Free Access: Oxford Review of Economic Policy

How will you feel if you are allowed to access journal Oxford Review of Economic Policy by Oxford University Press ?  You can download any article published in this journal in between 1985 – 2007.

You can have free account to access the latest issue  via e mail. check out if you like it.

Game: Play With Statiscal Data

This software called Gapminder tool.  It is a online tool to study data (especially trend) of an economy. Country wise classification will give you a visual treat.

Enjoy it

Software Guide

Statistical and econometrics software are integral part of research analysis in economics.  Here we have some guide
Matlab: Matlab is a mathematical software, any type of mathematical problem can be solved including any types of dynamic optimization.
Ian Cavers (UBC), An Introductory Guide to Matlab
Paul Fackler (North Carolina State), Matlab Primer
Edward Neuman (Southern Illinois University), Matlab Tutorials
Christian Roessler (Melbourne), Matlab Basics
Kermit Sigmon (Florida), Matlab Primer
Kermit Sigmon (Florida), Matlab Tutorial
Matlab Summary and Tutorial at Florida

Gauss:
Marc Nerlove (Maryland), Notes on GAUSS
Felix Ritchie (Trig Consulting), Guide to Programming in GAUSS
Mark Watson (Princeton), GAUSS Basics
GAUSS 5.0 User Guide at Aptech

Stata: Econometric software. if you know theory then this software is a good one to solve a problem step by step.
Robert Yaffee (NYU), Getting Started with STATA for MS Windows: A Brief Introduction
STATA Tutorial at Princeton

Latex: this is basically to write thesis. to arrange graphs, tables, footnote and bibliography this is the best thesis writing software.
Peter Flynn (Silmaril Consultants), A Beginner’s Introduction to Typesetting with LaTex

Books: Better Humans?

A public debate is needed now about the potential for new technologies to make us ‘better than human’ according to a report published today by UK think tank Demos and the Wellcome Trust. Better Humans? The politics of human enhancement and life extension (0.6Mb PDF) is a new collection of essays by leading scientists and commentators, edited by Paul Miller and James Wilsdon:

We all share a desire for self-improvement.Whether through education, work, parenthood or adhering to religious or ethical codes, each of us seeks to become a ‘better human’ in a variety of ways. And for some people, more consumerist pursuits hold the key to self-improvement: working out in the gym, wearing makeup, buying new clothes, or indulging in a spot of cosmetic surgery.

But now a new set of possibilities is opening up. Advances in biotechnology, neuroscience, computing and nanotechnology mean that we are in the early stages of a period of huge technological potential. Within the next 30 years, it may become commonplace to alter the genetic make-up of our children, to insert artificial implants into our bodies, or to radically extend life expectancy.

This collection of essays explores the implications of human enhancement technologies and asks how citizens and policy-makers should respond.

You can also download individual essays:

Chapter 1 Stronger, leaner, faster – Paul Miller and James Wilsdon
Chapter 2 Is it wrong to try to improve human nature? – Arthur Caplan
Chapter 3 Welcome to a world of exponential change – Nick Bostrom
Chapter 4 The mand who wants to live forever – Paul Miller and James Wilsdon
Chapter 5 The transhumanists as tribe – Greg Klerkx
Chapter 6 Brain gain – Steven Rose
Chapter 7 The cognition-enhanced classroom – Danielle Turner and Barbara Sahakian
Chapter 8 Better by design – Sarah Franklin
Chapter 9 More life – Jon Turney
Chapter 10 Nip/Tuck nation – Decca Aitkenhead
Chapter 11 The perfect crime – Rachel Hurst
Chapter 12 The unenhanced underclass – Gregor Wolbring
Chapter 13 Does smarter mean happier? – Raj Persaud

Online Mathematical Tools for Economics Students

These tools are are very helpful to analyze economic theory. Teachers from different universities prepared these notes for their students. You can have a look. Only you need to have a adobe reader

