Finance PhD Tutorial

Finance PhD Research Tutorial

This page collects materials from a 13-week tutorial designed to help Finance PhD students generate research ideas, build efficient research workflows, write papers, present research, and navigate the publication process.

Syllabus

• Download the course syllabus

Weekly Slides

• Week 1: Overview of Finance PhD Program and Job Market
• Week 2: Creating Research Ideas
• Week 3: Pitching Research Ideas and Giving Feedback
• Week 4: Writing Finance Papers and Project Planning
• Week 5: Identification and Research Design
• Week 6: Cleaning Data and Efficient Research Workflows
• Week 7: Producing Tables Workflow
• Week 8: Producing Figures Workflow
• Week 9: LaTeX Workflow
• Week 10: How to Write an Introduction
• Week 11: Writing Data, Institutional Details, Methods, and Results
• Week 12: Navigating Referees, Revisions, and Resubmissions
• Week 13: Presenting Research and Beamer Workflow

Code and Workflow Files Overleaf Demos

• Overview of coding best practices \& LaTEX paper formatting
  • Covers:
    • Tables (esttab / LaTeX integration)
    • Figures (ggplot workflow)
    • Paper organization in Overleaf (for advanced_main.tex make sure to set LaTEX compiler to 2020 (Legacy))
• Sample Overleaf Presentation
  • Covers:
    • Sample Beamer layout and set-up
• Advanced Overleaf Presentation
  • Covers:
    • Advanced Beamer formatting (make sure to set LaTEX compiler to 2020 (Legacy))