Hi, first of all thanks for reading this. I am a professional and have been working for a few years in consulting firms/insurance companies and thinking to take a break to eventually start a PhD.
My background is a master's degree in Economics (mainly focused on financial mathematics btw), I work as a quant but I do feel that I would like to have a deeper understanding of things I do everyday at work, also basically I would also be interested in an academic careeer even more than a standard a career.
As I really have a passion for most topics related to macroeconomics/econometrics/financial mathematics in general (e.g. diff equations), is there some place where I can check which are the most important topics for research nowadays? or do you have some topics to suggest? to be honest I would prefer to avoid this and find a topic I really "feel" myself, but the lack of time due to work duties obviously does not allow me to do that.
Any advice of any kind is appreciated. Thanks!