Mathematics for economists:
Julio Dávila (Penn), Mathematics for Economic Theory
Arne Hallam (Iowa State), Quantitative Methods in Economic Analysis
John Hillas / Dmitriy Kvasov (Auckland), Foundations of Economic Analysis
Michael Manove (Boston U), Mathematics for Micro
Markus Möbius (Harvard), Mathematics for Economists
Efe Ok (NYU), Real Analysis & Probability Theory with Economic Applications
Martin Osborne (Toronto), Mathematical Methods for Economic Theory
Guoqiang Tian (Texas A&M), Mathematical Economics
Viatcheslav Vinogradov (Charles U), A Cook-Book of Mathematics

Online Notes on Macroeconomics

If you are in research and interested in macroeconomics then it would be helpful for you. Access these online notes at free of cost and get the maximum out of it.

Various models:
Willem Buiter (Cambridge), Lectures on Really Useful Ad Hoc Macroeconomics
John Driscoll (Fed), Lecture Notes in Macroeconomics
Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser), Macroeconomic Theory
Roland Meeks (Oxford), Economic Growth
Gregor Smith (Queen’s), Macroeconomics Lecture Notes
Paul Söderlind (St Gallen), Macro II
Stephen Williamson (WUSTL), Notes on Macroeconomic Theory 

Recursive (dynamic programming) treatments and dynamic methods:
Chris Edmond (NYU), Advanced Macroeconomic Techniques
Jeremy Greenwood (Rochester), Lecture Notes on Dynamic Competitive Analysis
Nezih Guner (Penn State), Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
Lars-Peter Hansen (Chicago) / Thomas Sargent (NYU), Recursive Models of Dynamic Linear Economies
Lars-Peter Hansen (Chicago) / Thomas Sargent (NYU), Robustness
John Hassler (Stockholm U), Math II (Dynamic Systems)
Christopher House (Michigan), Macroeconomics II
David Kendrick (Texas), Stochastic Control for Economic Models
Miles Kimball (Michigan), Advanced Mathematical Methods for Macroeconomics .doc
Ian King (Auckland), A Simple Introduction to Dynamic Programming in Macroeconomic Models
Paul Klein (Western Ontario), Solving the Growth Model by Linearizing the Euler Equations
Dirk Krüger (Frankfurt), Macroeconomic Theory
Dirk Krüger (Frankfurt), Quantitative Macroeconomics: An Introduction
Per Krusell (Princeton), Lecture Notes for Macroeconomics I
Lars Ljungqvist (SSE) / Thomas Sargent (NYU), Recursive Macroeconomic Theory .ps
Rody Manuelli (Wisconsin), Notes on Discrete Time Economic Models: The Growth Model
Rody Manuelli (Wisconsin), Topics in Macroeconomics: An Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
Maurice Obstfeld (Berkeley), Dynamic Optimization in Continuous-Time Economic Models I & II
Nicola Pavoni (University College), Notes on Dynamic Methods in Macroeconomics
Shouyong Shi (Toronto), Macro Theory I
John Stachurski (Melbourne), Stochastic Economic Dynamics
Nancy Stokey (Chicago), Brownian Models in Economics
Stijn Van Nieuwenburg (NYU) / Pierre-Olivier Weill (NYU), Exercises in Recursive Macroeconomic Theory
Randall Wright (Penn), Macroeconomics

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Online Text and Notes in Advanced Microeconomics

[Mechanism design and agency theory: handouts and exams]
Benjamin E. Hermalin, University of California, Berkeley
Several papers by Hermalin that were used in a 2001 course are included in this course web site, along with a past exam paper with answers.

Advanced microeconomic analysis [lecture notes and problem sets]
Levent Koçkesen, Columbia University
Syllabus, seven sets of detailed lecture notes, and problem sets, available as PDF document. Topics include Strategic Form Games and Nash Equilibrium, Rationalizability and Iterated Elimination of Dominated Actions, Bayesian Games and Correlated Equilibrium, Extensive Form Games with Perfect Information, Bargaining, Repeated Games, and Extensive Form Games with Imperfect and Incomplete Information.

