Links
Databases
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Statistics and Interactive Data Portal
DBnomics World Economic Database
External Wealth of Nations Database (Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Phillip R. Lane)
The Quality of Government Institute Data from the University of Gothenburg
Public Finances in Modern History (1800-2021) from the International Monetary Fund
Census Reporter for exploring and visualizing U.S. Census data and Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files
IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, part of the Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation at the University of Minnesota)
DataMéxico and Mexico's INEGI
UNCTAD database (Data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development)
Long-Term Productivity Database with historical economic data for a wide range of countries
Fundación Rafael del Pino with historical data for the Spanish economy
NBER Macrohistory Database with extensive data mostly for the pre-WWI and interwar period (including the U.S., the U.K., France, and Germany)
Portal for Historical Statistics with international economic data
Current Value of Old Money with many historical data sources collected by Roy Davies (University of Exeter)
Historical Commodity Price Data collected by David S. Jacks (Simon Fraser University)
Macrohistory Database collected by Òscar Jordà (FRB of San Francisco & UC-Davis), Moritz Schularick (University of Bonn), and Alan M. Taylor (UC-Davis)
Allen-Unger Global Commodity Prices Database collected by Robert C. Allen (Nuffield College, Oxford University) and Richard W. Unger (University of British Columbia)
List of Datafiles of Historical Prices and Wages provided by the International Institute of Social History
The GDELT Project (The GDELT Project monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages)
Newspapers.com (The largest online newspaper archive)
Awesome Data (Online data repository)
FSU dataset (A set of more than 490,000 time series: micro, macro, demographic, finance, other)
Measure of Aggregate Trade Restrictions - MATR (New measure of aggregate trade restrictions using data from the IMF’s Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions)
De-dollarization (Facts about the U.S. dollar in the world by Jonathan S. Hartley)
The Global Credit Project (Provides comprehensive historical statistics on credit markets data covering 120 advanced and emerging economies going back to 1940)
UNdata and UNCTADstat
U.S. Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve balance sheets, and Federal Reserve weekly balance sheet
Software: Statistics, Math, Computation
Matlab (Numerical computing and programming environment based on matrix manipulations developed by MathWorks, Inc.)
Dynare (Dynare is a free software for handling a wide class of economic models, in particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping generations (OLG) models. Matlab is required in order to run Dynare. However, as an alternative, Dynare also runs with Octave (a free clone of Matlab))
Iris Macroeconomic Modeling Toolbox (Open-source toolbox for macroeconomic modeling and forecasting in Matlab)
CompEcon Toolbox for Matlab (CompEcon is a set of Matlab functions for solving a variety of problems in economics and finance developed to accompany Applied Computational Economics and Finance, Mario J. Miranda & Paul L. Fackler, MIT Press)
BEAR Toolbox (The Bayesian Estimation, Analysis, and Regression toolbox (BEAR) is a comprehensive (Bayesian Panel) VAR toolbox for forecasting and policy analysis. BEAR is written for Matlab)
GDSGE (A novel toolbox for solving DSGE models with global methods)
Python and Julia (Python and Julia are two free general-purpose programming languages for numerical and scientific computing in open source)
Helpful Links on Computational Economics for Matlab, Python, and Julia:
Quantitative Economics web-based course spearheaded by John Stachurski and Thomas J. Sargent for quantitative economic modeling with Python and Julia
Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods for Economics written by Fabrice Collard
Lecture Notes on Methods in Macroeconomic Dynamics written by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Dynare Code and Documentation written by Johannes Pfeifer
RStudio (RStudio is a user interface for R available for free in open source. This is a free software for statistical computing and graphics)
Helpful Links for R:
R for SAS and SPSS Users by Muenchen (2007)
An Introduction to R by Venables et al. (2013)
NetLogo (NetLogo is a free multi-agent programmable modeling environment)
Gephi (Gephi is an open-source and free visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.)
getLagLong.net (Free online website to obtain the latitude and longitude of any location in the world)
Jupyter Notebook (Open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text)
Wolfram Alpha (Wolfram Alpha is a free on-line computational knowledge engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is service that answers factual queries directly from external sources. Wolfram Alpha is based on Wolfram's product Mathematica, so it offers algebra, symbolic and numerical computation, visualization, and statistics capabilities. It can be very useful for taking derivatives and integrals, for instance. Additional data is gathered from both academic and commercial websites.)
