Economist on "Looking for underplaced juniors"
My department wants to play market inefficiency. We don't look at fresh phd anymore and try to hire underplaced/underpaid juniors.Who are the best candidates? we want people tenurable in a few years.
View ArticleEconomist on "Compensation history for econ consulting"
year 1 - base $150,000, signing $25,000 year 2 - base $150,000, bonus $30,000 year 3 - base $170,000, bonus $80,000 year 4 - base $185,000, bonus $82,000 year 5 - base $185,000, bonus $165,000 year 6 -...
View ArticleEconomist on "Turnover at MS"
Seems to be much longer than in top tier finance journals no?
View ArticleEconomist on "FRL vs. EL"
I have a short finance paper to submit somewhere.Which one would be better for credits?
View ArticleEconomist on "Industry at FMA"
Anybody get any calls from non-academia for interviews at FMA?
View ArticleEconomist on "Harvard BS: no finance candidates?"
http://www.hbs.edu/doctoral/placement/Pages/students-job-market.aspxAm I wrong?
View ArticleEconomist on "King Fahd Univ"
Does anybody know how much they actually pay for finance?I know I know, 99 virgins and one free trip back home each year... but do they actually pay very high salaries or is that just talk?
View ArticleEconomist on "Can someone explain the intuition behind"
the "don't do theory" slogan on EJMR.I know theory-market is tough, but then what to do if you find out that you have a stupid theorist mind set? i.e, absolutely ridiculous extent of abstraction when...
View ArticleEconomist on "Randall Wright"
I'm second year wisconsin student wanting a career in finance. Is Randall Wright good to study macro finance to get a hedge fund job? Is Wisconsin's prestige high in Wall Street?
View ArticleEconomist on "HK/SG finance tenure 2016"
Who got it where?Has JC got it at SMU?Have DC and RS got it at HKUST?Has JC got it at CUHK?
View ArticleEconomist on "B-School professor outside earning power by discipline"
Professors of which disciplines have most earnings power? Finance / Accounting / Marketing / Organizational behavior?My impression has been that professors in the softer, lower paying disciplines...
View ArticleEconomist on "Job market for finance theory?"
It's been a consensus here that micro theory has very bad job perspective: schools don't hire theorist and industry only wants reg monkeys.How about finance theory? Do bschools hire lots of theorists?...
View ArticleEconomist on "Best Finance JMP 2016"
Did the Finance Theory Group decide on the best paper award?
View ArticleEconomist on "UCL cancels opening of MBA program"
UCL strong!https://www.ft.com/content/7c6564f8-8625-11e6-8897-2359a58ac7a5
View ArticleEconomist on "Compensation history for econ consulting"
year 1 - base $150,000, signing $25,000 year 2 - base $150,000, bonus $30,000 year 3 - base $170,000, bonus $80,000 year 4 - base $185,000, bonus $82,000 year 5 - base $185,000, bonus $165,000 year 6 -...
View ArticleEconomist on "Maximum download from WRDS per week"
I am trying to download a LOT of data from WRDS this week. Is there an upper limit set up by WRDS? I don't want my account to be temporarily suspended...
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