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Hello everyone, I am new here but I have been reading many posts the past few days and learned quite a bit regarding Accounting PhDs. This is a great community so thank you to everyone. I notice a lot of mention of tiers when applying, but most of the applicants and tiers are towards archival side. Even when reading some academic articles on the subject, they are dated, but state that there is a noted impact on your career based on the school you choose to attend for your PhD. Basically attending a lower tier school can mean you will be very limited to opportunities is higher tiers, barring some miraculous research publications and major connections. Is there a known tier / ranking for tiers in the behavioral side (experimental or field study? Or do we just take the rankings from BYU for experimental and each topic area? And do these change when you go by topic area for managerial, audit, and financial? Furthermore, I am guessing most of these schools are in US, but are there highly recognized PhD programs (and which "tier" would be outside the US that would be recognized in US or anywhere in the world: 1. Asian Pacific 2. Canada 3. Australia Thank you for your help. And for those waiting for interview calls and results, I wish you all great luck to get into your dream schools!

Hi everyone, I am considering entering an experimental based PhD program but I have received mixed messages on such a decision. Is it really that difficult to be placed from an experimental focused program? Is it considerably more difficult to get an experimental paper published in the top 3 compared to an archival or analytical? Is it just the case that there are fewer researchers doing experimental work and that is why there are less experimental publications? Thanks in advance!

Hey Guys, Could you please recommend me a list of books that would teach me about experimental design in marketing CB?

I have received offers from University of Mayland, University of Pittsburgh and University of Virginia. I am interested in experimental and behavioral economics, and would like to work in academia after graduation. I am more inclined to accept the offer of Maryland; yet Pittsburgh and Virginia also have some strong faculty members who work in experimental and behavioral area. Any suggestions on which one is a better option?

Type of Undergrad: BA in Business Econ, low-ranked UK university Undergrad GPA: 3.7 Type of Grad: MSc in Bus Management at medium-ranked UK university & MSc in Behavioural Econ at a top 6 UK department (especially good at exp. and behav.) Grad GPA: 3.7 for both GRE: 166Q/158V/4.5 Econ Courses (grad-level): Micro (B+) Macro (A+), Metrics (B+), Econ Data analysis (A-), Time series metrics (B+), Adv. Micro (B+), Behavioural econ (A+), Experimental econ (B+), Econ Research Methodology (A-), Thesis (due at the end of the month) Econ Courses (undergrad-level): Business econ (A), Intermediate Macro (A), Japanese Econ (B+), Chinese Econ (C+), EU Econ (B), Managing the economy (B-), Business environment (A), Finance (B+), Thesis (A+), other courses in business (marketing, hr, strategy, etc.) Letters of Recommendation: 1 from MSc thesis advisor, should be quite good though not amazing (hard to say though cause he likes my ideas, likes my research interests, but he is incredibly stoic ôO) (D. Phil Oxford), 1 from Experimental professor should be pretty good too, outline my capacity and skill for conducting experiments, etc. (PhD UEA), 1 from other experimental professor, should be OK (kind of lack decent interactions in the UK in large programmes) (PhD Erfurt University) Research Experience: Small research paper for a class; one experimental paper where I had to design and conduct the experiments myself; BA and MSc theses, the latter was an experiment I designed and ran myself Teaching Experience: None Research Interests: behavioural, experimental SOP: Interest in economics, in teaching, in doing research. Some bits about how the targeted school would allow me to achieve those goals, etc. (standard in a way) Concerns: coming from the UK and given my applied econ bachelor, there are hardly any math class (in fact none in the traditional sense), but the econ classes in my MSc were very mathematics-oriented: Time series was proof-based, Micro/macro/metrics were all intensively math-based. Also my undergrad is terrible, which is solely because I had no idea what I wanted to do later and I just did f*** all for 3 years essentially. Thankfully my MSc somewhat mitigates that, but I’m painfully aware that this will stick in adcoms’ minds, and even then it’s not flawless Applying to: Chicago, UCSD, UCSB, Pittsburgh, Arizona, UT Dallas, GMU, OSU, TAMU and USC I hope this looks fairly consistent with what most people do in terms of distribution between reaches, targets and safeties. I know giving advice on uk profiles isn’t always easy, but if you maybe know something about these schools (especially GMU, USC, Arizona, OSU, UCSB) then I’d love to hear it. And if not, then thanks for checking in anyways :)

Hey guys! I'd appreciate some help in making this decision. I'm interested in pursuing behavioral/experimental econ/IO. I've gotten into the above schools - Ohio State, UVA, George Mason, Arizona, GA State, Pitt (no funding yet), and UCSB (no funding). I'd really appreciate any info you guys have about the programs or any advice you might have in helping me make this decision! Literally any info would be helpful - emphasis of the department, relationships with professors, how math-heavy or psychological the programs are, etc. THANK YOU!

Hello all - I need help finding the right masters programmes that have options in psych, behavioural, experimental economics I am Interested in pursuing a masters (and eventually a phd) in something related to the above (I know this might be vague for now). I am an upper level honours undergraduate student graduating with a good background in economics mathematics and finance. I also took the revised gre ( 750-800 revised quant gre, 610 - 710 revised verbal gre) I have done research (over the summer) in an experimental economics lab so I have some experience. I am looking into masters everywhere and eventually phd's in the united states. For now i believe i am not competitive enough for top us programs (some B'S on transcript in math and econ) but might be for top UK and Europe given top references, european background and research experience. I have read the threads http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/63785-behavioral-experimental-economics.html http://www.www.urch.com/forums/phd-economics/126904-program-strong-experimental-economics-behavioral-economics.htmlregarding behavioral experimental and neuroeconomics it seems as if the following is a pretty comprehensive list of masters for behavioural economics - Nottingham - Warwick - Maastricht - Zurich - Bonn if I understand correctly there are no masters in Canada or the US that focus on this? in the us it seems there is - NYU for neuroeconomics (only after 1st year phd) - Carnegie Mellon (decision sciences) - Caltech, MIT, Berkeley they are all phd though correct? regular masters in economics that are worth looking at seem to be - toronto in canada - nyu in the us - oxford - lse any other masters in economics programmes worth looking into? possibly masters that allow classes and thesis in behaviourally related fields (maybe classes in psychology?!) thank you for your time!