LiveScript (LiveScript is a language which compiles to JavaScript)
SageMath (SageMath is a free open-source mathematics software system)
Real-statistics.com (Templates and notes on how to effectively use Excel for statistical analysis)
AET Excel Utilities (Add-in for Excel that facilitates routine tasks)
Software: Text Editing, Visualization
LyX (LyX is a free document processor that combines TeX/LaTeX with a user-friendly graphical interface)
Overleaf (On-line, collaborative LaTeX editor)
Useful Microsoft® Excel® add-ins:
Excel2Latex (Excel® add-in which converts the current selection from an excel file as LaTeX markup that can be imported into an existing LaTeX document)
FRED add-in (Excel® add-in that provides direct access through Excel® to macro data from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Data (FRED))
Zotero (Zotero is a free on-line tool that helps collect, organize in bibliographic form, cite and share sources)
Grammarly (Grammarly is a free on-line grammar-checking tool for Chrome with a Microsoft Office add-in)
Task Pigeon (Free task management software for individuals and teams)
Cite This For Me (Cite This For Me is an open-access generator to fully-format all of your citations (for Word): Chicago, APA, Harvard, ASA, etc.)
CLARIFY (CLARIFY is a free software for interpreting and presenting statistical results with Stata)
Desmos (Fee online tool to graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, etc.)
WebPlotDigitizer (WebPlotDigitizer is a free on-line tool that helps recover data points from a plot via automatic detection)
Gapminder (Gapminder is a free on-line tool to visualize economic data)
Highcharts Cloud (Highcharts is an on-line tool to create interactive charts, free for non-commercial and personal use)
Useful Google resources:
Google Charts (Google Charts is a free on-line tool to create charts and figures)
Google Data Studio (Interactive dashboards and data reports with Google)
Google URL Shortener (URL shortener powered by Google, no longer active)
mapchart.net (mapchart.net helps you create customized maps of the World, Europe, and the United States)
draw.io (Free on-line flowchart maker and online diagrame software used to easily create diagrams and decision trees)
iloveimg.com (Free on-line website to crop, resize, and adjust images to certain specifications without losing much of the quality of the original)
thenounproject.com (Free on-line icons for websites)
GunnMap 2 and GunnMap (On-line app coded to generate World maps)
convertio.co, onlineconvertfree, online-convert.com, and freeconvert (Websites to convert PDF or JPG to EPS free on-line as seen [here])
AddToAny (Social bookmarking platform that can be integrated into a website with the use of a web widget)
SmallSETools and Bitly (Free on-line URL shortener tools)
Acronym Finder (Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms)
Crossref (Search engine from Crossref: the official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency)
Apowersoft (Free online video and screen recorder)
SurveyMonkey and even table (Free create your own survey and free add to calendar button)
EconGraphs (Intuitive interactive visualizations of key concepts in economics)
Zero Seeker (Tools that allows you to convert tables in a pdf into tables in an excel file)
Colorbrewer 2.0 (Color advice for cartography or simply for plotting)
Dates of Easter by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Naval Observatory, and El Museo de las Ciencias de Castilla-La Mancha (Easter dates have liturgical implications but also have economic implications because it affects the seasonality patterns)
Macroeconomic and Statistical Modelling
Macroeconomic Observatory (Providing free and state-of-the-art tools for macroeconomic analysis: Dynare software, DBnomics database, and Policy analysis)
The Macroeconomic Model Data Base (The Macroeconomic Model Data Base is an archive of macroeconomic models based on a common computational platform that provides various tools for systematic model comparison. The project is headed by Volker Wieland (Goethe University Frankfurt))
FRB/US Model (The FRB/US model is a large-scale estimated general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy that has been in use at the Federal Reserve Board since 1996)
Univariate Distribution Relationships (Graphical tool mapping the relationships between all major univariate probability distributions)
Multilevel modeling & Panel regression with R, Stata, and SPSS (On-line statistical training and videos provided through the website Multivariate statistics for the real world by Mike Crowson, University of Oklahoma)
Academic Journals
Elsevier's Journal Finder (Elsevier's Journal Finder suggests journals that could be suited for publishing your academic papers)
