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Postgraduate programs and scholarships

This section collects all the information I acquire on postgraduate programs such as Phd and master programs, grad schools, grants and scholarships, seminars series and so on.

As all the other sections of this web site, this page is an incidental outcome of my personal research activity: of course it cannot be exhaustive. Thus I invite all researchers involved in the organisation of conferences and other initiatives related to social capital to keep me aknowledged about these activities. I will be glad to contribute in giving them further publicity through these web pages.

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June 30, 2009

Franco Modigliani Research Fellowships in Economics and Finance

The Associazione Borsisti Marco Fanno awards a Research Fellowship in
Economics and Finance dedicated to the memory of Franco Modigliani
and aimed to young researchers based in non-Italian institutions who wish
to work in an Italian university. The competition for the award will be
based on the candidates’ curriculum, papers and publications.

Please follow the link for full details.

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June 30, 2009

4 year PhD Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Scholarship at the University of Glasgow

PASCAL, Department of Adult and Continuing Education within the Faculty
of Education and the Department of Urban Studies at the University of
Glasgow are offering a full Kelvin Smith scholarship for a 4 year PhD to
start in September 2009.

The deadline for applications is Friday 14th August. Interviews for candidates being considered for the award will take place on 24th August. The scholarship will commence on 22nd September 2009.

Please follow the link for details.

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May, 26, 2009

PhD Program in Economics at the University of Siena

Graduate Program in Economics at the University of Siena.
The University of Siena invites applications for the Graduate Program in Economics. Deadline: June 22, 2009
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March 26, 2009

Summer school Monitoring and evaluation of international programmes and public policies

A summer school organized by CID – Centre for International Development and the University of Bologna. 8-13 June 2009.

Follow the link for full details.

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March 20, 2009

Summer schools

• Amid Summer School: An Introduction to Field Surveys in LCDs, in Nerud, Belgium, 15-18 June 2009.

• Summer school on Psychological Economics and Economic Psychology, in Trento, Italy, 22 June - 2 July 2009.

Fellowships

•  Research Fellow at the InterAmerican Development Bank, United States.

• PhD student position in International Agricultural Economics/ Rural Development in Gottingen, Germany.

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February 12, 2009

Summer school "The future of social enterprise: Models and experiences"

The University of Bologna, Faculty of Economics, Forlì Campus (offering an Undergraduate Degree in Social Economy and a "Laurea Magistrale", Graduate Degree, in Economics and Management of Cooperative Firms and Non-profit Organizations) joint with AICCON, is pleased to announce the European Summer School on Social Economy (ESSE), whose first edition will take place at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro.

Please follow the link for full details.

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January 27, 2009

Scholarships and grants

• PhD Students in Energy/Environmental Economics at the wiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland).

• Doctoral Fellowships at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

• Post-Doctoral Scholarships at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

• PhD Scholarships at the Cologne Graduate School of Management

• PhD Student at the Universität Osnabrück

• Doctoral stipends in economics at the WZB Berlin

• College Lectureship and Fellowship in Economics at the St. Catharine's College, Cambridge

• PhD programme and scholarships at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (Norway)

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December 22, 2008

Scholarships and grants

• PhD Scholarship at the University of Verona

• Assistant (PhD student) in Economics at the Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)

• PhD Scholarship at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)

• PhD Student in Empirical Economics at the University of Granada

•  PhD position in Neuroeconomics at the Universität Heidelberg (Germany)

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November 3, 2008

Research Fellow in Trade Policy at the Overseas Development Institute

The UK’s leading think tank on international development and humanitarian issues

Research Fellow – Trade Policy International Economic Development Group (IEDG) Contract: Full-time Salary: £44,074 - £54,206 per annum (market supplement may be applicable for exceptional candidates) Ref: IEDG/03/08

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November 3, 2008

Internship at the European Central Bank

Function: The Directorate Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) is seeking applications from recent graduates (or students who are close to completing their studies) for internships in its Monetary Policy Strategy Division. Application has to be received by 31. January 2009.
Please follow the link for further details.

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November 3, 2008

International Master in Development, Innovation and Change (MiDIC) organized by the University of Bologna

MiDIC is an international, interdisciplinary, 1 year Master program providing education and training in local development and innovation issues. 1st term: core courses in Bologna. 2nd term: area studies and elective courses, in Bologna or Durban , S.A. (University of KwaZulu-Natal) or Buenos Aires,
Argentina (FLACSO), partners in GSP -Global Studies Program (University of Freiburg - D). Internship.
Please follow the link for further details.

