Finance job market candidates from 54 universities. Updated 17 Oct 2026. Links go to the original sources.
Disclaimer: compiled from public sources with AI assistance; may be incomplete or contain errors, and some earlier-year job market papers are inferred. Not affiliated with any listed school. Corrections or removal requests: siyang.liu@sauder.ubc.ca
What data finance job market papers use?
Each paper counted once, by its most restricted source. Share of papers in each market.
Papers that build a new dataset (hand-collected, scraped, digitized, obtained by FOIA, text-extracted, or a newly released source). Availability was double-checked against author sites, GitHub, Dataverse, Zenodo and journal replication packages: Public sources = can be rebuilt entirely from free data; Needs licensed data = also requires subscription databases; Posted = the dataset itself is downloadable.
Each dot is a job market paper, placed by the similarity of its title and abstract; papers on the same research topic cluster together. Topics were assigned by reading each paper into one of ten finance fields. Click a topic to highlight its papers; hover a dot for details.
Position reflects text similarity only; the axes have no units.
Share of each market's papers in the topic (same scale in every panel). Click a panel to highlight the topic above.
Where did candidates go? First job after the market, from school placement pages and candidates' CVs, for markets. Current positions may differ.
All markets combined, sorted by share placed in academic jobs (faculty or postdoc).
Where did the job market papers end up? Outcomes for candidates, checked against each candidate's current CV or website and journal records (Crossref). Retitled or coauthored later versions of the same project count. Recent cohorts have had little time to publish.
Candidates whose first placement after the market was an academic job or postdoc (not their current position). Candidates with no recorded placement are excluded.
Years from the job market (November of the market year) to the paper's first appearance online at the journal, for published and accepted papers with a journal DOI. Recent cohorts can only include papers that were published quickly, so this likely understates the typical time.