[Advanced microeconomics]
John Hillas, University of Auckland
This site supports a course covering Game Theory, Information, General Equilibrium, Auctions and Contracts. Lecture notes, homework assignments, exams and solutions from 1999 to 2002 are archived.

Microeconomic theory II: [notes and assignments]
John Hillas, University of Auckland
This archive supports a course primarily about game theory, but also covering other aspects of the mathematical basis of economics. The files here include lecture notes, homework assignments and example questions with answers.

Lecture notes online
This site links to nearly 150 graduate-level lecture notes from lecturers around the world. Categories of material are: microeconomics (1. Consumers, firms and general equilibrium, 2. Game theory, 3. Mechanism design and public economics, 4. Applied and computational micro and other topics in micro), mathematics (1. Mathematics for economists, 2. Optimization, 3. Linear algebra, calculus, differential equations, 4. Analysis, measure theory, topology, 5. Discrete mathematics, logic, game theory, and other), macroeconomics (1. Various models, 2. Recursive (dynamic programming) treatments, 3. Dynamic methods, 4. Asset pricing and financing), econometrics (1. Probability and mathematical statistics, 2. Econometrics (general), 3. Macroeconometrics ( time series) and financial econometrics, 4. Microeconometrics), and software (1. Matlab, 2. Gauss, 3. Stata, 4. Other).

[Economic theory: PhD-level microeconomics course web page]
David S. Ahn, University of California, Berkeley
The web page for this first year PhD-level course includes a syllabus, 13 short class handouts, and problem sets with suggested solutions–all in .pdf. Topics start from binary choice and preference and run through Debreu’s Theorem, von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility, Anscombe-Aumann expected utility and Savage utility. This link is to Archive.org archive of the site.

[Advanced psychology and economics seminar course web page]
Botond Koszegi, University of California, Berkeley
This course web page is a syllabus with embedded to links to .pdf readings (although not all of them work).

[Microeconomics of development course web page]
Jenny Lanjouw , Elisabeth Sadoulet , Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley
This course web page includes a syllabus, handouts and assignments, mostly in .pdf. Topics are: microfinance institutions, history of thought, sharecropping, Nicaraguan poverty and inequality.

Maps of Bounded Rationality (A Prespective on Intuitive Judgment and Choice)
Prof. Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University
Daniel Kahneman’s 2002 Nobel Prize lecture, reviewing psychological and behavioral perspectives on economic choice following from his pioneering work with Amos Tversky. Includes a summary of their ‘prospect theory’, an alternative to rational choice theory that is consistent with their empirically discovered judgement biases, and a review of evidence for the main heuristics and their associated biases. Available as text or as a RealPlayer video of the lecture.

Neoclassical Theories of Production
New School for Social Research
Detailed summary of orthodox models of the supply-side, covering production functions, marginal-productivity theory of distribution, profit-maximising conditions, the firm in partial and general equilibrium, imperfect competition. Presents more recent developments in the theory (eg constant elasticity of substitution production function, bordered Hessian matrix fort quasi-concavity, activity analysis, new institutionalism) while keeping to simple mathematical and graphic presentation.

Auctions: Theory and Practice
Prof. Paul Klemperer, University of Oxford
Online book on auction theory [by one of the economists responsible for the UK's record-breaking 3rd Generation mobile licence auction, the theme of the book's final section]. Avoids mathematical complication and uses practical examples wherever possible. Includes more general discussion of information economics, and the uses/abuses of economic modelling; and extends ideas of auction and bargaining strategy into such areas as corporate takeovers and stock market bubbles. Chapter 1, an extensive literature review, includes questions and answers on the Revenue Equivalence Theorem and other elements of auction theory, from the Oxford Economics M.Phil. Ends with suggestions for course outlines and a detailed reference list.