Economist on "2017 ARWU Finance Ranking"
http://www.shanghairanking.com/Shanghairanking-Subject-Rankings/finance.htmlDiscuss.
View ArticleEconomist on "Summer support at 3-0 schools"
What they typically pay to research active faculty? 2/9? 1/9?
View ArticleEconomist on "How is Plos One considered in finance?"
yes i know nobody in finance publishes there, but plos one is worldwide well known general interest interdisciplinary journal.assume you already have a few pubs in top three, does it make sense to send...
View ArticleEconomist on "Python vs. Matlab vs. Java vs. C++ (for finance)"
i am planning to learn one of these and i do not know which one to choose. python seems more sexy?
View ArticleEconomist on "should i upload every paper to SSRN? what are the cons and pros?"
some upload everything, some don't even have a ssrn account. what are the determinants of such a heterogeneity???
View ArticleEconomist on "Pablo Fernandez, when will you stop your spam?"
Every several months, I receive spam emails from Pablo Fernandez and I got it again this week. This may increase your SSRN ranking but this just indicates that you and your crappy Spanish school (even...
View ArticleEconomist on "On the corruption in top finance journals"
There is an interesting trend in the recent topics on the Finance forum. Corruption at RFS, corruption at JFE, people claiming that their schools are counting RoF as better than RFS and JFQA as better...
View ArticleEconomist on "WTF happened to Princeton finance?"
In the past couple of years they've lost Sannikov, Hong, Scheinkman, Sraer, and Bernanke (if you count him not coming back as a loss). It looks like all that's left are Xiong, Mian, and Brunnermeier....
View ArticleEconomist on "What is going with the JF?"
been waiting on them for eternity on a first submission. Is this the new normal?
View ArticleEconomist on "How do EU bros feel now working at Brexit universities?"
Think about - EU student enrollment going down - potential faculty layoffs, especially from the EU, - EU funding breaking away - ...Or, doesn't that affect you at all short-term and long-term?
View ArticleEconomist on "Top 20 Schools in Finance"
I guess the Top 10 is relatively settled (Booth, Stanford, NYU, Wharton, MIT, Harvard, Haas, Kellogg, Columbia,Duke). What's the ranking of the next tier?
View ArticleEconomist on "Advice for AP at top 50 that wants to move down for location?"
AP a couple of years out here. I am at one of the 50 schools that consider themselves top 25, so lets say top 50. I have one top 3, and one second tier (lets say JCF level) and nothing else. I would...
View ArticleEconomist on "JFE is a joke"
Why assign papers to an editor who's going on summer vacation for many weeks? Give it to somebody else who'll actually do their job.
View ArticleEconomist on "WFA meetings"
How were they this year? Good location? Good papers? Good discussions?
View ArticleEconomist on "Who is up for tenure in finance 2016-2017"
So who is up this year? What are the odds that any of them get it? I'll start the list.LT and VG at Wharton. I think both of these cases are about 50-50.
View ArticleEconomist on "Tenure at UNSW finance"
what are their requirements? some of their senior lecturers' publication are pathetic.
View ArticleEconomist on "Leaving the Tenure Track - Update"
This was my post 7 months ago: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/leaving-the-tenure-trackI was a little scared about leaving my AP job for industry, but I can honestly say now that it was perhaps the...
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