I keep this page for my students. It follows the order a research project usually takes: finding a question, learning the background, getting data, choosing methods, keeping up with new work and deciding where to publish. All links were checked in September 2026; if one breaks, please let me know.
Exploring the current work of many researchers can inspire your future research. Take a look at topics of past editions!
Society for Economic Dynamics (SED) annual meeting (2026 programme)
International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance (ICMAIF) (past years)
International Journal of Central Banking (IJCB) research conferences
EAERE annual conferences (environmental and resource economics)
Banco Central do Brasil research agenda, 2026–2029 (PDF, in Portuguese)
Bank Underground (blog by Bank of England staff)
Central Banking (research news)
Journal of Economic Perspectives, free to read: short, non-technical articles on current research and policy questions
VoxEU, short columns by economists on research and policy (CEPR)
Intermediate Macroeconomics by Julio Garín, Robert Lester and Eric Sims (free textbook, 2021)
Intermediate Macroeconomics video lectures by Pedro Brinca (YouTube)
Benjamin Moll’s lectures, from Intermediate Macroeconomics at the LSE to heterogeneous-agent macro
Lecture Notes on Macroeconomics by Karl Whelan (University College Dublin)
Open Economy Macroeconomics by Martín Uribe and Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé (Princeton University Press, 2017)
International Macroeconomics: A Modern Approach by Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe and Michael Woodford (Princeton University Press, 2022)
Macroeconomics (PhD level) by Azzimonti, Krusell, McKay and Mukoyama: slides, code and data are online; the book is due from Oxford University Press in November 2026
Macroeconometrics by Alessia Paccagnini (De Gruyter Brill, 2026): a master’s and PhD textbook, from unit roots and VARs to local projections, Bayesian methods and DSGE models, with exercises in Python, R and MATLAB (not open access; free code examples on her site)
Wouter den Haan’s lecture notes and slides: DSGE models, numerical methods, heterogeneous agents and Dynare
Computational Methods for Economists by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: lecture notes for a two-semester course, with code
AEA Data and Code Repository: replication packages for AEA journals (formerly openICPSR, now part of ICPSR)
ICPSR data archive (University of Michigan)
data.europa.eu: the official portal for European data
Data.gov: US government open data
NBER International Finance and Macroeconomics catalogue of data sources
Bank of England Database: interest rates, exchange rates, money and credit
Nomis: UK labour market and census statistics, down to local areas
Office for Budget Responsibility data: UK public finances, past official forecasts and 300 years of historical data
AMECO: the European Commission’s annual macroeconomic database
Eurobarometer surveys (browse by theme)
FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data (St. Louis Fed)
IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) database (now on the IMF Data portal)
IMF International Financial Statistics (IFS): no longer a single dataset; this page shows where each IFS series now lives
IMF Portfolio Investment Positions by Counterpart Economy (formerly the Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey, CPIS)
World Development Indicators (World Bank DataBank)
ILOSTAT: International Labour Organization data
WTO Stats: trade and tariffs
Database of Global Economic Indicators (Dallas Fed)
UK Monetary Policy Event-Study Database (Bank of England working paper, 2023)
Fed sentiment, monetary policy shocks, Greenbook forecast errors and FOMC composition (Aruoba and Drechsel)
Data on President–Fed interactions (Drechsel)
Political pressure on central banks (Binder)
Central bank independence data (CBIE index, Romelli)
Shadow rates (Jing Cynthia Wu)
US state consumer price indices (Hazell, Herreño, Nakamura and Steinsson)
Supply- and demand-driven PCE inflation (San Francisco Fed)
Cyclical and acyclical core PCE inflation (San Francisco Fed)
COVID-sensitive core PCE inflation (San Francisco Fed; no longer updated since 2023)
Sectoral frequency of price changes (Pasten, Schoenle and Weber, JME; zip file)
Price-cost markups (Nekarda and Ramey, Stata file)
Daily News Sentiment Index (San Francisco Fed)
Financial stress and economic activity: a new worldwide index (IMF working paper and data)
Vulnerability (fragility) data (CSV file)
Historical Financial Statistics (Center for Financial Stability)
Exchange rate regime classification (Ilzetzki, Reinhart and Rogoff)
Covered interest rate parity deviations between government bonds
Yield data (Jing Cynthia Wu)
The long-term housing yield (Bäcker-Peral, Hazell and Mian)
Banking-crisis intervention database (Metrick and Schmelzing)
Moody’s BankFocus (bank-level data; subscription)
US federal procurement data (Cox, Müller, Pasten, Schoenle and Weber)
China economic database (Bruegel)
Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports (2020–2022; no longer updated)
Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database: annual macro-financial data for 18 advanced economies since 1870
