Economist on "Finance AP positions in Germany"
Please, discuss. What are salaries, teaching load, tenure standards, research budgets?I'm a lrm (u.s. top 50-60) phd student who is going to be on the job market next year. I strongly prefer academia,...
View ArticleEconomist on "University of Brunei"
They are advertising some positions there in Finance. Anyone with insider info about that place? Seems a bit scary when you read about it (sharia law etc) but there also seems to be quite a large expat...
View ArticleEconomist on "I'm starting my own hedge fund. Guess the name?"
Anger capital management -- fierce returns through maddening intellect. What do you think?
View ArticleEconomist on "1 top3 in 8 years"
1 RFS, JFE, JF, 8 years after phd. How's this record? Below average?
View ArticleEconomist on "Zero Offer Club"
First round are out there. not sure about the chance for second round... time to be depressed?
View ArticleEconomist on "Professional Prestige Ranking in Finance"
This applies to people in FINANCE and your "Street Credibility"Many academics have suffered embarassment from being a "pretender" or a "wanna-be". Before you take it too far and become embarassed...
View ArticleEconomist on "This year's finance star's job market paper"
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...
View ArticleEconomist on "Of all the stars this year"
Only 3 got top offers. All the others are at worse than top 60 institutions. So, who is going to the top 30 places?
View ArticleEconomist on ""Wish you the best of luck in your search""
Got this reply to my thank you letter from a search committee member two days after a campus visit. Does it imply I'm out of the game? I'm so nervous because this is my last chance.
View ArticleEconomist on "Where did Gupta (Columbia gsb) end up?"
Where did Gupta (Columbia gsb) end up? I heard he got anderson and Stern, I s that right? what about other flyouts?
View ArticleEconomist on "The death of traditional "finance" education?"
Just been to this industry conference where everyone was trashing the value of MBAs with finance concentrations and how dumb they are compared to ugrads in math and sciences. If this is the norm then...
View ArticleEconomist on "2016: Rise of the euro fenance JMCs"
So no one would have predicted Booth giving offers to EK and DS..is this a temporary anomaly or the start of a new trend?
View ArticleEconomist on "Where is YZ (Harvard) placed?"
He was pushed very hard and had lots of top flyouts.
View ArticleEconomist on "Is Rochester any good for finance?"
It seems that they were once okay but have slid over the years and are top 40 at best.
View ArticleEconomist on "Any Tenured could chime in on what it means to be"
tenured. I really really want to get a glimpse of the life of a tenured professor in a <top 30 school. Honest answers only. I imagine you have to publish at least one paper every couple of years to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Identity hiring plagues theorist JMCs"
The bias against theorists is incredible. Our department will never hire a pure theorist. No matter what. The majority rules and at most departments the majority are empiricists. Doesn't matter how...
View ArticleEconomist on "UofT finance to toilet"
The faculty do not care about your placement. There is no structure in the program. Current year only one student of three in JM got just one academic flyout. The other two did not get a single flyout...
View ArticleEconomist on "The reality of pay in finance this year"
https://www.econ-jobs.com/economics-jobs/assistant-professor-business-economics-11199LJL, I'm glad I switched to Econ.
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