Resolve YES if the Finance PhD candidate accepts a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at one of the 30 schools listed below as their first job-market placement after graduating from their PhD before the end of 2026.
Resolve NO otherwise, including any of the following cases:
The candidate accepts a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at a school not on the list.
The candidate takes an industry position.
The candidate accepts a post-doc position.
The candidate does not go on the market this year (i.e., for employment starting Fall 2026).
There might be some debate about whether a department counts as a finance department. The rule of thumb is, if the University doesn't officially have a finance department, then a position in the business school generally counts. A position in an Economics department generally doesn't count.
The list is compiled roughly based on the ASU Finance Department ranking.
Do not debate whether other schools should be included, this list is fixed. Treat this as an arbitrary list of 30 schools if you will.
List of 30 schools relevant for resolution:
Harvard University
U Chicago
U Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Stanford University
MIT
Columbia University
New York University
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Yale University
Ohio State University
Duke University
Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Northwestern University
Cornell University
London School of Economics
London Business School
USC
Boston College
UT Austin
UNC Chapel Hill
UIUC
Washington University in St. Louis
Indiana University (Kelley)
University of Maryland
University of Washington
Arizona State University
Emory University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of Utah
Update 2025-11-15 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): Candidates must accept positions before the end of 2026 (not before January 1st, 2026) to resolve YES.
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- YES: Chi Xu, Jessica Li, Joanna Harris Murphy, Patrick Adams, Oliver Xie.
- NO: Tasaneeya Viratyosin, Guanyu Zhou, Ching-Tse Chen, Bianca He, Filippo Cavaleri, Christian Kontz, Pauline Liang, Edoardo Marchesi.
Still waiting: Meichen Qian.
@prismatic I have attempted to follow the links in your table, but I am not confident in my ability to confirm whether these personal sites and other related resources are up to date, and I have spent a lot of time trying to know for sure that I'm resolving this correctly.
For example, they may claim that they are in such-and-such position at the top of their personal website, but I can't easily confirm if they are current or if they are out of date. Can you present an argument that proves that these sources are, in fact, up to date? (Preferably with clickable links instead of an image I have to run through OCR?)
This market is still live, and I could believe @ben_wu could come back with a more confident ruling than I can. They've only been inactive for about a month.
If you believe you can make a firm case with an argument I can confidently follow, feel free to ping the mods again! For now, I'm going to move this out of the mod queue.