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September 15, 2008

Ph.D in Economics and Industrial Organization, University of Bergamo (Italy)

Application are invited for the PhD program in Economics and Industrial Organization (academic year 2008/2009) at the Department of Economics "Hyman P. Minsky".
The PhD in "Economics and Industrial Organization" (Dottorato di Ricerca in "Economia ed Organizzazione Industriale) is an advanced program whose objective is to train professional researchers in Economics, with possible career paths both in the academic  field and in public or private firms and organizations.
The program is articulated on three years. In the first year students are asked to take the following courses: Mathematics for Economists, Probability and Statistics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Advanced Econometrics, Industrial Economics and Economics of Innovation, Labour Economics and Economics or Organization, Theories of the Firm, Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics. All courses ar taught in English.
Admission to the second year is conditional on passing final examinations and on approval of the dissertation project by the Board. A period of no less than 6 months of supervised work at a foreign research institution is compulsory during the second year.

Applicants should hold a five-year or four-year degree issued by an Italian University (or an equivalent non-Italian degree). Degrees in Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering and Political Science are among the most appropriate for this Program.  The admittance examination consists of an evaluation of the candidate's qualifications, and of an oral test, together with an assessment of the candidate's knowledge of English.
Applications have to be received by September 29, 2008. The interviews for selected applicants will take place on November 12th at 12pm. Non Italian candidates can be interviewed by telephone or videoconference.
The candidates will receive communication of the admittance to oral test through an official letter and/or e-mail.

For the academic year 2008-2009, four positions are available, two of which are covered by a three years scholarship. More detailed information on the admission procedures together with the official announcement (bando di concorso) and documents are available on the internet website of the University of Bergamo at the addresses:
http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=dottoratibg_bandimoduli
http://www.unibg.it/struttura/struttura.asp?cerca=DOT-EOI
For further information, please contact the director of the PhD program: Prof. Annalisa Cristini (annalisa.cristini@unibg.it).

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September 15, 2008

PhD Program in Economics, Markets, and Institutions, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca (Tuscany) (Italy)

With its interdisciplinary (theoretical, quantitative and institutional) approach, the program aims at dealing with issues in political economy, applied public economics, and the functioning of industries and markets, the impact of macroeconomic impact on the functioning of markets, as well as on productivity and growth. A distinctive character of the PhD program is the strong integration of theoretical, technical and practical expertise, aimed to educate highly qualified professionals, who analyze, plan, and manage concrete interventions of political economy. Theoretical methodologies and models will therefore tested through the methodical/systematic investigation of actual cases. At the end of the program, students will be able to catch commonalities as well as distinctive characters of the several markets, in reference to economic laws, market regulations, contractual, managing and organizational solutions.

15 positions and scholarships: • 15 students: no tuition fees + free access to IMT Canteen; • 8 students: full grants (annual grant amounts +/- 13.638,00 Euros gross); • Up to 3 INPDAP additional grants; • 8 students: free accommodation; • 7 students (only for students without scholarship): Research Money. 1 full grant is co-financed by European Commission – European Social Fund, Ministero del Lavoro, della Salute e delle Politiche Sociali and Regione Toscana.

PhD Courses are held in English.

CLASSES START IN MARCH 2009

Applicants must fill out the online application form and attach the required documents as described on the website: http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php DEADLINE: December 5th, 2008

Undergraduate students can apply if they obtain their degree before December 24, 2008.

Further information can be found on the school’s website www.imtlucca.it or can be provided by the PhD Office: Phone: +39 0583 4339561; e-mail: phdapplications@imtlucca.it.

Application has to be received by 5. December 2008.

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September 11, 2008

Summer School on "Statistics, Knowledge and Policy: Understanding Societal Change"

It will be held on 16-19 September at the Scuola Superiore Santa Chiara, Siena, Italy. Further details and booking information can be found on the official summer school's website.

The organizers are the Faculty of Economics of the University of Siena and the OECD.

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September 1, 2008

Call for Application Phd Program in Economics, Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy)

This is to announce the Call for Application for the PhD Program in Economics of the Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan for the academic year 2008-09. For this program, up to six students are admitted, three of which will receive a scholarship.

To participate in the selection process, a candidate's application must be received by September 15.

For further information and to download the Call please visit the following web-site: http://www.unicatt.it/phdeconomics

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July 12, 2008

Summer school "Why isn't ethics a behavioural science?"

The summer school is organized by by Econometica (Centro interuniversitario per l’etica economica e la responsabilità sociale d’impresa), LaSER (Laboratory for Social Responsibility, Ethics and Rational Choice), and the University of Trento, Department of Economics, and will take place in Pergina Valsugana, Trento, Italy, 23-24 September 2008.

