Software and Computing Links...

• IRIS Tbx -- Matlab toolbox for efficient economic modeling by Mirek Benes (you can call him 'teacher', he'll appreciate it...)
•                          Czech out my IRIS/modeling tutorials...

• Julia Language -- open-source computing hope. Very nice.


• Python -- open-source language, used for scientific computing
• SciPy -- Scientific Python

• R-project -- open-source statistical (mostly) computing; 
• RStudio  -- IDE for GNU R

 

• GCC :: GNU Compiler Collection (C++/C/Fortran90). The standard to use!

 

• GNU Octave -- open-source alternative to Matlab [imperfect but free]. 

 

• MiKTeX  -- the best TeX distribution for Windows.
• Dynare Tbx -- Matlab toolbox for estimating & analyzing models
• YADA -- Yet Another DSGE Application by a dear friend of mine Anders Warne

 

• GVIm -- VIM (the coolest) editor, my everyday companion....

• VMWare Player -- efficient work with virtual machines
• UBUNTU Linux -- a well-known and friendly Linux distribution
• Linux MINT -- distribution I am using now...

Some Nice People (friends, co-authors, ...)

• Jan Bruha -- Czech National Bank (CNB)
• Miroslav Plasil -- Czech National Bank (CNB)
  
• Antti Ripatti -- University of Helsinky, BoF
• Juha Kilponen -- Bank of Finland, (BoF)
• Anders Warne -- European Central Bank & Yada ;)
• Petr Sedlacek -- Bonn Graduate School of Economics
• Wouter den Haan -- LSE 
• Jirka Slacalek -- ECB, DG Research
• Joris de Wind -- Centraal Planbureau (Netherlands)
• Martin Ellison -- Oxford University
• Mika Kortelainen -- Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki)
• Michael Kumhof -- Bank of England
• Sergio Sola -- IMF
• Efrem Castelnuovo -- Unversity of Padova
• Giang Ho -- IMF
• Raphael Espinoza -- (UCL/IMF)
• ​James Costain -- Banco de Espana
• Omar Rachedi -- (Banco de Espana)
• Milan Lisicky -- European Comission, DG ECFIN
• Rudolfs Bems -- IMF
• ...

Essentials...

• How much Force can Yoda output? (xkcd)

• D I L B E R T   ! ! ! (the ultimate wisdom)

• LMGTFY
• WIKIPEDIA -- I support Wikipedia, do you?
• The Onion - America's Finest News Source
• Zero Hedge
• Merriam Webster
• Morningstar


• Guffipedia (Lucy Kellaway’s dictionary of business jargon and corporate nonsense)

 
Some underrated ECON reading...

• The Pretense of Knowledge, (1974 Nobel speech of F.A. Hayek)

• Money and Monetary Policy (Josef Jilek) Always happy to recall lectures of my finance professor and emphasis on accounting of money creation.
• Money creation in the modern economy (Bank of England)
• How do banks create money... (Richard Werner)

• How to build an economic model in your spare time... (great reading by Hal Varian)
• Some skeptical observations on Real Business Cycle theory, Lawrence Summers, 1986

• The Cult of Statistical Significance, D. McCloskey and S.T. Ziliak
• The Standard Error of Regressions, McCloskey and Ziliak

• Specification Searches (Edward E. Leamer, 1978)
• Let's take con out of econometrics (Edward E. Leamer, 1983)
• Tantalus on the Road to Asymptopia (Edward E. Leamer, 2010)
• Causal Inference in Statistics: An Overview (Judea Pearl)
• Forecasting without Significance Testing (Kostenko, Hyndman)
• Notes on time series analysis, ARIMA models and signal extraction,  Regina Kaiser and Augustin Maravall
• Cochrane on Unit Roots... (John Cochrane)
• Time series for macroeconomics and finance, John Cochrane
• Understanding Non-Bayesians, Christopher Sims

Statistical Learning (Machine Learning)

• Statistical Learning with Sparsity [Hastie, Tibshirani, Wainwright]
• Introduction to Stat Learning [James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani]

Inve$ting and Asset Pricing...

Data Visualization

Stephen Few Blog (Visual Business Inteligence on Perceptual Edge)
Alberto Cairo :: The Functional Art 
InfoEsthetics 
An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data (J. Schwabish, JoEP)