Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow Positions: Economics

NOTE: The Call closed on December 1, 2008

Call

IMT Institute for Advanced Studies invites candidates active in research areas such as Applied Economics, Applied Public Economics, International Economics, International Trade, Industrial Organization, and Political Economy to apply for Faculty Positions at the Assistant Professor and Post-Doctoral Fellow level. Preference will be given to candidates oriented towards applied research and with a high degree of proficiency in the use of mathematical and statistical methods.

Preference will be given to candidates who have completed or are near completion of their Ph.D. degree, or candidates with experience in formal instruction at the graduate-level.

Assistant Professors and Post-doctoral Fellows are appointed for a term of up to three years. Contracts may be renewed once for an additional 3 years (i.e. six year in total). Assistant Professors differ from Post-doctoral Fellows on the basis of experience, scientific curriculum and remuneration. The remuneration package is competitive at the international level and includes generous research funds. Additional benefits may be negotiated with selected applicants.

Successful candidates for either type of position will work closely with other young researchers, senior researchers and graduate students, and will have a limited teaching load in the school's graduate program (e.g. one class per year).

Application Procedure

Applicants are required to fill out the online application form and upload a complete curriculum vitae and 1 research paper (published or working paper) as PDF files. Please note that you are also required to upload a signed copy of your Identity Document.

Candidates are required to indicate if they intend to apply only for one of the two positions offered (Assistant Professor and Post-doctoral Fellow) or for both. Please note that if you apply for both positions you do not need to submit two applications.

In addition, at least two letters of reference must be sent as e-mail attachments (preferably in PDF format) to: researchers.opening@imtlucca.it or by mail to the following address:

Job Openings 2009 – YRF-EIC-Eco.
IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies
Piazza San Ponziano, 6
55100 Lucca – Italy

Application deadline was December 1, 2008.

Selection Procedure

• The Director appoints an Evaluation Committee;
• The Evaluating Committee analyses applications received on the basis of CVs, research papers and reference letters.
• Selected applicants will be interviewed at the ASSA meetings in San Francisco (3-5 January 2009) , or at the Royal Economic Society Ph.D. Presentation Meeting in London . For those who will not be able to participate to the above mentioned Job Market meetings, individual interviews may also be conducted by teleconference or at IMT.
• Short-listed candidates will be invited to make a job market presentation open to IMT faculty members and students between January and February 2009.

For questions, please contact: researchers.opening@imtlucca.it. Please cite the reference number of this call, Job Openings 2009 – YRF-EIC-Eco, in the e-mail subject

For more information on IMT's Young Research Fellow Program, please see the Young Research Fellow Program web page.

Foreign applicants may find information regarding working and living in Italy at Living in Lucca.

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The Job Market Seminars were organized on February 16 and 17