Academic Life and Teaching

David Romer's Rules for Making it Through Graduate School and Finishing Your Dissertation

Latex and Related

Latex Tips, Tricks, Shortcuts, and Nuances: "a place for everyone to share all the little things that make life easy when using LaTeX"

JabRef: Reference manager for making bibliographies in LaTex

Making Slides...And Doing It With Beamer: Make slides in LaTex

A Very Minimal Introduction to TikZ: Make nice figures in LaTex, by Jacques Cremer

Econometrics and Computation

Model-Free Impulse Responses: Òscar Jordà's "local projection" method is simple to implement and growing in use.

Vector Autoregressive Models and Cointegration: Relatively easy-to-follow guide by Heino Bohn Nielsen

Vector Autoregression and Cointegration: Somewhat more technical guide by Mark Watson

Write Your Own Bootstrap Program: Bootstrap in Stata

Economic History

MGM Inflation Infomercial: A 10-minute video from June 1933 that ran in theaters before feature films to explain Roosevelt's inflationary policies to the public