Evaluating Other Work
Discussions
Chris Blattman on the art of discussing
Sample Discussions
Macro Finance
Monika Piazzesi, Daniel Greenwald, Itamar Drechsler, Urban Jermann, John Cochrane, Lawrence Schmidt, Jonathan Parker, Nicolas Crouzet, Amir Kermani, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Hanno Lustig, Gabriel Chodorow-Reich
Financial Intermediation
Juliane Begenau, Konstantin Milbradt
Household / Public Finance
Arpit Gupta, Emil Verner, Christopher Palmer, Anthony DeFusco, Lorenz Kueng, Amir Kermani, Jialan Wang, Sasha Indarte, Kristoph Kleiner
Empirical Asset Pricing
Kent Daniel, Stefan Nagel, Eben Lazarus, Christian Julliard
International Macro & Trade
Oleg Itskhoki, Nelson Camanho, Tarek Hassan, Dmitry Mukhin, Fabrizio Perri
Corporate Finance
Moqi Groen-Xu, Adair Morse
Labor & Finance
Isaac Hacamo
Editing
Preston McAfee on working as an editor
Others
Professional Code
Anthony Lee Zhang on social norms in US academia
Ivo Welch on some observations about the PhD Market
Daniel S. Hamermash on professional etiquette
Josh Spector with one-sentence Email tips
Applying for PhD
Anthony Lee Zhang on math classes for economics/finance PhD
Econ RA Guide
Andrew Johnston on optimizing PhD placement (here), deciding where to go (here), and making the most out of grad school (here)
Mianish Jha on business PhD admission
Samantha N. Smith on business PhD admission
Academic Job Market
John Cawley on the academic job market
Eric Zwick on how he learned to stop worrying and love the job market
David Laibson with his job market advice
Adam Guren with his job market advice
Andrew Johnston on how to dress for a job market interview
Sasha Indarte on how to organize the job market information
Manish Jha with Finance Job Market Advice based on 2020-21 experience
David Schindler on the European job market
Faculty Life
Tyler Ransom on tips for new tenure-track professors
Chris Blattman on writing recommendation letters
Non-Academic Job Market
Scarlet Chen on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech
Rose Tan on her journey from Econ PhD to Tech
AEA Career Development Webinars with useful fireside chats
Matthew Hom on private sector jobs for Economics PhDs
Teaching Notes
PhD Notes
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde on macro, finance, and economic history
Adrien Matray, Michael Roberts on empirical corporate finance
Itay Goldstein on theoretical corporate finance
Matthieu Gomez on macro finance
Luke Taylor on structural estimation in corporate finance
Ralph Koijen on empirical asset pricing
Francesco Franzoni on empirical asset pricing
Adriano Rampini on financial intermediation theory
Jun Pan on asset pricing and financial markets
David Backus on asset pricing with a focus on macro
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on applied methods
Manish Jha with a summary of key finance papers
Grant McDermott on data science for economists
Chris Conlon on graduate level IO
Matt Woerman on topics in advanced econometrics
Florian Oswald on computational economics using Julia
Robert A. Miller on structural econometrics
Master's Notes
Julien Pénasse on macro and international finance
General Notes
Economics
IMF Back to Basics
Page One Economics
History of Economic Thought
Language, Confusion, and Models in Empirical Economics
Literature Review
Perspectives in sustainable equity investing by Guillaume Coqueret
Machine Learning for Factor Investing by Guillaume Coqueret
Quantitative Finance
J. A. Dobelman with notes on quantitative finance and statistics
Recommendations
Econ & Finance Books
Financial Times: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
Bloomberg: 2019, 2018, 2017a, 2017b
The Economist: 2018
Andrew Lo on the best finance books
Research Digests
NBER Digest featuring non-technical summaries
Chicago Booth Review
VOX, CEPR's Policy Portal
AEA Research Highlights
Economic Synopses
Poverty Action Lab with Policy Insights
Productivity Tools
Reddit List of useful known websites
Cool Stuff
Food timeline that makes food history fun
Musical time machine that makes discovering music fun