The idea behind the school is that our understanding of the role of social preferences in shaping social norms and institutions will be enhanced if we manage to integrate three sides of the current research. First, the theory of bounded rationality and learning in games. Second, the more sophisticated approach to people’s preferences pioneered by behavioural economists, which incorporates altruism and spitefulness, a taste for reciprocity, feelings of guilt and shame and other moral emotions.
Finally, the experimental research on the way in which flesh-and-bone individuals make their decisions in strategic situations.

Please follow the link for full details.

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July 1, 2008

PhD Course: Approaching Organisations

Organized by The Graduate School in International Development Studies at Roskilde University, the Danish Institute for International Studies, and the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.

From 2008-12-08 to 2008-12-10 at the Hotel Søfryd, Jyllinge, Denmark.

The Ph.D. course will deal with the analytical and methodological challenges faced in studying the nature and role of organizations in development. The course proposes to explore a broad range of organizations from the international level, such as the World Bank, to the national level, such as a government ministry or a large NGO, and down to the local levels of small NGOs, associations and local government departments and agencies. The course will combine lectures from leading international experts in the field of organizations in development, and workshops in which Ph.D. students attending the course present their research projects.

Please follow the link for further details.

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July 1, 2008

Summer School on Social Inequalities in Contemporary Societies: New Empirical Evidence and Methodological Innovation.

The summer school will take place in Trento, Italy, on 31 August - 6 September 2008.

Please follow the link to get the flyer.

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May 13, 2008

Summer School in Advanced Quantitative Methods: Applied Multivariate Data Analysis, Bootstrapping and Productivity/Efficiency Measurement

7-11 July, 2008

University of Pisa, School of Engineering
Via Diotisalvi 2, Pisa, Italy

Deadline for application: 15th of May 2008

The course presents the latest developments in parametric and nonparametric approaches.
Recent advances in these areas open new perspectives in fields of applications, including Science and Technology; Higher Education; Growth; Micro Economic Theory of Production; Operations Research;  Management Science; Regulated Industries and others.
The Summer School is intended for Ph.D. students, post-doc and junior faculty members. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own research ideas in a dynamic and open atmosphere. Enrolments will be limited to 25-30 fellows, all of whom will be in residence.

The application form should be submitted together with:

1.a detailed CV (certifyng the basic knowledge of: programming languages - such as Matlab and/or R, statistics and econometrics)

2. a reference letter motivating the application with respect to the research undertaken by candidates

3. (optional) a research proposal or abstract.

All the materials should be sent to:
daraio@dsea.unipi.it
and to
elena.rossi@ing.unipi.it.
Not later than 15 May 2008.

Admission decisions will be communicated by e-mail by 1st of June 2008.

For any other information write to daraio@dsea.unipi.it

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May 13, 2008

Dare Graduate School in Economic Governance, Development, and Public Policy at the Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland

The annual DARE Graduate School in Economic Governance, Development and Public Policy will be held at the Åbo Akademi University, Department of Economics and Statistics, Turku, Finland. It will take place from 15th - 21st September 2008. 

The School is co-ordinated and organised by DARE (Democratic Communities in Academic Research on Economic Development), a community of international faculty focused on enhancing theoretical and policy understanding around democratic economic development. 

School Content  

The School will start with analysis of theoretical foundations for industrial development policy that is rooted in a strategic choice approach to governance, economic organisation and development.  These foundations will then be explored in a series of applications focussed on strategic failure, enterprise governance in different types of firms and organisations, foreign direct investment, and experiences from Europe (in particular UK and the Nordic countries), Asia and Latin America.  Throughout the School the specific topics focussed upon will include:

• Economic development (of regions and nations) based on localities
• Networking within and across countries
• Multinationalism and transnationalism
• The role of smaller firms and of large firms, including transnational corporations and state enterprises
• Clustering of firms
• Economic (political and social) democracy in the determination of production strategy

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May 5. 2008

Summer School in Applied Economics (SEEC2008) " Programming in MATLAB"

The Summer School in “Applied Economics” will be held at the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods of the University of Lecce (Italy) from 28th July to 1st August 2008. The main aim of this 25 hours course is to provide an introduction to applied macroeconomics and macroeconometrics with MATLAB. The approach is problem based, i.e. students will be made familiar with the software using well-known examples from both economic theory and applied econometrics. In the morning sessions (9-12), we will discuss examples and required programming tools. In the afternoon computer sessions (14-16), students have the opportunity to consolidate the material from the morning lecture.
Please follow the link for further details.

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April 23, 2008

Full Ph.D scholarships at ICS

A full PhD scholarship is available at the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) of the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, and Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Next to Ph.D scholarships, the vacancies include  two postdoc projects. The first one is on ‘Quick Fixes versus Never-Ending Stories: Causes and Consequences of Variation in the Duration of Reorganization.'
The second postdoc project is on ‘Labour market inequalities between men and women in Europe’.

