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| Open Access Journals | Hopefully with time access to scholarly materials will be increasingly democratic. At present, there is a growing number of journals which all some degree of public access. If there are additional journals that may be added, please inform the site author. | ||
| Find out how it works. | You can also be updated when new issues come out. | ||
| Has some free journals by subscription. More generally a very useful site to post working papers, etc. | Getting a Big Start from some Big Shots! | ||
| Pretty much speaks for itself. | "Directory of Open Access Journals" has a big list, especially many journals in Spanish. | ||
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| UW notes, Vocabulary lists, Lots o' stuff! | Econgrads forum admin. | ||
| Primarily a personal page. | Primarily a personal page. | ||
| Doesn't do econ anymore, but writes for a paper! | |||
| Fall 2004 |
| Econ 703 (Math) | Prof.: Raymond Deneckere
TA: Ping Yu |
| Emilie McHugh's excellent class notes through 12/09. (Missing a couple of days) | A condensation of some theorems from Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds. |
| A derivative proof of Farkas's lemma. | Past Deneckere Midterms / Finals |
| Econ 709 (Stats) | Prof.: Jack Porter TA: Hisa Tanaka |
| Bruce Hanson's Old Midterms | Notes that go with Discussion #8, stuff not in CB |
| Econ 711 (Micro) | Prof: William Brock TAs: Emin Dokumaci and Enrique Martinez-Garcia |
| Wei Zhang's page which has fantastic resources, including old exams and some Jehle solutions. | Christoph Wagner and Daniel Kuhn have access to a copy of the Mas-Colell solutions. |
| Econ 712 (Macro) | Prof.: Rody Manuelli TA: Terry Iverson
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| Emilie McHugh's excellent class notes for Fall 2004. | How to solve a simple linear difference equation. |
| Spring 2005 | 1/22/05 Karaoke! |
| Spring 2005 textbook list (for 1st year graduate students at UW Madison) |
| Econ 710 (Metrics) | Prof.: Bruce Hansen TAs: Hisa Tanaka and Ping Yu |
| Free statistical software: Gauss Light (download the directory), Ox, R (clone of S Plus) |
Greg Whitten has donated his (typed!) notes for the class along with other materials available here. |
| Econ 713 (Game Th.) | Prof.: Larry Samuelson,
William Sandholm TA: Emin Dokumaci and Allen Long |
| Notes donated by
Colleen
Chrisinger/Emilie McHugh/Ignacio Monzon Emilie McHugh's notes for Samuelson's half. |
John Kennan's 713 problems |
| Ming Li's 2003 Final solutions donated by Jonathon Hore. More catalogued (Emin sent these): | Larry Samuelson's 2004 homework solutions (Donated by Greg Whitten.) |
| Econ 714 I/II (Macro 2) | Prof.: Kenneth
West, Yongseok Shin TA: Terry Iverson |
| Notes donated by
Colleen
Chrisinger
Notes through 5/1/05 donated by Emilie McHugh |
Jeremy Greenwood's notes on this topic, from Terry Iverson. |
| All of the papers for Part I of the course have been uploaded to the File Sharing Page. | Greg Whitten has donated his (typed!) notes for the class along with
other materials available here. Spring macro simulation results. |
| A bunch of UW students have sent article reviews available here. (The students are: Chris Wagner, Mustafa Akcay, Janvier Mali, Nonarit Bisonyabut, Daniel Kuhn, Anthony Paul, Kyle Haemig) | Some old materials from West carbon dated to 1998. |
| Spring 2006 | Some things not in the core:
The Distance Function and Inverse Compensated Demand Function |
| Solutions | I would like to thank Christian Roessler and Chris Silvey for helpful comments on the survey. |
Thank you to everyone who participated in the survey, it is now closed with a total of 360+ responses.
