Looks like he is very good at starting projects - has finished nothing
His coauthors are having a hard time getting him to deliver. He is young and not at the level of Acemoglu and Akcigit. He needs to do his share of the work.
Felipe Saffie
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Ah yes Lopes de Melo beats them all. I had forgotten about that guy. What happened with him?
I don't recall any recent top 20 hire who bombed so badly, say over the last ten years. Absolutely zero publications.
Rafael Lopes de Melo and Thomas Baranga were very good lemons back in the days
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Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
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These are strong allegations
Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
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Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
These are unfair allegations, and absolute lies.
You don't have to go that far to defend Felipe.
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Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
These are unfair allegations, and absolute lies.
You don't have to go that far to defend Felipe.This is funny :) Okay, say "absolute lies". Anyway, no offense. I am not defending Felipe, just making the point that he spends time with students, and tried to give constructive advice. This can be irrelevant to any other issues (like tenure position decision), but this is true.
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Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
These are unfair allegations, and absolute lies.
You don't have to go that far to defend Felipe.This is funny :) Okay, say "absolute lies". Anyway, no offense. I am not defending Felipe, just making the point that he spends time with students, and tried to give constructive advice. This can be irrelevant to any other issues (like tenure position decision), but this is true.
This is what you said " There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC."
Cancel almost half of their PhD classes? That's a lie. The rest is also mostly false.
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Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
These are unfair allegations, and absolute lies.
You don't have to go that far to defend Felipe.This is funny :) Okay, say "absolute lies". Anyway, no offense. I am not defending Felipe, just making the point that he spends time with students, and tried to give constructive advice. This can be irrelevant to any other issues (like tenure position decision), but this is true.
This is what you said " There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC."
Cancel almost half of their PhD classes? That's a lie. The rest is also mostly false.Not a lie. Sebnem does this every semester in her PhD class.
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Sadly true though!
These are strong allegations
Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
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Former UMD student here. I can confirm every single word written below.
Okay, he may have downsides. BUT to be fair, he is one of the people who spend time with his students at UMD macro. There are "big" names at UMD, who have almost no positive spill-overs to the department, do visit their offices rarely, and do have no time for students. Some of them cancel almost half of their PhD classes during each semester, because they work on outside projects and institutions/firms in DC. There are cases where advisor and PhD students meet only 1-2 times each year (I mean, main advisor!). It is bad that PhD students do have less people available in the campus. UMD Macro needs to take some action to make advisors care and spend time with students.
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And how many do you have? If you are a junior person who tires to establish himself (no coauthoring with seniors and stars) and in need of top 5 you just might be unlucky. Your chance of acceptance is like 2 percent at most unless you have famous or established coauthor. The guy is working hard and he will get them soon. True, he could've gone to macro dynamics and jedc and got all of them published but that would not grant him tenure at umd.
Three pages discussing a guy with zero publications?!