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angeli11 发表于 2014-5-22 00:17 ![]()
cheesechan简直太了解我们这种学生。。。其实有时候我也觉得这么活着挺累的,非要追求个reputation来保底 ...
其實我很想說很久的就是(not only you indeed), 選校, 不是等有了offer才想的是, 是申請時應該一併考慮的.
主申甚麼方向, 甚麼地區, 手上申了N個校, 全部有offer的話, 會怎樣的排著選 - 不一定from 1 to N 的有明顯的排名, 但是要有大致的tier
見過相近有如申econ問PSE, Mannheim, Bocconi怎樣選那很正常, 至於你這類的對選最常見(亦是說不清楚自己方向和preference), 最誇張的如經濟VS管理, 甚至金融VS生統就只能說令人啞掉.
本科有panel data還是不太常見的. Microecnometrics其實很有用的.....
太多的economics data不是experiemental data啦.......首先就要把各類要control的varilable都control了, 方能說keeping other things constant, our variable of interest will change X% if our treatment increase 1%......
說到底就是一個tools, 你做education economics, 就會問keep ability (how to measure ability? need proxy again) constant, how much increase in wage for each more year of education(先不說其實還有很多unobserables)
你做labour economics, 就會問keep other constant, how will labour supply changes if social security changes
taxation就會問, how investment will varies as tax changes, and many many more......
到最後, economics很多的研究題目, 就是想知道economics variable之間的關係.....
不過microeconometrics在finance/macro的用途不是很大就是了 (that's why it's called "Micro"-econometrics, in contrast to Macroeconometrics, which is mainly time series)
金融風險定量, quant risk meausre, 旨在測量risk exposure, first model the return distribution (a statistical problem indeed), then things such as VaR, ES, will measure downside risk, EVT is to measure the shape of the tail distribution (??), coplua is an important tools to model correlation between asset.
CAPM之類, 單是CAPM就不夠, 不過CAPM背後的是theortical asset price (theory again...), 想說的就是how to explain asset returns, what factor is important, how the return is related to them........
Quant risk measure is practical tools, financial economics is quite theortical indeed, i guess in this case financial econometrics is also related and important (GARCH and etc.)
in general this kind of model + statistical techniques provides a good toolbox for risk and portfolio management. The physical measure side of quantitative finance.
要知道甚麼工作做甚麼的話, 找本valut guide in finance又好, 去銀行graduate role recuirtment page看introduction也好, 等career talk多聽多問也好.......你想知道的總有方法.
Master in Financial Economics, 其實比pure MSF好一點的就是:
1. 稍微更加計量
2. in general have better intake
3. remain the chances for further study, i.e. PhD
4. better prepared for finance role sounds more related to economics, like FX, interest rate.....
當然如果打算走corp fina之類方向的話, take a MSF (or indeed acct&fina), practise more cash flow based financial model is more important.
but in that case, the reputation of the university of very very important.....and this is not a good route if one want to work oversea.
其實打算申master in economics / finance的話, 根本就不應該只申美國......太少好項目了. 美國professional finance master is mostly in MBA (Finance), academic economics就直上PhD, good master自然不多. 金工另計.
以一個純經濟背景的人來說, 精算和金工, 其實我會覺得相隔太遠, 不易handle.........如果你暑假不把stochastic process and derivatives走一遍的話, 想不水都難.
旁聽其實用途很少, 因為人的自制力是很有限的.....能每課的旁聽下去嗎?
沒有做過功課和project, 沒有相對應的hand-on experience, 會懂嗎?
沒有deadline的壓力, 沒有掛科的風險, 會真的有如註冊了的一般去讀嗎?
所謂弄得不水, 直截點說, 這是你現在真誠的想法, 一年之後, 物是人非.
如果不然的話, 你現在(或這幾天)就有一個未來一年半的學習計劃.
P.S. make it short = 睇你挨到幾耐...
you should indeed do the reverse: take the financial mathematics course in the morning, and sit the actuarial course in evening and exempt them by SoA Exam.
實說, 我不認為美國的HR不知道Continuous Education是甚麼, 金融行業的人也不會不知道Columbia的master如何.......
我見過有(讀過的)人說harvard extension is extension, is not harvard.
我有一種感覺就是, 說沒有影響的, 只是沒有感受到這個問題, 畢竟有大無數倍的visa issue擺在前面.
你參見一下是壇另有一個帖, 說NYU SCPS應該和30-50那堆比較就明白了.
留學, then 留下工作, 第二步比第一步難上無數倍, 你有了這個心理準備了嗎?
說到底, 大部份的中國留學生, 都是說想留下工作三兩年, 但是極少數有這個決心和這個認知的..
P.S. 我剛畢業時也是很多都不清楚的... |
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