Here are partially summarized results. I hope they provide useful information.
| For Professors, TAs, and others in
classes where the instructor(s) have OK'ed the use of solutions, you may
find the following links to request solution manuals from publishers
useful:
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Request MWG solutions (Oxford University Press) |
Request Simon and Blume
solutions (W. W. Norton and Company) |
Request Greene
solutions (Prentice Hall) |
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Request Walsh solutions (MIT Press) |
Request Obtstfeld and Rogoff's Foundations of International Macroeconomics
solutions
(MIT Press) |
Request Romer solutions (McGraw-Hill) |
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Relevant discussions: Disclaimer: Links do not necessarily reflect my or contributors' opinions. They are just people talking about issues related to solution dissemination. |
Steven Levitt on the issue, as well as feedback. | Grad students commenting on Chris Silvey's blog. | Case Study on Availability of MWG Solutions |
| Tools | Have a useful link? Send it along! |
| Free Viewers:
Scientific Word Files: Scientific Viewer 5.0 |
Java Stuff: Commons-Math library (Java) for all your statistical distribution needs. JAMA, a basic Java matrix library. (Off the Java Numerics site.) JFreeChart for a quick (and very dirty) library to make graphs. JRI a GUI for R written in Java. (Also see R Commander.) Math / Statistical Libraries by M. T. Flanagan. Ostermiller Utilities useful for working with .CSV or Excel files. SSJ Stochastic Simulation in Java library. |
| Useful LYX fonts, as well as a LaTeX Symbol Reference. This guide is handy for learning how to typeset equations. | |
| For drawing game trees, and excellent resource is Gambit |
| Culture Video / Blogs | Have a fun link? Send it along, especially blogs
of the graduate experience. Note: You will likely need Quicktime to view the majority of videos below. |
| I'm working on making VCDs/DVDs of the videos below, but am having some problems so if anyone out there is experienced with the process and could recommend (free or cheap) software to use, please contact me! |
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I recommend any graduate student to read
David Colander's
Why Aren't Economists as
Important as Garbagemen?
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| For an extensive list of Economics clubs around the US, visit EconClubs. | The Aardvarks have a song about Farkas Lemma (yes, the lemma -- read the lyrics). You can download it off of their site. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blogs | This is about as close to a personal interview and life
overview of someone you can get without interacting with them, and if
you are reading this, you are probably interested in what others are up
to. Have a blog to submit? Send it along! I'm also happy to host blogs here for past / current / future economics graduate students. |
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Current Econ Grads |
Former Econ Grads |
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Detour (Chris Silvey) |
| Prelims | Jeremy Sandford had the idea of scanning prelim solutions for everyone to have, and offered his own (extensive!) solutions. If you know of other people's solutions, please inform me so I can get them up. |
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Micro |
Macro | General | |
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John Kennan's Old Problems | An old solution to a Shesadri final provided by the TA. Passworded by request, so email me for it. | Prelim Solutions by Jeremy Sandford |
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Seung Gyu's Macro prelims solutions (organized by author!) |
The department prelim page. |
| Links | Have a useful link? Send me an email (see Who I Am). |
EconPhD.net has an excellent collection of lecture note links and wisdom regarding textbooks.
If you are not currently an economics graduate student, but are considering becoming one, you NEED to visit Becoming an Economist.
Also, as a prospective or current Grad Student, you might find Tips 4 Economists interesting.
EconPapers has lots of downloadable working papers, books, and most interestingly, software.
| Local Resources | Have a useful link? Send me an email (see Who I Am). |
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The Guide (the local events index put out by the Isthmus) |
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| Local Movie Listings | UW Event Calendar |
| Madison College Coupons (Especially Pizza Coupons!) | MadisonCoupons.com (Not as good as the other link IMHO.) |
| Madison Daily Average Gas Prices | Madison Gas Prices by Station |
| Misc. | |
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CheapBooks.com searches through many booksellers (Amazon.com, half.com, online specialty textbook store) for low price text editions. |
Flying to a conference and want to make sure you have a power outlet for your laptop? Find the right seat via SeatGuru.com. |