Penn World Table (version 11.0): income, output, inputs and productivity for 185 countries, 1950 to 2023
Maddison Project Database: long-run estimates of GDP per capita and population (latest release 2023)
EUKLEMS & INTANProd (Luiss Lab of European Economics)
CompNet (Competitiveness Research Network firm-level data, now hosted by IWH Halle)
Economic inequality (Our World in Data)
Working from home data (WFH Research)
PISA test scores data (OECD)
Human Capital data (World Bank)
Human Development Index (UNDP)
Oil market and economic indices (Christiane Baumeister)
Carbon pricing and oil supply shocks (Diego Känzig)
CO₂ and greenhouse gas emissions (Our World in Data)
Natural disasters (Our World in Data)
EM-DAT: the international disaster database
Freedom in the World (Freedom House)
Index of Economic Freedom (Heritage Foundation)
Business Ready (B-READY): the World Bank’s successor to Doing Business
Doing Business reports (archive; the series was discontinued in 2021)
Legal systems of the world (JuriGlobe)
Causal Inference: The Mixtape by Scott Cunningham; the site now hosts the second edition, still in progress
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality by Nick Huntington-Klein
Introduction to Econometrics with R by Christoph Hanck, Martin Arnold, Alexander Gerber and Martin Schmelzer
Macroeconomic Model Data Base (MMB): compare and replicate DSGE models
DSGE_mod: a collection of Dynare models by Johannes Pfeifer
Gauthier Vermandel’s Dynare and Matlab codes for DSGE models
Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi’s replications of VAR and DSGE papers
Sequence-Space Jacobian toolkit: solves heterogeneous-agent and HANK models in Python, with tutorial notebooks (Auclert, Bardóczy, Rognlie and Straub)
Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis by Lutz Kilian and Helmut Lütkepohl (preliminary chapters)
Empirical Macro Toolbox by Fabio Canova and Filippo Ferroni (also at naffe15.github.io/EMT, with a YouTube video explanation)
BEAR toolbox (ECB): Bayesian VARs, including panel VARs
Cross-country panel VAR codes (Matteo Iacoviello, zip file)
Giovanni Ricco’s code and data (VARs, Bayesian local projections, monetary policy shocks)
Macroeconometric Forecasting (IMF online course on edX)
Techniques of Empirical Macroeconomics by Òscar Jordà and Karel Mertens (AEA continuing education, 2023)
Recent Developments in Causal Inference with Macro Data by Mikkel Plagborg-Møller (AEA, 2026)
lpirf: local-projection impulse responses in Stata (manual)
LOCPROJ: Stata module to estimate local projections (Alfonso Ugarte-Ruiz)
EconMacro: Jamel Saadaoui’s blog, with Stata code for local projections, panel VARs and the newer difference-in-differences estimators, and step-by-step replications
Asjad Naqvi’s DiD guide: the newer difference-in-differences estimators and their packages in Stata, R, Python and Julia
Heterogeneous Autoregressions in Short T Panel Data Models by M. Hashem Pesaran and Liying Yang (replication code on GitHub)
Giuseppe Cavaliere’s materials on econometrics, machine learning, Python and R
Applied Empirical Methods by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham: a Yale PhD course with slides, notes, R problem sets and recorded lectures
Coding for Economists by Arthur Turrell (Python)
Data Science for Economists by Grant McDermott: lecture notes in R, from Git and data cleaning to web scraping and parallel computing
QuantEcon lectures on economic modelling in Python and Julia
Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro (PDF, 2014)
A template README for replication packages (Social Science Data Editors)
Economics subject guide from Warwick Library: databases, journals and help with academic skills
Notes and lectures by Jesse Shapiro, including Four steps to an applied micro paper and How to give an applied micro talk
Writing, Publishing, and Presenting in Economics, Jason Blevins’s collection of advice by other economists
The Introduction Formula by Keith Head
The Conclusion Formula by Marc Bellemare
How to Write Applied Papers in Economics by Marc Bellemare (PDF, 2020)
Writing Tips for PhD Students by John Cochrane
Writing Economics by Robert Neugeboren with Mireille Jacobson, a guide for Harvard undergraduates (PDF)
Zotero, a free reference manager that saves sources from your browser and formats the bibliography
Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes (Overleaf)
Virtual Seminar on Climate Economics (now hosted by CEPR)
VIMM: Virtual Israel Macro Meeting (recordings on YouTube)
Search and Matching in Macro and Finance (SaMMF) virtual seminar
International Finance lectures by the Swedish House of Finance (YouTube)
AEA continuing education and Recent Developments lectures (webcasts)
Policy Stories by the Hoover Institution (short videos)
VoxTalks Economics (CEPR)
Macro Musings with David Beckworth (Mercatus Center)
The Sound of Economics (Bruegel)
EconTalk (Econlib)
More or Less (BBC Radio 4)
The Demand Side by Edward Brown
Who Makes Cents? A history of capitalism podcast
The Grumpy Economist (John Cochrane)
Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide (AJG 2024): grades run from 4* and 4 (top) down to 1 (decent). Explore field journals for research ideas.
IDEAS/RePEc aggregate rankings for journals: rule of thumb, focus on the first 200–300.