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A curated list of datasets, tools, models, institutions, and learning resources for economics, spanning microeconomics, macroeconomics, econometrics, finance, and public policy.

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Foundations & References

Macroeconomics

  • FRED – Extensive macroeconomic time-series database.
  • IMF Data – Global macroeconomic and financial statistics.
  • World Bank Data – Development and macroeconomic indicators.
  • OECD Data – Economic statistics for developed economies.
  • Penn World Table – Cross-country productivity and income data.

Microeconomics

Econometrics & Modeling

  • Statsmodels – Econometric modeling in Python.
  • R econometrics packages – Comprehensive list of R econometrics tools.
  • Stata – Statistical software widely used in economics.
  • EViews – Econometrics and forecasting software.
  • Gretl – Open-source econometrics software.

Economic Data Sources

  • IPUMS – Harmonized census and survey microdata.
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics – Employment, inflation, and wage data.
  • Eurostat – European Union economic statistics.
  • UN Data – Global economic and social indicators.
  • Open Economic Data – Index of open economic datasets.
  • Eulerpool – Financial data API with macroeconomic series from FRED, ECB, IMF, World Bank, Eurostat, OECD and BIS.

Computational Economics

  • Dynare – DSGE modeling platform.
  • QuantEcon – Open-source computational economics tools.
  • JuliaEconomics – Julia packages for economic modeling.
  • PyEcon – Python tools for economic simulation.

Policy & Development Economics

Financial & Monetary Economics

Visualization & Analysis Tools

  • pandas – Data analysis library used in empirical economics.
  • ggplot2 – Grammar-of-graphics plotting in R.
  • Plotly – Interactive economic data visualizations.
  • Tableau – BI tool used for economic dashboards.

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