Wiley's Journal Finder (Wiley's Journal Finder suggests journals that could be suited for publishing your academic papers)
connectedpapers (Free online tool to explore connected academic papers in a visual network graph)
ScienceDirect Open Call for Papers (List of open call for papers in economics and finance)
Policy/Business/Media Outlets
VoxEU.org (CEPR's policy portal: research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economists)
SUERF Policy Notes (SUERF Policy Notes series focuses on current financial, monetary or economic issues for policy makers and financial practitioners)
On-Line Courses
Coursera (Free courses on-line offered by universities from all over the world including useful courses to learn programming languages and economics)
edX (Free courses on-line offered by some of the world's leading universities)
Miríada X (Free courses on-line offered by universities from Iberoamerica)
Open Course Ware UNED (Free courses on-line offered by UNED)
Open Course Ware UA (Free courses on-line offered by the University of Alicante)
EU Academy (Platform of on-line learning owned by the European Union)
Other Useful Tools
Waybackmachine and Internet Archive Scholar (An archive of the world wide web and other information on the internet created by the Internet Archive)
Archive.org (Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more)
EURAXESS (Researchers in Motion is a unique pan-European initiative delivering information and support services to professional researchers)
Keepoffline, Keepv.id, or savevideo.me (Free on-line video downloader)
CompressMP4 (Free on-line website that allows you to compress the size of videos)
Speedof.me and Speedtest.net (A pair of common websites to test the internet connection)
Wireless Network Watcher (Wireless Network Watcher is a utility to scan the wireless network and display all computers and devices currently connected to it)
GlassWire (Detect hidden threats with GlassWire's free firewall)
Ninite (Package management system that lets you automatically install popular applications for the Windows operating system)
WinDirStat (Free open-source graphical disk usage analyzer for Microsoft Windows)
Skyscanner (A website to search for low cost flights and hotels)
Airhopping (A website to search for low cost, multiple destination flights)
SeatGuru (A website with airline information and to search for low cost flights)
Flightstats and Flightview (Two websites to track flights in real-time)
Zoom Video Communications (Remote conferencing services using cloud computing)
LibriVox (Free public domain audiobooks; these audiobooks can also be found on YouTube [here])
Timelapse in Google Earth (Website that permits you to visualize how the world has changed since 1985)
Predoc (Opportunities at universities and research institutions that create a pathway to research and doctoral careers)
Spanish Language and Culture
Real Academia Española de la Lengua (Royal Academy of the Spanish Language)
Diccionario de la Lengua Española (Dictionary of the Spanish language)
Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas (Pan-hispanic dictionary of doubts)
Biblioteca Digital de la RAE (Online historical library of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language)
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (Association of Academies of the Spanish Language)
Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (U.S. Academy of the Spanish Language)
Academia Puertorriqueña de la Lengua Española (Puerto Rican Academy of the Spanish Language)
CORPES XXI (XXI Century Spanish Language Corpus)
Portal del Hispanismo (Portal of the Spanish language and Hispanic studies)
Instituto Cervantes (The Cervantes Institute promotes the study and teaching of the Spanish language and culture around the world)
Red Canoa (Panhispanic Network for the Internationalization of the Spanish Language and Culture)
Fundación Carolina (Foundation that promotes cultural relations and cooperation in educational and scientific matters between Spain and the community of Spanish-speaking countries)
The Hispanic Council (Independent think tank that promotes relations between the Hispanic community of the United States and Spain)
Hispanic Society of America (Museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their footprints in America and Southeast Asia)
SpainintheUSA (Website that showcases the cultural, historical and economic relationships of Spain and the U.S.)
Legacy (Non-profit foundation that publicizes the legacy of Spain in the U.S.)
Embajada de España en los Estados Unidos (Embassy of Spain in the U.S.)
Consulado General de España en Houston (EE.UU.) (Consulate of Spain in Houston, U.S.)
SPAINred (The Spanish cultural network in the U.S.)
