Institutions Trade & Economic Development
Application Deadline: Jul 30, 2017 The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) seeks a qualified candidate to serve as Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time) in Environmental Economics on a three year project in its research area “The Environment and Natural Resources”. Research activities in the research area focus on the allocation of environmental and natural resources. The […]
The chair of Macroeconomics: Innovation and Policy is recruiting a new Ph.D. student. The research project in mathematical game theory involves the study of new voting and election rules. Our chair is part of the Center of Economic Research, which belongs to the Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC) at ETH Zurich. Our main focus […]
Irstea (National Research Institute in Science and Technology for Agriculture and the Environment) is seeking a senior researcher in economics to play a leading role in academic and applied research developed in UMR (Research Unit) Territoires which comes from joining CERAMAC (: http://ceramac.univ-bpclermont.fr/) and UMR Métafort (http://www.metafort.fr/) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Research interest and expertise include regional […]
Date and Location 15 – 17 March, 2018 University of Münster, Germany Keynote Speakers Timur Kuran, Duke University Uwe Sunde, LMU Munich Conference Description The conference addresses the origin and prospects of democracy and dictatorship, policy control and governance structures in comparative political systems and transition processes from dictatorship to democracy and vice […]
The 8th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics (BCDE8) will take place in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on Thursday October 26 and Friday October 27, 2017. The conference is jointly organized by the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Society of Bolivian Economists (SEBOL), Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB), and the Bolivian Academy of Economic Science (ABCE). The conference […]
Fair Trade is a social initiative that attempts to aid small producers and workers in developing countries, by offering them better terms of trade and helping them to organize, both economically and politically. It works through a certification system overseen by nongovernmental organizations, such as Fairtrade International. A certified product signals to consumers that producers were […]
The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page Bernard, Andrew B. and Swati Dhingra (2016) “Importers, Exporters and the Division of the Gains from Trade“ Beshkar, Mostafa and Ahmad Lashkaripour (2017) “Interdependence of Trade Policies in General Equilibrium“ Fan, Haichao, Yao Amber Li and Stephen R. Yeaple (2016) “On the Relationship Between Quality and Productivity: […]
“Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As Richard Baldwin explains, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. In […]
We would like to welcome the following new members of the InsTED network: Prof Michiel Gerritse (University of Groningen) His research interest is international economics broadly in trade, finance, geography, macroeconomics and development. Prof Gianmarco Ottaviano (London School of Economics and Political Science) His research interests are international trade, multinationals, economic integration, immigration and economic geography.
The School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh is looking for outstanding candidates to take up fully funded PhD opportunities. We offer supervision on a wide range of topics, with particular strengths in: Economic Theory (contract theory, game theory, micro and macro) Labour Economics (micro and macro) Applied Econometrics (micro, macro, health and education) […]