The Department of Economics of Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy (www.unibocconi.eu) invites applications for tenure-track positions at the junior faculty level in ANY FIELD of Economics. The appointment will start in September 2017.
Candidates will be interviewed at the 2017 ASSA meetings in Chicago and may subsequently be invited to give a job talk at Bocconi.
Contracts will run for up to eight years (with one paid sabbatical year and subject to renewal after the first three years). There is the possibility of promotion to a tenured position by the end of that period or before.
Knowledge of Italian is not required. Responsibilities include teaching and, most importantly, productivity in research. Applicants should have – or be close to completing – a Ph.D. and will have demonstrated strong potential in research and teaching.
Compensation and teaching load will be competitive with other top European academic institutions.
Application must be submitted online at: www.unibocconi.eu/jobmarket
Letters of reference should be uploaded on the EconJobMarket website https://econjobmarket.org/
Applications should be received by December 1, 2016.

The Economics Department at the University of Munich (LMU) invites applications for several Assistant Professorships (non tenure-track) in all fields.

Applicants are expected to show outstanding commitment to research and must have obtained a PhD when taking up the position.

The positions carry a limited teaching load of one course per semester. Teaching can be in English. The positions can be filled for one to six years.

Assistant professors are independent faculty members and have their own research budget. The department provides a vibrant environment for junior faculty, has strong international ties, and a widely recognized graduate school.

Applications should include a CV, three letters of recommendation and one recent research paper. The review of applications begins November 25, 2016 and the search continues until the positions are filled.

Members of the department will be available at the ASSA Meeting in Chicago to meet interested candidates.

Contact:

Applications must be submitted on-line via: https://econjobmarket.org/

Applications are welcome for a position as Assistant Professor in Development Economics in the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The position is for three years initially; if performance is satisfactory, the position may be extended by another three years. By the end of the six-year period, it is hoped that the holder of the position will be a suitable candidate for permanent employment (tenure) in the Department.

Applicants should hold a recent PhD in economics, or be close to finishing their thesis. The successful candidate is expected to carry out research suitable for publication in leading or highly ranked field and general economics journals. Research potential will be the key selection criterion for the advertised position.

Salary takes the form of a tax-exempt scholarship at a European competitive level.  Additional funds are available for travel and shorter visits to other departments. The Department will require involvement in a limited amount of teaching and supervision, the terms of which will be agreed later. It is desirable that the position is taken up by September 2017, but there is some flexibility.

The application should include a detailed CV with a list of publications/working papers, and one job market paper in electronic form. Additional material might be requested. Long-listed candidates will be interviewed at the ASSA meetings in Chicago 6-8 January 2017, or via a video link. Short-listed candidates will be invited to our department for interviews and research seminars after the ASSA meetings.

Applications should be sent no later than November 20^th, 2016 to: .

Referees should send their recommendation letters to no later than December 1^st. The subject line of the e-mail from the referee should state the name of the candidate. We would normally expect to receive letters from two or three referees, for each candidate.

The Department of Economics is located within the School of Business Administration, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg. The Department of Economics hosts a diverse and internationally renowned group of academic economists, including 14 full professors, 40 assistant and associate professors and post-docs, and 15 visiting professors. Core fields of research include behavioral & experimental economics, development economics, environmental economics, finance, health economics, labor economics, and applied & theoretical micro, including public and industrial economics. Smaller but growing fields include macroeconomics and econometrics. For more information about the Department of Economics, please refer to: http://www.economics.gu.se

The Department of Economics seeks diversity among applicants and promotes a diverse workforce.

We firmly decline all contact with staffing and recruitment agencies and job ad salespersons.

More information can be obtained from the Chair of the Recruitment Committee, Professor Ola Olsson, .

Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) is a joint research initiative of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Department For International Development (DFID). It offers a competitive research grants scheme for projects related to the behaviour of firms in Low-Income Countries (LICs) that aim to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in these countries.

Since the launch of the initiative in December 2011, 80 Exploratory Grants, 29 Major Grants and 41 Special Exploratory Grants have been awarded, ranging from business transformation in low-income countries to market incentives and efficiency.

An important criterion for funding of grant proposals is their relevance to policy in Low-Income Countries (LICs) and other eligible countries as defined by the PEDL programme. For more information on our grants, please see our Funding page.

PEDL will support approaches that promise to produce credible research results that will be useful for policy-making. It will promote research related to private enterprises of all sizes and will initially focus on four research themes:

• Modelling market frictions in LICs using newly available data
• Understanding how constraints interact using micro-founded macro models
• The dynamics of SMEs: Informality and entrepreneurship
• The role of export-oriented industries in driving growth

Proposals that address the following cross-cutting issues will be encouraged.

• Fragile and conflict affected states
• Gender
• Climate, environment and social compliance

Exploratory Grants are research grants of between £10,000 and £35,000 that are designed to allow researchers to:

• explore new approaches to the study of firms in low-income-countries (LICs); and
• to develop new (or build on) existing sources of data on firms in LICs.

One of PEDL’s objectives concerns building the community of scholars working on the above mentioned issues, so applications and proposals from Ph.D students are highly welcome. As a result, these grants can be extremely useful for talented Ph.D students planning to work in development or needing funds for their dissertation.

Grant set-up:

Exploratory Research Grant (ERG) projects will run for 12 months.

Please note that contracts will be signed 3 months after the application deadline, which is also the expected start date for the projects.

Contracts are generally signed with the researcher directly; we do not anticipate any institutional involvement.

For further information on ERGs, please consult the FAQs.

Criteria:

Please note that an important criteria for funding of proposals is the relevance to policy in Low-Income Countries and other eligible countries as defined by the PEDL Programme. See the list of LICs and here.

Please note that South Sudan is also an eligible LIC.

Deadlines:

The deadline for the 21st ERG round is 5pm GMT on October 31, 2016. Applications received after this time will be considered for the 22nd round of the ERGs.

Resources:

How to apply for an Exploratory Grant

Budget Guidelines

Application Templates:

• Proposal Template
• Budget Template