España Exterior (The newspaper of the Spanish expats around the world)
RaiceX (Red de Asociaciones de Investigadores y Científicos Españoles en el Exterior)
Casa Real Española (Spanish Royal Family)
Diputación Permanente y Consejo de la Grandeza de España (Spanish Nobility)
Virtual Meadows Museum (Universidad Metodista del Sur, Dallas)
Culture and Religion
Classical 101.1 (Radio station with on-line streaming--classical music and the arts for North Texas)
radio.garden (A website to listen on-line to radio from all over the world)
eBiblio (On-line platform to borrow books from Spanish libraries)
Biblioteca Electrónica del Instituto Cervantes (Free on-line library of the Cervantes Institute)
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (Free on-line library of the Fundación Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes)
Ebiblioteca.org (Website with links to on-line libraries)
Teatroteca (The online loan service platform of the Documentation Center for the Performing Arts and Music of Spain)
AbeBooks (On-line used books store)
Misas.org (Website and app that helps you locate churches and mass times around the world)
Donoamiiglesia.es (Catholic Bishops Conference of Spain, on-line donations)
The Vatican's Philatelic and Numismatic Office
History of Economic Thought, Economic History, and History
Repositorio Institucional del Patrimonio Bibliográfico del Banco de España (Historical Digital Library of the Bank of Spain)
Shipmap.org (International shipping routes)
Tir-For (Tabula Imperii Romani Forma Orbis Romani)
Omnes Viae (Roman Empire Routeplanner)
Historia Hispánica (Spanish Royal Academy of History)
RTVE Documentary on D. Jorge Juan y Santacilia (2013) (also found at Diputación de Alicante's YouTube Channel)
Personal
Enrique Martínez García's profile at iStock by Getty Images (Portfolio of my own eclectic selection of pictures available for purchase through Getty Images)
La Enciclopedia Digital de Novelda (The online encyclopedia of the City of Novelda)
Novelda Modernista (Online website about the Art Nouveau in the City of Novelda)
El Betania (The magazine of festivities of Novelda)
Ermitas, Capillas e Iglesias de Novelda (Compilation by Manolo Serrano about Novelda)
Memoria de Novelda (Novelda's Digital Encyclopedia)
Museo Arqueológico de Novelda (Archaeological Museum of the City of Novelda)
Asamblea Amistosa Literaria de Novelda (Center devoted to the preservation of the intellectual legacy of D. Jorge Juan y Santacilia)
Novelda... Se Lleva Dentro (Video by Carlos Pujalte about Novelda)
Cada 20 de Julio en Novelda... (Video by Carlos Pujalte about the Festivities in Novelda in honor of Saint Mary Magdalene)
Jueves Santo en Novelda (Video by Carlos Pujalte about the Holy Week of Novelda)
El Ilustre Marino (Music by Óscar Navarro, composer from Novelda, about D. Jorge Juan y Santacilia)
III Aniversario de Jorge Juan en Novelda (Official Commemoration of the Third Centenary of D. Jorge Juan y Santacilia organized by the City of Novelda)
Historia de Novelda (University of Alicante's blog about the history of Novelda)
Shrine of Saint Mary Magdalene in Novelda (Presentation about the shrine of Saint Mary Magdalene in Novelda)
Tourist Info Novelda (Discover an amazing town in the valley of the river Vinalopó)
Rutas Azules por la Provincia de Alicante (Book sponsored by the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain and Diputación Provincial de Alicante on various hiking trails to discover the beauty of the interior of the Province of Alicante)
Fichas Socioeconómicas (Socio-economic records of all the municipalities of Spain by the general council of economists of Spain)
El Camino Real de los Tejas (National Historic Trail TX, LA)
VisitDallas (Advice for those visiting the city of Dallas or seeking ideas on what the city and its many neighborhoods have to offer)
DPD Beat (The Dallas Police Department crime blog)
The Real Yellow Pages (Reverse Phone Lookup)
Humor
Sheep Specifications (A Short Scene from the Movie 'The Pentagon Wars (1998)')
A Product Management Lesson (A Short Scene from the Movie 'The Pentagon Wars (1998)')
top5itis (A brief article about a disease that often affects the economics profession)
