Useful Links

Useful resources for Finance PhD students:

Advice on research, writing, and publishing:

Articles:

“The Economist’s Craft: A Scholar’s Introduction to Research, Publishing, and Professional Development” by Michael Weisbach. [Link]
“Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students” by John Cochrane. [Link]
“Learnings From 1,000 Rejections” by Alex Edman. [Link]
“Preparing a Referee Report: Guidelines and Perspectives” by Jonathan Berk, Cam Harvey, and David Hirshleifer. [Link]
Steve Pischke’s Resources for Economics PhD Students. [Link]

Videos:

AFA Panel on “How to Come Up with Great Research Ideas in Finance.” [Link]
Jay Ritter on “How to Write an Empirical Paper (and how to Referee One)”. [Link]
Joseph Engelberg’s advice to PhD students. [Link]
Michael Weisbach on “Why and How does the Journal Process Work & What Topics are Hot?”[Link]
Robert Marquez on “Finding Research Topics.” [Link]

Advice on the academic job market:

“How to Succeed in Academia or Have Fun Trying” by Lasse Heje Pedersen. [Link]
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Market” by Eric Zwick. [Link]
“A rookie’s guide to the academic job market in finance: The labor market for lemons” by Alexander W. Butler and Timothy F. Crack. [Link]
“Finance Job Market Advice” by Peter Iliev. [Link]

Online courses and YouTube channels featuring finance research:

Databases available for finance research at the University of Illinois [Link]

Fun facts about the relationship between UIUC and China:

Illinois-China History [English] [Chinese]
“Across the Pacific: The University of Illinois and China,” by Poshek Fu. [Link]
“University of Illinois has 100-year history of interaction with China,” by Jodi Cohen, Chicago Tribune. [Link]
“U. of I. builds an Illini presence in China, ” by Jodi Cohen, Chicago Tribune. [Link]