ctrain Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 I'm most interested in Macro. Most people have told me that Minnesota is stronger in Macro, but Wisconsin is stronger in anything empirical, and both places are very cold. I hear people without strong empirical skills have a hard time on the job market. Both have given me similar financial packages. I just... don't know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutonic Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 If you want to do macro, Minnesota is a no-brainer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modest Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Don't feel comfortable giving definitive advice on where you should go, but Guvenen+Karabarbounis- and throw in Heathcote and Perri at the Minneapolis Fed- is a pretty strong applied macro group. You obviously won't be doing applied micro anytime soon at Minneapolis, but there is a lot of good structural work being done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiecsdiego Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 Go to Minnesota man!!!! See you there :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctrain Posted March 14, 2018 Author Share Posted March 14, 2018 Haha great, I like the consistency of these responses. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chateauheart Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 I'm most interested in Macro. Most people have told me that Minnesota is stronger in Macro, but Wisconsin is stronger in anything empirical, and both places are very cold. I hear people without strong empirical skills have a hard time on the job market. Both have given me similar financial packages. I just... don't know. Conditional on macro, Minnesota is very well-represented in empirical/computational work, as are most of the other historically freshwater schools. That advice you hear is most likely intended for micro/applied micro students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zhig Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 I am a phd student at UW. I definitely recommend Minnesota if you want to be successful in Academics in the future. Recently UW has giving many phd degrees to Asian central bankers (who stay univ only for 3 years!) very easily, which means there will be less value of UW's phd in the near future. The performance of UW students in the job market will become worse too. Minnesota is very rigid to permitting phd degree to grad students and keep their values. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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