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In December of 2020, I received my economics PhD.  My field of study is primarily where economics and finance mix (i.e. 'financial economics').  So in an effort to stay up-to-date with research and highlight papers that are both exciting and have significant social value, I've decided to do a few things: Subscribe to the top journals in financial economics - known as the 'top 3', these are the most coveted places to publish financial economics research.  These include the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. Read and summarize the articles as they are published - each journal publishes somewhere between 6 and 12 times a year.  Each journal edition will have about a dozen or so articles to look over.  I will read over all of these and summarize their content in the shortest and most readable way possible. Post summaries on public blog - it seems to me that academics primarily write articles 'explaining...