Entertaining... but serious Economic and Quant web sites

Quantitative finance and monetary economics

Probability.net
For the geeks deeply interested in Probability and Measure Theory, or those who only need a (tough) refresher, hopefully there is Noel Vaillant's Web site. One of the best site on Probability and Measure with Les-Mathematiques.net .

Frederic S. Mishkin
What is money? How do interest rates behave? What is behind the yield curve? In monetary policy I trust, even in the dramatic today's context, and so Frederic S. Mishkin, the clearest expert on financial macroeconomics.

Robert Shiller
The Bubbles' killer: all what you want to know on various mania, krachs, animal spirits and financial bubbles... Awfully useful in a world which was believed awash with cash...

Blog'onomics

Calculated risk and Econbowser
Two fantastic blogs on financial and business cycle economics, a must feed on your RSS reader !

L'Economie sans tabou: Bernard Salanie's blog
A French debunking economist, and one of my former teacher at ENSAE, with sharp and funny analysis, and sometime provocative from a French point of view (only), look forward to reading him again...

Econoclaste : the web site for the dummies of the dismal science
A French web site in economics that will let you feel that it's worth speaking french ;-) Go on guys, you are great!

Friend'onomics

And here are good friends'web site to visit, not famous for now but....

François Gourio's research's page
A promising young economist and a friend of mine who left the Ensae for the sunny weather of Chicago and Boston. No we are not twins, but our sites are...

Eric Dubois's research page and GROCER , the scilab econometric toolbox.
All econometric and statistical package you ever dreamt on, as a free matrix language as Scilab. Impressively rich and useful!

Frederic Gilli's research's page
All you want to know about Urban economics, Urban sprawl, housing and inequality.

ENSAE Alumni
I graduated ENSAE a long time ago, but I still have good memories and met a lot of friends there. I have also been taught a specific knowhow. Shall you discover a high demanding grad school in applied maths, economics and statistics?

Formetris
How to assess a training ? Formetris propose innovative methodologies inspired from multivariate statistics.

Anema
A leader in e-learning services. Do you know Ganesha ? Marc and his team have developped a powerful open source platform to deliver e-learning sessions.

Some other sites are to come ...