What's a theorist in finance?
Like how a stock or bond works?
Well, clearly you are making the wrong comparison. You can compare this too the current stuff in physics, which isn’t any more encouraging.
"Deadlock on the Board"
Saw a few minutes of this talk online
When one reads about the path-breaking discoveries in physics and chemistry in the 1800s-early 1900s, one can't help but get discouraged about even the purpose of econ/finance academia today
No, this is is called no impact research. In all dimensions
It is deep theory. It takes times to understand it. In time this will changes.
She has no citations!
Even controlling for the fact that she does theory, she has no citations!
Compare with Martin Martin Oehmke
Maybe not a coincidence but these can still be of good or bad quality, high or low impact. And we don’t need to see them live we can read the papers
So much jealousy here:
Giorgia and Jason both rock.
Everybody who tells otherwise has not seen them live.
And: A sequence of top pubs is never a coincidence.