Economist on "Dear all who rejected me"
Especially after telling me I was good and that you guys liked me. If I referee your paper you best hope it's not on your cv or ssrn. Because I will reject it. Because you know, publication is a noisy...
View ArticleEconomist on "Considering offers in SGP"
I am in business school. Does anybody have an idea about the cost of living there? Compensation is around 300k SGP dollars. How is that for a upper middle class lifestyle? How is housing prices in...
View ArticleEconomist on "Big short"
just watched the big short- at the end Vennett gets a large cheque- why exactly? He sold CDS to Baum and his fund, so his bank must have been losing a lot when the underlying CDOs went foul- or did i...
View ArticleEconomist on "Should I even try any more?"
I have a bunch of working papers under review but no R&Rs yet. I have several new research projects going which I will likely finish by year-end. But if I don't get any hits out of the papers...
View ArticleEconomist on "Do Postdoc Positions in Finance Exist?"
I've never really seen them. Do they even exist? If they do, why are they so uncommon? Opportunity cost is too high and can't be afforded?
View ArticleEconomist on "Harrison Hong"
Eurobro here. I have attended a presentation from Hong - his working paper "Speculative Betas". I am just an uneducated monkey with no training pretending to be PhD student so I will not criticize his...
View ArticleEconomist on "Why are Assistant Professors in Europe moving to Australia?"
I've seen some moves to Australian finance departments in the past years such as assistant professors from Manheim, Erasmus etc. These people have some good publications and a good pipeline. How much...
View ArticleEconomist on "Kentucky bourbon conference"
Do EJMR bros know about this?http://www.uky.edu/financeconference/overview
View ArticleEconomist on "How can two very similar papers be both accepted at two...
Without citing each other?
View ArticleEconomist on "Swiss Industry jobs"
Finance PhD from a Swiss school graduating in a couple of years. Tired of academia and want a hedge fund job. What are the chances of getting well paying hedge fund jobs in Switzerland or London? What...
View ArticleEconomist on "I hate teaching and the research publication process yet I'm a...
I hate everything about my work except the flexibility with my time. I'm not sure it's worth it anymore. It's kinda like hiding away. I could do a lot more with my talents elsewhere probably, but I...
View ArticleEconomist on "Failed at AFA, should have gone to FMA"
I got bad advice from my advisors. They told me not to go to FMA. I now think they were focused on their own prestige, not getting the best outcome for me. Am I alone in this? Who else didn't go to...
View ArticleEconomist on "Management Science editors"
I just found out that MS had a new Finance editorial team. Anyone know who is the major department editor? FinanceRenee Adams, University of New South Wales Karl Diether, Brigham Young University...
View ArticleEconomist on "U of Michigan"
Why Michigan doesn't have any student in the market this year ?
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