RESOURCES and USEFUL Links

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See GlobalEconomics's Resources page for links to FRED, YahooFinance, GoogleFinance, DBNomics and the IMF-IFS.

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Other data sources for bigger macro research projects

• World Penn Tables - large data set of 183 countries between 1950 and 2019

• Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database - database of 18 countries 1870-2020

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FED Resources

• FRED is my main source for a lot of current data and graphs: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/

• NY FED has info on a number of things

  • MARKETS: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets

  • ​Markets Data Dashboard: Market Operations, Data, Surveys & Reports: https://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/data-hub

 

Trading Economics (quick look at global data):  https://tradingeconomics.com/

 

ECB:  https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/html/index.en.html

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Bank of England:  https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/

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Bank of Japan: https://www.boj.or.jp/en/index.htm/

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FOREX Factory: https://www.forexfactory.com/

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Black Rock Weekly Insights: https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/insights/blackrock-investment-institute/weekly-commentary

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Black Rock Global Weekly Commentary: https://www.blackrock.com/au/intermediaries/insights/weekly-commentary

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Economists I personally read and follow

• John Cochrane (macro/finance/FTPL)

  • Academic Site​

  • Grumpy Economist Blog: https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/

• Roberto Chang (Open Economy Macro): https://econweb.rutgers.edu/rchang/

• Charles I Jones (macro/growth) - https://web.stanford.edu/~chadj/

• Guillermo Calvo

• Kenneth Rogoff

• Voll

• Thomas Sargent

• Martin Uribe

• Carlos Vegh

• Willi Mutschler: https://mutschler.eu/  

• Adrien Auclert: https://aauclert.people.stanford.edu/

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DSGE Models and Dynare​

• Johannes Pfeifer GitHub DSGE and NK Models

• Willi Mutschler Videos on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@wmutschl/featured​​​​

  • Introduction to MATLAB, Dynare, Etc.

    • Introduction to MATLAB

    • Quick Tour Dynare (focus on solution methods and solutions)

  • RBC Baseline Model

    • RBC Baseline Model Equations and Intro to Preprocess in Dynare

    • RBC Baseline Model: steady state derivations and implementation

      • 4 methods to compute the steady state of a DSGE model in Dynare

    • RBC Baseline Model in Dynare: Simple vs Advanced Calibration

    • RBC Baseline Model in Dynare: Deterministic vs Stochastic Simulations

  • New Keynesian Models

    • Algebra of New Keynesian Models with Calvo Pricing (my handwritten notes)

    • New Keynesian Model: Optimal Policy in Dynare

    • New Keynesian Model: Zero-Lower-Bound and Optimal Monetary Policy in Dynare

  • Other Dynare/DSGE Topics

    • Understanding Dynare's Preprocessor

    • ​What does it mean to numerically compute the steady state​

    • ​Understanding Deterministic (Perfect Foresight) Simulations in Dynare​

    • 4 methods to compute the steady state of a DSGE model in Dynare

    • Identification Analysis of DSGE model parameters with Dynare

    • Q&A Session 1 (Identification)​

    • Q&A Session 2 (Identification)

    • Quantitative Macro (2021/22) Course: Matlab, Octave, OLS, MLE, other

  • Econometric Topics

    • Exercise: OLS Estimation

    • Exercise: MLE of Gaussian AR(p)

    • Exercise: Information Criteria for AR(p) model

    • Exercise: Bootstrap Confidence Interval for AR (1)

    • Method of Moments (GMM and SMM) Est in Dynare 4.7

      • Q&A Session 1 (GMM)

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WEB 3.0 Related.

 

DAOs

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Structure and Organization (Economic, Organizational, Legal and other considerations)

Theory and praxis of DAOs | Binance Research

Institutional Economics & Governance of DAOs (Part 1) | by Shermin Voshmgir | Token Kitchen | Medium

Costs and Benefits: Thinking Through Legal Structures for DAOs — PrimeDAO

The Legal Basics of DAOs

https://www.metis.io/daos-the-operating-system-of-communities/

DAOs are not corporations: where decentralization in autonomous organizations matters

 

Creating a DAO

Starting a DAO: The Definitive Guide to Creating a web3 Community

https://academy.binance.com/hu/articles/how-to-create-a-dao

 

Governance/Voting System

Governance | MakerDAO Community Portal

Gitcoin DAO Governance Process v2 - updated

Snapshot

 

Examples 

A Deep Dive Into How the Top 10 DAOs Work | Alexandria

https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper/#abstract

Wolf Works DAO Whitepaper

https://docsend.com/view/uj3kq62zrdu2fx6y (Big Green DAO, included to provide an example of an operating framework)

operating framework)

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