Hi

I am currently in my master study in a university in London. But dissertation supervisor looks like being interested in me and wants to supervisor me for Phd study. I am not sure the potential supervisor is him or another professor. My dissertation supervisor is not a professor, he is a senior lecturer and he graduated in a top15 university in the UK few years ago.

My university ranks very so so, in between 80 and 90 in the UK....according to the new ranking, the academic score of my uni is just 2.2.

i don't know what I should do now. i know if i want to stay, it will be more easier for me because my dissertation supervisor will give me a topic for the research proposal. otherwise i need to write it myself...i think it's hard. My dream is to be a teacher in the UK. That's the main reason for me to take Phd. of course i want to have good knowledges as well.

but, honestly speaking, if my Phd potential supervisor is that professor,then i really want to stay because he is a kind of famous. i know it's is very likely that i won't follow a professor if i apply for another universities. so what do you think guys? do you thing it is worth taking a phd in this university that has not good ranking??

Thanks:):):)

Hello everyone

I am writing my dissertation now and i need to find out some stocks' offer date, which is also know as the period of pre-selling. Does anyone who know about this? I didn't find anything in the prospectus or datastream.

Please help me out, i really need this for my dissertation and it is essential !

I appreciate for your help.

PS:

now i am confused with the definition of that.

If anyone knows about the stock market, please read the following:

I use the mythology used by Aggarwal et al. (1003) and Khurshed and Mudambi (2002). It's about the initial return of the stock.

firstly, they calculate the The return of the stock i in period t is calculated as:

R_it=P_it/P_i0 -1,where R_it=P_it/P_i0 -1.

Then The corresponding market return for stock i in period t is calculated as

R_mt=P_mt/P_m0 -1, Where Pmt is the market value at the end of period t and Pm0 is the market value on the offer day of the stock i.
Finally, they calculate the market adjusted abnormal return (MAAR) for the stock i in the period t :

〖MAAR〗_it=[((1+R_it ))/((1+R_mt ) )-1]*100

So my question is, in the first equation, we use the offer price when the investor buy the share before the share trading publicly. and the 3rd equation we use to get the market adjusted abnormal return, therefore, we should use the corresponding date for the 2nd equation. Does this make sense? So the corresponding date for the 2nd equation should be the date we used in the 1st equation, which is the time when investors buy the shares. So the "offer date" should not be the date of the first trading day of the shares. Am I right?

Hi

I just saw on the website of findaphd.com there are a lot of phd projects which have already defined research area and future things. I just don't understand if I see something that I am interested in in those phd projects, do i still need to write a proposal? and what is the difference between such phd projects and if I write a proposal myself then apply for phd? Thanks a lot.

thanks for your answer! So a new area, and, what about something has been mentioned, i mean just something looks logical, and a lot of researchers have concluded on that thing, but they have different answers, why no one has explained about why the aswers are different, but I want to explore it, is this a new area?

any one can help me?

Congratulation! You much have a good Phd proposal already. I have all modules with distinction so far but I don't have a good topic for the proposal. I am still struggling with it! Can you share your experience of how you prepare your proposal? I am NOT asking about your topic, but just the experience you have. Thanks :)

Hello everyone

i hope I am not the first one to ask about the Phd proposal. I just feel so bad now.

I am a Chinese student in master study in the UK. So far I have finished all my modules and I am writing my dissertation at the moment. I got all distinctions for my 6 modules and I am confident that I will get distinction for my dissertation as well after 2 months.

Then I want to take Phd study in the UK for another 4 years(or 3 years). Frankly speaking, I don't recognize myself is a clever student, but I always work hard. Well, procrastination happens sometime...

I am interested in the stock market, venture capital, private equity. Recently I have read some articles, but I don't seen anything new.... I met a teacher in my university. She is a Phd and from Vietnam. She just negated me when I try to explain some of my ideas.

Now I am being confused. I just listed few questions below, really hope someone can help me:

1, Does it mean I have not read enough article? or just because I am not eligible for Phd?

2, what does mean "a new area"? is it the same as a gap in some articles? For example, a new research has studied on the question A which has never been studied before. And we know this study can not cover everything in that topic. So if I have noticed problem B in that article and found there is no one that has studied on the problem B, is this a new area??? can Any one give me a example?

Interestingly, my dissertation is about the 2008 financial crisis and venture backed IPOs, which is topic that no one has researched on it....I didn't find anything about this topic.... I don't know why, maybe it's not worth researching on it because there were not a lot new issues after the crisis.....

I really appreciate is any one can help me out! Thanks in advance!