Call Institute of Economics; IEB), PhD Scholarships

• Call for Applications:
  Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), 2 PhD Scholarships

The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) is accepting applications for2 PhD scholarships for 3 years, for classes starting September 2013. The yearly amount of the stipend is 15.000€. The scholarships are funded by the Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) and the University of Barcelona (UB).

We are looking for students who have graduated after 2009 and who aim at enrolling on thePhD programin Economics(University of Barcelona). The candidates must have a Master in Economics completedby summer 2013 and fulfill the admission requirements of the PhD program in Economics, University of Barcelona (http://(Usted puede enviar una solicitud o contactar con nosotros por email usando el Buzón de Solicitud online de abajo) ). A very good academic record and good English are also required for the position.

The successful candidates will develop their research under the supervision of IEB researchers belongingto the Research Programs “Fiscal Federalism”, “Cities and Innovation” and “Infrastructure and Transport”( ). We expect candidates to be interested in the research topics covered by theseprograms:
Fiscal Federalism, Political Economy, Economics of Taxation, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Economics of Innovation, Economics of Infrastructures and Transport Economics. Successful candidates will have teaching duties in applied economics at either undergraduate or graduate level withinthe department of Public Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Business (UB).

Only complete applications will be considered. Candidates must provide the following attachments:
1. Academic transcript
2. Statement of purpose
3. Curriculum vitae
4. 2 letters of reference

Applications should be submitted to the following addressbefore May 30th(at the latest) to ieb.calls indicating in the title of the message‘Application to PhD Scholarship’. You will be informed of the committee’s decision by the end of the second week of June.

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