hiop67

I am yet to hear back from there, so I am assuming I am on an implicit waitlist. I do not have any other admission offers right now. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Economics department at SSE? I can see there are some big names in micro theory (Ellingsen, Weibull) and macro-theory. But the applied emperical fields seem to be completely neglected. In terms of placements, how does SSE fare? How does the department compare to top-20 universities in the US? How is it ranked within Europe? I was talking to my batchmates about SSE, and they were of the opinion that the grad students there are basically rejects from other European programs.