帮忙看看我申请FINANCE PHD 有没有希望?

cfpl

Thank you both lesliejy and GigaGem

I will follow your advice.  But I am not sure if I can gain enough finance knowledge in a short period of time to Taoci. Actually, I am trying to register one intermediate microeconomics this term and possibly will take the macroeconomics next term.

Is there any good ways to learn finance knowledge other than textbook?

Thanks a lot!

GigaGem

Micro economics is quite important, but i dont think macro is so important for "finance"

Just browsing through the academic journals and find your interest.

What do u prefer, coporate finance or financial market?

cfpl

Well, I am not quite sure which I prefer since I know very little about them. My intuition is that I prefer coporate finance or risk management.

BTW, which finance academic journals that you recommand me to read? Is any one can be freely downloaded from internet?

Thanks,

lesliejy

Given your strong physics background, you may choose math finance or computational finance if you are also confident in your programming skills such as C++ or Matlab.

The top finance journals are Journal of finance, Journal of financial economics and Review of Financial studies. Among others, Journal of banking and finance is also good.

I agree with GigaGem, micro and macro are not that important to learn for finance guy. You just need to know the supply and demand curve and its application in financial markets. (esp. the interest rate and exchange rate markets)

Good Luck

GigaGem

corporate finance needs a lot of economics and management stuff.  Researchers with good culture background and economics accumulation are more suitble , i think.

Physics ground are very good for modeling for finance.

wish u good luck.

skysaber

Quantitative finance should be your focus, I guess. Try this website:

www.global-derivatives.com