What are some unconventional places that we might look at. I probably have a shot at rank 40-70 type places, but I think it might be fun to go live somewhere else. I have a good idea about most of Europe, the UK, Australia etc. What are the good English speaking places outside these countries. For instance, how many English speaking places in Japan? I know that this is probably not the best move career wise, but I'm just not that ambitious anymore. I'm at a top 20 US btw.
Best non-US destinations for an AP job.
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To the Moscow troll, any real info on options, pay, research environment. Something called ISB is hiring in India, anyone know how much they pay?
How much does China pay to Econ guys? How is it living in China? Do you end up hanging out only with expats or are the Chinese faculty friendly?
What are the places in Japan? Any idea about pay? Japan is a notoriously closed society though, so it might be hard to get used to.
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ESMT in Berlin (yes, in Europe, but still qualifies as "unconventional"--though that will soon change...). New private, international business school. English-speaking. Models itself on LBS/INSEAD (so Amercan-style tenure-track--not German system). Offers a package comparable to those of LBS/INSEAD and top US business schools.
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SMU, NUS and Nanyang are all good places to go. Lots of research funding, reduced teaching loads, etc. They are trying to build reputations to compete with US schools. There is a bit of Chinese-style kiasu and perpetual hand-wringing about status in these places. There is lots of research productivity but not a real research culture in terms of collegiality. There are young research-intensive westerners at the junior ranks, and old deadweight Asians in the senior ranks. It is a place to go to start a career, but few stay very long. They're places you go to publish your way out of.
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The UK is broke, and Australia is parochial. No good.
(What I mean by parochial is that Australians will publish in the Australian Journal of Whatever and attend national conferences, rather than making the effort to maintain an international reputation, publish in the top outlets, etc.) Canada has an element of this outside of the top schools as well. On the up side, easy tenure review! On the downside, hard to get out.
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What are the good places in the middle east. If they pay me a lot I don't mind working there. Even if the university professors are glorified tutors to the sheiks' children. I'd work there for 5 years then go join some little place in SE Asia by the sea and spend my weekends diving.
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A former grad-school colleague went to Nanyang in Singapore - finds the department quite good overall, salaries are very competitive, but has found that Singapore gets to be a boring place to live after a while. My first choice outside of the US would be Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, London, Calgary, Victoria and Vancouver all have fairly good universities/econ depts in nice cities - I hear Quebec is a great city, but you would need to be fluent in french to live here), followed by New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington, and Dunedin are all supposed to be great lifestyle cities with good econ depts) and Australia (Sydney, Canberra, and Melbourne have good dept. and are nice places to live but Sydney and Melbourne, and to some extent Canberra, are seriously expensive.)
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New Zealand is a great option. As an English speaking country, it is easy to adjust to and also if you want to return to the States (or wherever you're from) having been employed in NZ would not be seen as a negative signal (as China would be for example).
Teaching loads are generally pretty low (about 2 courses/ academic year), pay is good (inflation adjusted every year + jump on scale every year) and lifestyle is good.
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What you say about Australia is true of the lower ranked schools, but is no longer true of the better schools. I'm at UNSW and we are now shooting for top international journals and conferences.
The UK is broke, and Australia is parochial. No good.
(What I mean by parochial is that Australians will publish in the Australian Journal of Whatever and attend national conferences, rather than making the effort to maintain an international reputation, publish in the top outlets, etc.) Canada has an element of this outside of the top schools as well. On the up side, easy tenure review! On the downside, hard to get out.