Useful Resources

A. Useful Resources for Young Researchers

This is a short list of books, articles, and notes that I found useful for young economists

• 국내

  • 미국에서 보건학 석/박사 과정을 시작하는 후배님들에게 드리는 10가지 이야기 (김승섭) Link

  • 학문을 직업으로 삼으려는 젊은 학자들을 위하여 (오욱환) Link
    Also, see 학문을 직업으로 삼을지는 모르겠지만 일단 대학원에 온 사람들을 위하여 Link

  • 한국에서 박사하기 (강수영 외) Link

  • 대학원생 때 알았더라면 좋았을 것들 (엄태웅 외) Link

• 해외

  • 10 Q&A: Experienced Advice for “Lost” Graduate Students in Economics (Ariel Rubinstein) Link

  • Doing Economics (Marc F. Bellemare) Link

  • Advice for Phd Students in Economics (Chris Roth and David Schindler) Link

B. Useful Resources for (Korean) Trade Economists

Here I list a few trade-relevant useful resources that I am aware of (and I really like!). I will occasionally update the page.

• Handbook 

  • Handbook of International Economics (Vol 5: 2022,  Vol 4: 2014)

  • Handbook of Commercial Policy (Vol 1: 2016) 

• Textbooks

  • Graduate

    • Advanced International Trade (Robert Feenstra) (Link)

    • Global Production: Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure (Pol Antras) (Link)

    • Theory of International Trade: A Dual, General Equilibrium Approach (Avinash Dixit and Victor Norman) (Link)

  • Undergraduate

    • International Economics (Paul Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, and Marc Melitz) (Link)

    • International Economics (Robert Feenstra and Alan Taylor)  (Link)

    • International Trade: Theory and Evidence (James Markusen and Keith Maskus) (Link)

    • International Trade (John McLaren) (Link)

    • 국제경제론 (김신행, 김태기) (Link)

    • 국제경제론 (김인준, 이영섭) (Link)

    • 국제무역론 (남종현, 이홍식) (Link)

• Lecture Notes

  • Graduate

    • Costas Arkolakis (Yale) and Treb Allen (Dartmouth) (Link) (Link)

    • Thomas Chaney (Science Fo) (Link)

    • Jonathan Dingel (Chicago) (Link)

    • Dave Donaldson and Arnaud Costinot (MIT) (Link) (Link)

    • Jonathan Eaton (Penn State) and Samuel Kortum (Yale) (Link)

    • Fabian Eckert (UCSD) (Link)

    • Tim Kehoe (Minnesota) (Link)

    • Ahmad Lashkaripour (Indiana) (Link)

    • Isabelle Mejean and Greg Corcos (Ecole polytechnique) (Link)

    • Marc-Andreas Muendler (UCSD) (Link)

    • Kim Ruhl (Wisconsin) (Link Github)

      • He also has a great website for learning data science for economists. (Link)   

    • Asha Sundaram (Auckland) (Link)

    • Daniel Trefler (Toronto) (Link)

    • Fabian Trottner (UCSD) (Link)

• Undergraduate

  • Treb Allen (Dartmouth) (Link)

  • Arnaud Costinot (MIT) (Link)

  • Thibault Fally (Berkeley) (Link)

  • Ralph Ossa (Zurich) (Link)

  • Luca Macedoni (Aarhus) (Youtube)

• Trade-relevant books for non-expert readers 

(If Korean-translation versions are available, I mark a ※ sign and write a title of the Korean-translated version.)

