This paper is an updated guide for newly minted PhDs entering the academic finance job market for the first time. We describe the institutional details of how this labor market works and what rookies need to know to improve their chances of getting the right job. We give advice for application...

This note supplements our article, quot;The Academic Job Market in Finance: A Rookie's Guidequot; (Butler and Crack, 2005). Here we provide additional and updated job-seeking advice to rookies and lightly-seasoned academic job seekers in academic finance

This is a guide for newly minted Ph.D.'s entering the academic finance job market for the first time. The institutional knowledge of how the job market works is lost when students graduate, and advisors are often too busy or too removed from the process to give the finely detailed advice that...

An increase in the cost of short selling should increase the bearish information content of short interest announcements by driving relatively uninformed short sellers out of the market (Diamond and Verrecchia, 1987). We extend the Diamond and Verrecchia model to include short selling against...

Which journal articles have the most impact on finance research? Which journals dominate finance research in the 1990s? We answer these and similar questions using a comprehensive sample of journals, an extensive time period, and a new ranking method that avoids problems inherent in the existing...

An increase in the cost of short selling should increase the bearish information content of short interest announcements by driving relatively uninformed short sellers out of the market (Diamond and Verrecchia 1987). We extend the Diamond and Verrecchia model to include short selling against the...

We first wrote and circulated our “Rookie's Guide” paper about the academic labor market for newly minted finance PhDs twenty years ago. It passed hand-to-hand and via photocopies of photocopies sent using snail mail (or, back then, we just called it ‘mail'). Since then, much has changed...

Which journal articles have had the most impact on finance research? Which articles were most cited in each of the last 30 years? Which journals dominated finance research in the 1990s? Did any finance sub-discipline stand out or lag behind in the 1990s? We answer these and similar questions...