Advice for PhD students
Presenting and writing
- Presentation tips by Francesco Caselli; Longer version by David Weinstein
- Presentation rules and suggestions for Macro Bag Lunch Seminar at the University of Munich (organized with Theo Eicher, Monika Piazzesi, Martin Schneider, and Michele Tertilt).
- Presentation tips by Jesse Shapiro.
- Tips on how to avoid disaster in presentations by Monika Piazzesi.
- Writing tips for Ph.D. students by John Cochrane.
- How to publish in top journals by Kwan Choi. Also contains some good advice about refereeing, professional etiquette etc.
- Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practioner's Guide by Jess Shapiro.
- How to access standard data sources by Claudia Olivetti, Dan Silverman, and Jay Hong.
Other stuff
- Video about Millenium bridge that explains Basel II & systemic risk.
- A 1961 publication proposing the HP filter.
- An informative brief history of the role of search & matching literature in business cycle models making clear that the recent Handbook chapter by Rogerson and Shimer is not very complete and a bit misleading.
- Ariel Rubinstein's worldwide guide for coffee places to work and think
(if you want to find out what is outside the closet then click on the cartoon)