PhD scholarships in Economics and Business: Universiteit van Amsterdam

This will be a PhD position within the VICI project on ‘License Auctions’. In the last decade, governments around the world have started to employ auctions to assign licences for scarce market positions. License auctions differ fundamentally from auctions for normal goods (art, flowers, houses, etc.) in that they can have a profound effect on the organization of the market for which the licenses are sold. The project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The PhD student will be based at the UvA (Prof. Theo Offerman and Dr Sander Onderstal) and will have the opportunity to visit Caltech (Prof. Jacob Goeree).

Tasks
The PhD student will use game theoretic tools to investigate various aspects of license auctions, that is, their revenue and efficiency properties as well as how they affect industry structure. He or she will also compare, by means of laboratory experiments, the performance of different license auctions.

Requirements
• MSc (or equivalent) in Economics or a related field • strong background in game theory • background in auction theory • experience with experimental economics and statistical packages • proficiency in both written and spoken English.

More information
For further information, contact Prof. T.J.S.Offerman, e-mail t.j.s.offerman@uva.nl or Dr S. Onderstal, e-mail: s.onderstal@uva.nl. For more information about the Amsterdam School of Economics, visit www.ase.uva.nl.

Appointment
The PhD student will be appointed in the Department of Economics. The position will initially be for twelve months, to be extended to a maximum of four years (in total). The gross monthly salary will be € 1,933 in the first year, increasing to € 2,472 in the fourth year. There will also be an 8% holiday allowance.

Benefits include a good research environment, a lively research-oriented collegial atmosphere and good facilities (computing equipment, software, conference funding, etc.). The UvA is located in the centre of Amsterdam.

Job application
Candidates are requested to submit an application letter explaining their interest in and suitability for the position, a CV, two letters of recommendation from academic referees, and copies of university exam certificates and other relevant documents. Applications should emailed to: applications-feb@uva.nl. Please include the job reference code (06-5020).

Starting date: 1 September 2006 or a mutually agreeable later date. Deadline for applications: 28 June 2006

source of info: http://www.english.uva.nl/vacancies/object.cfm/objectid=E8FDDD18-7BDE-4CD8-B5A4D4710963E12B

Various Scholarships at The University of Bath-UK

The University of Bath is aware that many international students find the costs of studying in the UK difficult to meet, and that many students would not be able to consider studying here unless they were able to obtain some financial assistance. It is essential that you do not underestimate the amount of money you will need to live and study in the UK. In addition to tuition fees, you will need to find money for living expenses including accommodation, food and drink, travel, materials and entertainment.

It is essential that students thinking about coming to the UK for their education thoroughly explore all the funding options while still in their home country. The first point of contact for information should be be from your own government (Ministry of Education or Education department) and your local British Council office. Other useful resources are the Financial Support for Postgraduate Study pages our Postgraduate Prospectus and the Prospects Web, as part of its section on postgraduate study in the UK for international students

It is important that you remember that it is the responsibility of the individual student to identify and obtain a suitable source of funding.

University of Bath Scholarships

The International Office administers a £200,000 scholarship scheme for Undergraduate and Taught Masters students, details of which appear below.

The University also has a significant Research Degree (MPhil/PhD) scholarship fund and a brief summary also follows. In all cases scholarships are awarded on the basis of academic merit and competition is intense. The purpose of our scholarships programmes is to recognise excellence in our students and to that end all international students receive automatic consideration for whatever funding may be available.

Undergraduate Scholarships

We are delighted to announce the launch of the University of Bath International Scholarships programme for 2006 entrants. 50 scholarships each to the value of £3000 will be awarded to students who pay fees at the overseas rate. These awards are merit based and all international students who apply to the University receive automatic consideration. There is no need to make a separate scholarship application. Candidates are considered on the basis of the information provided in their UCAS application and the scholarships will be allocated in recognition of academic excellence - namely the grades achieved in examinations prior to entering the University of Bath. Students selected for a scholarship will be notified in May 2006.

In some instances the scholarships may be awarded on a conditional basis, in which case final confirmation of the scholarship will depend upon achieving a certain level of performance in high school or other examinations being undertaken prior to enrolling at the University of Bath. The £3000 payment will be credited towards tuition fees. Scholarship recipients will be presented with a certificate at an awards ceremony when they commence their studies at the University.

Some academic departments also offer scholarships for international students and they will advise applicants directly of what provision they have on offer.

