Research Tips
Books
Weisbach, Mike 2021 "The Economist’s Craft" (can be downloaded from CityU HK library http://www.cityu.edu.hk/lib/ )The book is about how to do research including how to be a successful PhD student. Note that Weisbach is the former editor of RFS. It is highly recommended.
Simon W. Bowmaker, 2012, The Art and Practice of Economics Research: Lessons from Leading Minds (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) (can be found in CityU HK library)
Key Tips
How to Succeed in Academia, Lasse HejePedersen, Copenhagen Business School,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3972340
Writing Tips for PhD students, by John Cochrane, University of Chicago
http://home.bi.no/charlotte.ostergaard/students/phd_paper_writing.pdf
Tips for Finance Ph.D. students, by Luke Taylor, Wharton
http://home.bi.no/charlotte.ostergaard/students/TaylorTips.pdf
FMA’s YouTube channel: lots of good research tips: many tips including writing, publishing, and getting ideas in finance.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8DwvveNIZMmrlaSZJzveqw
Links to tips collected by other professors
Tips for PhD Students (in Finance): Taylor's tip is very nice
http://home.bi.no/charlotte.ostergaard/tips.html
Claes Bäckman's resources for PhD students
https://sites.google.com/view/claesbackman/tips-for-phd-students
Tips for Economist: Many tips on economics research (from getting ideas to leading a department)
https://sites.google.com/site/mkudamatsu/tips4economists
Advice for Phd Students in Economics
https://sites.google.com/view/econgradadvice/
The Econ Resources & Grad School Wiki
https://www.visualizecuriosity.com/econ-wiki
RA and Pre-doc advice and resources from Zahra Thabet
https://zahrathabet.com/resources.html#pre-doc-advice-and-resources
Research tips links list by Shanjun Li
http://li.dyson.cornell.edu/phdRes.php
(* highly recommended)
0. Basics
* How to read research papers efficiently (in Chinese)
https://www.zhihu.com/question/67950192/answer/258113297
1. How to get good research ideas
* Page 1 and 2 of Tips for Finance Ph.D. students, by Luke Taylor, Wharton
http://home.bi.no/charlotte.ostergaard/students/TaylorTips.pdf
* How to select/screen research ideas (in Chinese)
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/600212991
*Chapter 2 of Weisbach (2021) "The Economist’s Craft"
Pedersen, How to Succeed in Academia,
* Weisbach, Micheal, 2015, What topics are hot and why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fog0aw5aXL8
2. Executing an idea and writing
* Cochrane (2005) "Writing Tips for Ph.D. Students,"
David J. Denis, Writing for Publication, FMA Doctoral Consortium, 2014, Nashville, TN
* Michael Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) on writing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xoRxBQH3c0&t=2405s
3. Marketing and publishing a paper, networking
* Athey, Susan, top10_list_Networking,
Harvey, Campbell R., Reflections on Editing the Journal of Finance, 2006-2012 (July 10, 2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2191787
Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar, How to Make Finance Scholarship More Creative and Equitable: An Author’s Suggestions to Editors and Referees (February 25, 2013). China Accounting and Finance Review, Forthcoming. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2224060
Spiegel, M. (2012), ‘Reviewing Less—Progessing More’, Review of Financial Studies 25 (5): 1331-1338.
Welch, I. (2014), ‘Referee Recommendations’, Review of Financial Studies 27 (9): 2773-2804.
Placement of finance graduates from Hong Kong and Singapore Universities
HKUST
https://fina.hkust.edu.hk/programs/phd/past-placements
HKU
https://phd.hkubs.hku.hk//people/graduate-placement
CUHK
https://www.cuhk.edu.hk/fin/research/phd_graduates.pdf
National University of Singapore
https://bschool.nus.edu.sg/finance/phd/placements/
Singapore Management University
https://business.smu.edu.sg/programmes/phd-business-finance-research/phd-students-profile/phd-alumni
Nanyang Technological University
Selected good placements
Many HKUST PhD graduates have good placements (London Business School, University of Toronto, SMU, and Georgia Tech). Good placement from other universities include:
Simba Xin Chang (NTU)
https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/changxin/
Chen Tao (NTU)
https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/jtchen/
Si Cheng (Syracuse University)
Hao Jiang (Michigan State Univ.)
https://broad.msu.edu/profile/hjiang/
Wensi Xie (HKU)
https://www.bschool.cuhk.edu.hk/staff/xie-wensi/
Sarah Wang (Warwick)
https://www.wbs.ac.uk/about/person/qian-wang/
Xintong Zhan (Fudan)
https://sites.google.com/view/xintongzhan
Bohui Zhang (CUHK SZ)
https://sites.google.com/site/bohuizhang/