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What are the best sources to read for job market advice?

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Has a paper ever been rejected by an econ journal, or acceptance rescinded, due to outside pressure?

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Where to look for jobs apart from JOE, EconJobMarket, HigherEd Jobs?

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Not a question, but welcome to the new forum. Let it be informative and civilized. Its success depends on all of us.

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by OLIVIER_BLANCHARD (1.2k points)

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Is quantitative analysis is more important in economics than theoretical background of a research?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Arshad_Malik (140 points)

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Why not have the AEA annual meeting in Chicago every year?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Is anyone interested in a simple bargaining model that gets a 1/N split as a unique Nash equilibrium?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Structural Estimation 101

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Ariel_Karlinsky (200 points)

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Yield on PhD acceptances

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Should the government give more importance to costs accounting as well as financial accounting?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Ryan_McConnell (2.8k points)

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Looking for an econ relevant model that has local as well as global minimum in the loss function

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Cameron_Fen (300 points)

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What is the current status of Deep Learning in economics research?

asked 7 years ago by Joshua_Anumolu (200 points)

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What do working economists do day-to-day?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_6ty99z (270 points)

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BA wanting to gain exposure to econ. research, seeking advice

asked 7 years ago by JPiczon (170 points)

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How do you choose a teaching reference letter writer?

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_4u8j6j (140 points)

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Criteria for evaluating AP positions

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_8m8g9u (1.3k points)

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Handbooks of Economics: Elsevier or Routledge?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_8m3m2h (130 points)

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Should Pakistan search for bailout package or rely on its own resources to came out of present economic crises?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Arshad_Malik (140 points)

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Any suggestions to fare better in job market if you don't belong to younger cohort?

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by Econbuzz (200 points)

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Where will the Annual Meeting be held in 2020?

asked 7 years ago by KatharineC (330 points)

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Why isn't the maximum entropy approach to modelling stock return distributions from options prices more well studied

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Cameron_Fen (300 points)

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Recommendation - Good job market advice

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Employer Questions by Christina_Gravert (170 points)

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What is a good way to get the attention of employers through JOE if you are not a fresh PhDs?

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_3j4e7m (120 points)

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What are the basic macro economic fundamentals for the underdeveloped economy ?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by JANAK_RAJ_SHAH (120 points)

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Could anyone provide me with some advice, papers and documentation on gender analysis frameworks ?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Caleb_Jeremie_Dohou (100 points)

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Which software do you use to compute the Gini coefficient from a large micro database?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by SADEQUL_ISLAM (140 points)

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How many projects/papers are you working on at any one time?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by kkcarmody (230 points)

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Have you lined up people to comment on questions so as to get this forum to critical mass? [closed]

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Can I get a finance job even if I specialize in something else during my Ph.D. and am not from a top school?

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_6e4j3v (400 points)

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Does any graduate program teach the business cycle approach of Wesley Clair Mitchell?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by MIKE_MEEROPOL (130 points)

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How do you teach intermediate/advanced undergraduate macroeconomics? Do you use theory, practice, or some hybrid?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by JASON_REED (240 points)

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Sixteen economists including Solow submit a brief for Harvard in the Asian discrimination case. Are they right?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Eric Rasmusen (2.3k points)

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Should public policy try to rein in Amazon?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Len Burman (150 points)

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Market Forecasting

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by J. Scott Lane (110 points)

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What are your suggestions to improve transparency, reproducibility , and credibility of economic research?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by JOACHIM_WAGNER (160 points)

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Why does the AER publish so many more comments than the other top journals?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by Brett_Roger_Matsumoto (1.3k points)

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Letter Writers for Tenure?

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Has anyone looked at taxing economic rents in a market characterized by imperfect competition models?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by DAVID_R_RICHARDS (160 points)

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How do search committees assess candidates who apply but are not currently in academic jobs

asked 7 years ago in Job Market - Candidate Questions by user_7m2h8m (160 points)

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Are we in a period of sticky wages (nominal rigidity) and what is generally expected to happen next?

asked 7 years ago in General Economics Questions by user_5t3j5k (120 points)