EK's JMP topic is eerily similar to the JMP of an accounting candidate last year. Below are copied from another thread:
I just showed my classmate (in accounting) EK's paper, and we found out that it's the same research question as an accounting job candidate paper (UCLA) from last years market!
Can someone tell me how these papers are different? Both seem to be about how revolving doors affect analysts forecasting behavior. How could such a paper land her a top finance job, I thought top finance job requires big ideas, good methodology/identification is not enough.
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/finance/pdf/KempfRevolvingDoors%20(JMP).pdf
compare with:
https://www.business.utah.edu/sites/default/files/jmp_lourie.pdf
and a very similar idea has been published on JFE (Cornaggia):
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2150998