The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) is an institute for postgraduate studies under the scientific directorship of Siegwart Lindenberg and Rafael Wittek of the University of Gronin­gen, Henk Flap, Louk Hagendoorn, and Werner Raub of Utrecht University, and Wout Ultee of the University of Nijmegen. The ICS offers a postgraduate program for a small selection of excellent graduates in one of the social sciences (including economics, history, mathematics or computer sciences). The structured program consists of training in advanced theory construction and research methods by means of courses, tutorials and individual study. Supervision and monitoring are intense: each Ph.D student is supported by a personal supervision team meeting on a regular basis. At the end of four years our Ph.D students will have finished his or her dissertation, ready to enter the growing market for highly trained researchers in the social sciences.

The salary amounts to approximately 2000 euros before taxes in the 1st year of appointment, raising to 2558 before taxes in the 4th year. Also, there are not tuition fees.

Please follow the link for further details.

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April 21, 2008

University of Verona, CEPR and BREAD - Alba di Canazei, Italy
Summer School on Development Economics

The Summer School is intended for PhD students. A limited number of places is reserved to junior faculty members who have completed their PhD within the last two years.

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their own research ideas with leading researchers in the field and enjoy a relaxed and open atmosphere.

Enrollment will be limited to 30 participants. Selected proposals by PhD students will be presented during the evening sessions. We encourage PhD students to submit either a draft paper or an abstract describing the work-in-progress they may present. Attendants will benefit from the overall discussion.

If invited to attend the summer school, a €500 fee is payable (either by bank transfer or by credit card) to cover your participation costs. This fee includes 6 nights of accomodation and all dinners during the days of the school. Travel costs should be covered individually. Students from developing countries are offered a reduction to their participation fee. All participants are asked to stay for the entire duration of the summer school.

Please follow the link to learn more on the application procedure.

Submission deadline: April 30, 2008

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April 21, 2008

University of the Basque Country and Urrutia Elejalde Foundation - San Sebastian, Spain
Summer School on Economics and Philosophy "Social Norms"

Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde has annually organized a Summer School on frontier topics between philosophy, economics and other social sciences, bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The aim of this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vast research that is taking place in the area of social norms. From philosophy and psychology to evolutionary game theory and experimental economics, recent work on social norms is shedding light on why and under what circumstances people engage in pro-social behavior, and how norms may emerge, stabilize or decay.

Please follow the link to check the summer school's official web site and learn further details on the application procedure.

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April 21, 2008

University of Bologna - Bologna, Italy
PhD Program in Economics

The PhD Program offered by the Department of Economics at the University of
Bologna (DSE). This program aims at training students for a career as economists in academic institutions or in research departments of corporations, public organizations, financial institutions and the government.

The program has a standard organization and is taught in English. In the first year students are asked to take six courses in quantitative methods, mcroeconomics and macroeconomics. By the end of the first year they will also have to choose a field of specialization and a research supervisor.
In the second year, students will choose six more advanced courses consistent with their field of specialization. The rest of  the program is devoted to work on the dissertation. To this aim students will be asked to present their papers in the monthly PhD informal meetings and in the more formal second and third  year PhD forums.

The considerable diversification of research areas covered by the members of the DSE and their international reputation provide an outstanding environment where students of most fields in economics may find research ideas and tight guidance for their doctoral studies.

The department of Economics of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is a partner institution in the PhD Program.

More information is available at
http://www.phdeco.unibo.it
Any further question may be addressed to laura.morigi@unibo.it or andrea.ichino@unibo.it

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April 21, 2008

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Pisa, Italy
International Doctoral Program in Economics

The International Doctoral Program in Economics is a three-year program designed for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to acquire the research and analytical skills of the international scientific community in economics. It is designed for students seeking jobs in academia as well as those who wish to acquire the skills of the professional academic research to work in government agencies, financial institutions, international agencies, private companies. Students will be offered one year and a half of intensive course work by an international faculty composed of both permanent staff of the School  and a large group of Visiting Scholars and will then proceed to supervised research work, yielding an original dissertation to be discussed  in a final, public examination. It is expected that students will produce articles publishable in international journals The Program, jointly sponsored by University of Strasbourg, is part of a European network - involving the University of Sussex, Aalborg, Manchester, Paris XIII, Oslo and several others - supporting inter-European exchanges of research students and faculty, within the European/Network of Excellence/DIME (www.dime-eu.org)

Four positions with four fellowships (amounting to EUR 12.500 per year + free meals at school's canteen + Campus facilities) are offered. The School reserves the possibility of accepting up to a maximum of two further students without grant or other forms of financial support.
Detail on courses and faculty, and on-line application can be found at www.sssup.it/idpe.

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