[选校求助]BU Econ PhD v.s. Duke Econ MA

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26# blingbling
本科到Duke那真是非常的强了，这个选择还是非常不确定的。呵呵~

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27# Jordi
Thank you, Jordi! It is very nice that you can share your information in details.

According to your information, I guess BU is better that Duke in Econ.

By the way, how to know who are 大牛 professors? Is there any criterion? How can I lean this? To be honest, I have no idea about how popular the guy you mentioned.

Actually, I thought I would like theoretical work in IO or information economics or game theory. After trying modeling several times, I found it was difficult for me to handle the modeling stuff. So far, almost all my research experience is empirical work. I also learned that most of the work of RA is dealing with data. So I guess I won't try theoretical work until my Ph.D. or even after that. The main reason I prefer theoretical stuff is that I believe it will bring me more sense of self-fulfilling. And I know it is harder than empirical stuff.

Some of my friends who vote for Duke encouraged me to apply for finance Ph.D. after M.A, cause they say placement of finance Ph.D. is much better than economics. But my undergraduate study mainly focuses on economics, so I am quite confused on whether I should switch to finance or not.

As I can tell, each school enrolls 3-5 finance Ph.D. Though it would be much harder to get into a finance Ph.D. program, I am wondering whether it would be also easier to survive.

In conclusion, I am not very sure about the situations of Ph.D. and also confused on how to move on.

Any further advice is most welcomed.

Anyway, thanks much for your info. and advice. It helps a lot! :)

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Hanming Fang教授，当年的RES tour candidate， 终于回到他的母校了！

Duke给钱，项目也不错！尤其那个牛教授Professor Tauchen!
Durrett 发表于 2009-4-21 07:14

Professor Tauchen是不是就是那个传说中发明Garch模型的那个牛牛啊？我对牛教授知之甚少，属于菜鸟中的菜鸟，还望达人赐教:loveliness:
另外还想请教一下Duke是否还有其他一些牛教授呢？谢谢谢谢~:)

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看了一下Hanming Fang教授的CV，感觉确实不是一般的牛啊！而且好像是Duke经济系唯一的中国教授了，看来Duke要损失一位大牛了。。。

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32# bless_uibe

The only way to judge the ability of professor is their publication in top journals and editor position. Certainly even some big names don't have these, but for most cases this criterion works.

My feeling is Duke is on the very top in finance, and the placement of finance is surely better than most Economics PhD. However, I guess the competition for a slot in Fuque Business School is very severe, and a master from Duke, perhaps except being on the first of the list or making very good impression on those powerful professors in Fuque, is still not sufficient to get a position. Anyway, on this topic you should consult with the students there.

And actually I feel that due to small number of Fin PhD, it's easier to survive than enter the programme.

Let's count the famous professors in BU on Micro theory (this is quite personal and inevitably biased, please take it into account)

Larry Epstein (http://people.bu.edu/lepstein/), he has dozens of publication in top-5 journals and top field journals. His publication on Econometrica perhaps exceeds any active micro theorists now!
Barton Lipman (http://people.bu.edu/blipman/), also a big name.
Basically these two persons could guarantee that BU is the best on Decision Theory, and constitute strong background for game theory.
Christopher Chamley (http://www.bu.edu/econ/faculty/chamley/index.html), his work focus across macro and micro, but information is highlight.
Jacob Glazer(http://people.bu.edu/glazerj/), he has some works coauthored with Ariel Rubinstein.
Albert Ma (http://www.bu.edu/econ/faculty/ma/), he also has important contribution to economics of information.
      MICHAEL MANOVE
DILIP MOOKHERJEE
ZVIKA NEEMAN
ANDREW NEWMAN
These guys are also very good on economic theory and IO (theory part)

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35# Jordi
I just looked through their CVs. Those guys are really fantastic! More important, they are still very active, having several papers published on the top journals each year.  I should have noticed this earlier.
Thank you, Jordi! I really appreciate your help!:loveliness:

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35# Jordi
One more question, please!:)
You mentioned editor position. What is the difference between co-editor and associate editor? Which one is more powerful？:D

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Larry Epstein的确没得说，而且BU的时间序列也有著名的Philips-Perron test里的Pierre Perron坐镇。我BU的同学说，其实BU不是公立，她的phd是靠ma项目养的，经济不好的时候，读ma的人不会减少，所以经费至少不会比以前差，也就意味着淘汰率是一样的。但是BU的淘汰确实太恶心了，两次Q的淘汰是独立的，所以第一年的Q过了不会让你第二年更踏实。

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另外，我的正式身份依然是北欧版版主，经济版是因为halking不在，所以暂时代理的，我的主要职责是为halking选一个继任。

你问jordi的最后一个问题我有一个不太确定的回答，就是如果没有editor职位的杂志，几位co-editor就是相当于“共同”editor，如果在有editor职位的杂志里，如果叫editor的人只有一个，那么那个editor其实相当于managing editor，co-editor是真正的editor，如果叫editor的人有若干，那么co-editor就是相当于associate editor。

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Larry Epstein的确没得说，而且BU的时间序列也有著名的Philips-Perron test里的Pierre Perron坐镇。我BU的同学说，其实BU不是公立，她的phd是靠ma项目养的，经济不好的时候，读ma的人不会减少，所以经费至少不会比以 ...
turkeyk 发表于 2009-4-21 20:06

哇~BU的两次Q是独立的！听起来确实很恐怖~~
正常一点的是怎么算的呢，只用过了第一年的Q基本上就不会被drop out了吗？

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39# turkeyk
原来是这样，您在经济版也分享了很多北欧的情况阿~感觉您一直有心想帮助我们这些晚辈少走弯路~非常nice的版主:loveliness:
虽然关于editor的解释还是有点不太明白，但是我的理解是不是co-editor>=associate editor?呵呵~有点奇怪的表达方式~呵呵~
谢谢版主的解答！:)

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BU最近几年的placement result并不加以区别post doc或者visiting assistant professor的职位。所以单看他们网站上的统计并不那么让人信服。

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co-editor >=associate editor.
我觉得turkeyk的解释很全面，也许只差几个例子，呵呵。

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43# Jordi
好的，非常感谢Jordi和turkeyk的解答！谢谢:)

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42# baise
是呢，以前都没有注意到过。。。
good point:)