• • "Why Nations Fail" (2012 Daron Acemoglu) ※ 국가는 왜 실패하는가

  • "The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations" (2021 Philippe Aghion, Celine Antonin, Simon Bunel) ※ 창조적 파괴의 힘

  • "The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines" (2022 David Autor)

  • "The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization" (2016 Richard Baldwin) ※ 그레이트 컨버전스

  • "The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work" (2019 Richard Baldwin) 

  • "A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World" (2008 William Bernstein) ※ 무역의 세계사

  • "Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone" (2021 David Blanchflower)

  • "The Globalization of Inequality" (2017 François Bourguignon)

  • "Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital" (2020 Kimberly Clausing)

  • "Power and Plenty" (2007 Ronald Findlay and Kevin O'Rourke) ※ 권력과 부

  • "The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation" (2019 Carl Frey)

  • "Understanding Global Trade " (2011 Elhanan Helpman) ※ 글로벌 무역의 이해

  • "Globalization And Inequality " (2018 Elhanan Helpman)

  • "Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word" (2020 Fred Hochberg) ※ 무역의 힘

  • "Free Trade under Fire" (2020 Douglas Irwin) ※ 공격받는 자유무역

  • "Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations " (1995 Paul Krugman) ※ 경제학의 향연

  • "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger " (2016 Marc Levinson) ※ 더 박스

  • "Outside The Box: How Globalization Changed From Moving Stuff To Spreading Ideas" (2020 Marc Levinson)  ※ 세계화의 종말과 새로운 시작

  • "Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization" (2017 Branko Milanovic) ※ 왜 우리는 더 불공평해졌는가

  • "The New Geography of Jobs" (2013 Enrico Moretti) ※ 직업의 지리학

  • "Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy" (2017 Dani Rodrik)

  • "The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions" (2020 Jeffrey Sachs)

  • "The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay" (2020  Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman) ※ 그들은 왜 나보다 덜 내는가

  • "Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited" (2018 Joseph Stiglitz) ※ 세계화와 그 불만

  • "How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region" (2013 Joe Studwell) ※ 아시아의 힘

• Online Virtual Seminars and Conferences

  • FREIT Empirical Trade Online Seminars (Link)

  • CEPR Voxeu (Link Link)

  • Geneva Trade and Development Seminars (Link)

  • Virtual International Trade and Macro Seminar (Virtual ITM) (Link, Youtube)

  • Virtual Macro Seminar (Link, Youtube)

  • Banco Central de Chile (Link)

• Online Lectures

  • AEA lectures: Dave Donaldson (MIT) and Marc Melitz (Harvard) (Link)

  • Urban Economics Association Summer Camp (Link)

  • STEG virtual courses on macro development (Link)

• Podcasts

  • "Trade Talks" by Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE) (Link)

• Conferences for Trade Economists

  • Forum for Research in International Trade (FREIT) (Link)

  • Midwest International Trade Meeting (Link)

  • European Trade Meeting (Link)

  • Asia-Pacific Trade Meeting (Link)

  • 한국국제경제학회 (Link)

  • 한국국제통상학회 (Link)

• Blogs by trade economists

  • Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) (Link)

  • Researchbeetle (In Korean) (Link) - I am a member of this group.

• Research Institutes

  • Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) (Link)

• Research Institutes (Government sponsored institutes in Korea)

  • Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET: 산업연구원)  (Link)

  • Korea Development Institute (KDI: 한국개발연구원) (Link)

  • Korea Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP: 대외경제정책연구원) (Link)

• Government (Korea) 

  • 산업통상자원부 보도자료 (Link)

• Media

  • New York Times (Link)

  • The Economist (Link)

  • PBS (Frontline) (Link)

  • Project Syndicate (Link)

• Data Science in Economics

  • Scott Cunningham's "Causal Inference: Mixtape" (Book) (Sessions)

  • Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's Applied Empirical Methods (Link)

  • Julian Hinz's Data Science in International Economics Research (Link)

  • Grant McDermott’s Data Science for Economists (Link)

  • Ed Rubin's Econometrics (MHE based notes) (Link) 

  • Kim Ruhl's Economics and Data (Link)

  • Yuta Toyoma's Applied Econometrics (Link)

  • Matt Woerman's Topics in Advanced Econometrics (Link)

  • 인과추론의 데이터 과학 (Link)
    - Korea Summer Workshop on Causal Inference 2023 (Link)