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1. Economist
   24b3
   

   Australia and New Zealand is doing much better than US or the UK economy-wise. We have no civil unrest. We have universities that are willing to pay a lot to attract good quality candidates. And we have low teaching loads so that we can concentrate on getting the top 5 pubs. Unfortunately we still have a lot of deadwood but many US/UK places will become that way as budgets are cut and teaching loads increase.

   As I said before my teaching load is 2 courses (about 5 hours/wk for 12 weeks) for the year!

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2. Economist
   8d32
   

   What are some schools with active research departments in Australia and New Zealand?

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3. Economist
   b11b
   

   Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, UNSW, Queensland
   New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Waikato, Victoria Wellington

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4. Economist
   b11b
   

   ^ (assuming you specifically meant econ departments)

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5. Economist
   24b3
   

   For Oz, ANU (Australian National University) in canberra is the top one (not to be confused with University of Canberra).

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6. Economist
   7b9c
   

   For Oz, ANU (Australian National University) in canberra is the top one (not to be confused with University of Canberra).

   Totally false.

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7. Economist
   b11b
   

   Ooops. ANU absolutely should not have been left out. good call.

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8. Economist
   7b9c
   

   For Oz, ANU (Australian National University) in canberra is the top one (not to be confused with University of Canberra).

   Unless you meant the top school *in Canberra*... which I suppose you probably did.

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9. Economist
   0232
   

   Don't forget Barcelona! Arguably the best city in Europe at the time.

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10. Economist
    24b3
    

    For most people, the 3 best in Oz are Melbourne, Sydney and ANU. I have never heard of other arguments. Monash and Queensland are not really good and apparently have a real bad collegiality.

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11. Economist
    b3e6
    

    Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, UNSW, Queensland
    New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Waikato, Victoria Wellington

    Best schools in NZ: Otago, Auckland (in that order). Australia: Melbourne, UNSW, ANU, Sydney.

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12. Economist
    7b9c
    

    For most people, the 3 best in Oz are Melbourne, Sydney and ANU. I have never heard of other arguments. Monash and Queensland are not really good and apparently have a real bad collegiality.

    In terms of economics departments you are off. UNSW clearly dominates Sydney. Queensland and Monash both have some good people and rank above Sydney and arguably above ANU too. But you might be right in terms of the top three universities overall.

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13. Economist
    fd94
    

    Auckland have lost several productive people in the last two years. For the Ausralian rankings Melbourne clearly is top but for applied econ there is no consistent ordering - Monash and UTS are also in the mix.

    Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, UNSW, Queensland
    New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Waikato, Victoria Wellington
    Best schools in NZ: Otago, Auckland (in that order). Australia: Melbourne, UNSW, ANU, Sydney.

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14. Economist
    b11b
    

    For applied econ I would say Monash is a contender for the top rank

    Auckland have lost several productive people in the last two years. For the Ausralian rankings Melbourne clearly is top but for applied econ there is no consistent ordering - Monash and UTS are also in the mix.
    Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, UNSW, Queensland
    New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Waikato, Victoria Wellington
    Best schools in NZ: Otago, Auckland (in that order). Australia: Melbourne, UNSW, ANU, Sydney.

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15. Economist
    be9c
    

    What are the good places in Japan? I'm a big fan of their culture but I don't know how easy it is to fit in. Do they pay well? English instruction?

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16. Economist
    3f18
    

    What are the good places in Japan? I'm a big fan of their culture

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17. Economist
    3d95
    

    What are the good places in Japan? I'm a big fan of their culture but I don't know how easy it is to fit in. Do they pay well? English instruction?

    Easiness of fitting in? Take it from someone who worked in Japan: You will never fit in. At best, you will be perceived as not too obnoxious but still Not Japanese. (That matters a lot, BTW.) Worst: You will be ignored and shunned. However, most common is that you only make friends in certain small subgroups of Japanese who are very interested in meeting foreigners. You will still encounter discrimination everywhere you go, from stores and restaurants to trains and work situations.

    I was a big fan of Japanese culture until spending time there. Now... not so much.

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18. Economist
    2122
    

    Non-Asian (mostly white) economists who teach in Japan are married to Japanese chicks. They live there because their wives want to live there and I assume the wives take care of daily stuff, like banking, city hall, etc. If you don't have a live-in translator/care-taker for anything Japanese, living there might be frustrating.

    Some famous economists who are married to Japanese chicks go there on sabbatical. I think Ken Singleton did it. I thought David Autor is married to a Japanese girl, but he never spends time in Japan?

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19. Economist
    2c5d
    

    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.)

    How competitive is the salary? I was told they don't exactly pay well and there is very heavy teaching load (there are APs who do not even have TA's).

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20. Economist
    44d9
    

    I believe his starting salary at Nanyang was in the mid 80s USD (part of that may have been retention bonus, I don't recall) but rental housing was fully subsidized. I don't recall the teaching load, unfortunately.

    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.)
    How competitive is the salary? I was told they don't exactly pay well and there is very heavy teaching load (there are APs who do not even have TA's).

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