Research Resources

This page collects a few open-source resources about research, predoc, and PhD.

Course Notes

Accounting

• Empirical Research in Accounting: Tools and Methods by Ian Gow and Tongqing Ding.
• PhD Lecture Notes: Disclosure and Financial Markets by Kevin Smith.
• Fundamentals of Financial Accounting Theory: Communication and Markets, with Applications to Theory-Based Estimation by Edwige Cheynel and Jeremy Bertomeu.
• PhD Seminars by Robert Bushman.

Econometrics

• Applied Empirical Methods by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham.
• Metrics Notes by Peter Hull.
• Causal Inference for The Brave and True.

Microeconomics

• Many textbooks for users in different levels by Ariel Rubinstein.

Corporate finance

• PhD course on Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions by Itay Goldstein.

Misc

• Finance and Metrics Notes by Charles C.Y. Wang.

Predoc

• Intro to Predoc by Jesse Yu-Chieh Kuo.
• Econ RA Guide.
• Code and Data for the Social Sciences: A Practitioner’s Guide by Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro.
• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education by MIT.
• Predoc opportunities by PREDOC.ORG.
• Econ RA Listings.

Helpful and Insightful Writings

Intro to capital markets

• Alphanomics: The Informational Underpinnings of Market Efficiency by Charles M. C. Lee and Eric C. So.
• Asset Pricing Blogs by Chuan Shi (in Chinese).

Misc

• How to Give an Applied Micro Talk by Jesse M. Shapiro.
• Four Steps to an Applied Micro Paper by Jesse M. Shapiro.
• How to give an economic theory talk by Shengwu Li.
• Grad School Advice by Anthony Lee Zhang.
• Advice for Aspiring Scholars by Kenneth C. Wilbur.
• Comprehensive link collections by Quan Le.
• 哈佛學記：鄭紹鈺的寫作空間 by Shao-Yu Jheng.
• 10 Q&A: Experienced Advice for “Lost” Graduate Students in Economics by Ariel Rubinstein.
• Economic Fables by Ariel Rubinstein.