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The Sant'Anna Doctoral Program in Economics is a 4-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 primarily intended for students willing to pursue an academic career but also provides professional research skills to work in public and private research institutions.
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa (Italy) has just launched an additional call for applications for its Ph.D. in Economics.
Here is the link to the call:
https://www.santannapisa.it/it/training/call-additional-scholarship-pnrr-phd-economics-2024-2025
A full 4-years scholarship with a focus on climate change economics and sustainability is available!
The deadline for applications is July 11th, 2024, at 12:00 (CEST).
The starting date of the program is October 1st, 2024.
You can get more information about this position at the following link.
-Students will attend one year and a half of intensive course work, followed by supervised research, yielding to an original dissertation complying with publication standards of international scientific journals.
The training covers most traditional domains of economic analysis (micro, macro, growth, econometrics), and offers the unique opportunity to study and get involved in research fields often neglected in PhD Courses. Such Advanced and Field topics encompass evolutionary perspectives on economic change, firm-industry dynamics, economics of innovation, agent-based computational economics, economic networks and complexity, economic history and history of economic thought, and a broad range of quantitative tools for the study of big-data and economic dynamics.
Areas of study and research facilities
The training covers traditional domains of economic analysis (micro, macro, econometrics) but also offers the unique opportunity to study and get involved in research fields often neglected in standard PhD Courses. In line with the core research interests and expertise of the Institute of Economics at Sant’Anna and associate institutions, Advanced and Field topics encompass: evolutionary perspectives on economic change, firm-industry dynamics, economics of innovation, agent-based computational economics, economic networks and complexity, economic history and history of economic thought, and a broad range of quantitative tools for the analysis of big-data and economic dynamics.
PhD students have access to research facilities (software, hardware, data) available via the Scuola library, the Institute of Economics, and the computational infrascture of the Department of Excellence EMBEDS.
Job Opportunities
The Programme is primarily intended for students willing to pursue an academic career but also provides professional research skills to work in public and private research institutions. Former PhD candidates now work as postdoctoral research fellows, assistant professors, etc. in well-reputed Italian and international universities (e.g., Paris-Sorbonne, Utrecht University, University of York, New School New York, Cornell University, University of Bielefeld, Sciences Po, University of Strasbourg), research institutions (e.g., UN-ECLAC, ECB, Bank of Italy, STATEC-Luxembourg, OECD-Paris, JRC-Seville, Italian Ministry of Economic and Finance), and in the private sector (e.g., UBS).
Deadline: July 11, 2024, at 12.00 p.m. (Italian time)
Publication of shortlisted candidates invited to the interview: May 31, 2024
Positions and grants
At least 4 scholarships, for 4 years, of which:
- 3 positions funded by Scuola Sant'Anna
- 1 position funded under L'EMbeDS Project
Further positions may be made available before the start of the program, depending on external funding.
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