Masters Scholarships

The University of Bath International Scholarships programme includes 25 Masters scholarships each to the values of £2000. All students who pay fees at the overseas rate and will study on a full-time basis are eligible for consideration. There is no need to make a separate application. Candidates are considered on the basis of the information provided in their application for postgraduate study and the scholarships will be allocated on the basis of academic excellence - namely the grades achieved in examinations prior to entering the University of Bath. In some instances the scholarships may be awarded on a conditional basis, in which case final confirmation of the scholarship will depend upon achieving a certain level of performance in examinations being undertaken prior to enrolling at the University of Bath.

Students selected for a scholarship will be notified in July 2006. The £2000 payment will be credited towards tuition fees. Scholarship recipients will be presented with a certificate at an awards ceremony when they commence their studies at the University.

A number of external funding bodies exist to support Masters level study in the UK and any applicant seeking support is also strongly advised to explore potential sources of financial aid available in their own country. In many cases the British Council will have a number of awards on offer through the Chevening scheme and further details my be obtained from the British Council in your country (http://www.britishcouncil.org/ecs/contact/countries.htm).

Alternatively, there are international agencies, government departments, charitable organisations and private companies that may be able to provide financial aid for certain programmes of study and all are worth exploring.

Research Scholarships

The University of Bath is a research-led institution and in recognition of this a variety of sources of funding are available to PhD students. The important advice is firstly to apply for the research project that you are interested in (scholarship consideration invariably follows on from receiving a formal offer of admission) and, secondly, apply well in advance of the academic year in which you intend to commence your studies (many scholarships are allocated by April each year). The University has 9 fully funded PhD studentships, most of which combine our financial support with monies from the Overseas Research Student (ORS) scheme. These awards cover both tuition fees and living expenses. A significant number or partial awards and scholarships that come to the University through external sources are also available and in some circumstances scholarships may be combined to increase their value. Certain scholarships may be subject or project specific. To maximise the chances of success we always advise applicants to explore as many potential sources of financial aid as possible, including funding agencies in their own country.

For more details on the ORS scheme at the U
niversity of Bath, please see the Graduate Office website

Environmental Research and Education Foundation PhD Scholarships -USA

Qualifications:

Applications will be considered from those who:

• Will be this year or are now a full-time Ph.D. student or post-doctoral researcher
• Have a clearly demonstrated interest in waste management research.

Awards are based on:

• Academic or professional performance;
• Relevance of one`s work to the advancement of waste management science;
• Potential for success.

Amounts awarded take into account the cost of tuition at the recipient`s institution and any other funds received. Full scholarships cannot be awarded to students who will be receiving full-tuition scholarships from other sources (excluding direct university assistance such as tuition remission and/or income received from assistantships), although such students may still be considered for partial awards.


Scholarship Range:

Scholarships are given each year in the amount of up to $12,000 each, paid monthly, and renewable for two additional years for a potential total of $36,000. Progress must be certified annually by the student`s academic advisor.


Application Procedure:

Applicants should request an application packet or download the pdf application below. Upon receipt of the completed packet, the foundation`s scholarship review committee will review the applications and, following their recommendation, scholarships are awarded by the Board of Directors.


Scholarship application deadline:

July 1 of each year - all materials to reach EREF by this date.

All submissions must be in English.

Scholarship Application (pdf -- 71k)

This application can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat reader. Pdf files can be viewed with Netscape 3.0 or higher and Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher. If you need further help or have questions about pdf files, how to view or print them, please see Adobe.

All Qualified men and women will be considered for Fiessinger Scholarships without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, or disability. Applicants from students outside the United States or studying abroad will receive equal consideration. Award decisions by the Environmental Research and Education Foundation and its Directors are final and not subject to appeal.


Contact:

Michael J. Cagney,
President and CEO, EREF
901 N. Pitt Street, Suite 270,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Phone: 703-299-5139;
Fax: 703-299-5145;
Email: jcagney@erefdn.org


Further Information:

For further details about this program please go to:
http://www.erefdn.org/scholar.html

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship/Scholarships Program for the 2007/2008

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship is an annual, worldwide competitive program.

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program for the 2007/2008 academic year will be open for nominations starting approximately September 19 through October 31, 2006.


Intent

The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students in an array of focus areas of interest to IBM and fundamental to innovation, including:


Business value: services and software to improve business performance

• Business analytics: business optimization, risk analysis, legislative compliance and provenance, privacy and security
• Business transformation and services innovation: architecture of business and processes, performance management and transformation, value networks/ecosystems, and services sciences, management, and engineering (SSME)
• Information management and analysis: information lifecycle management, standards, storage/search/retrieval, sensor/actuator/speech/video/text services, text/media analytics for business intelligence, information based medicine

Infrastructure value: hardware, software and services integrated into an open computing environment

• Deep computing: bio-informatics, distributed algorithms, visual analysis, stochastic analysis
• Computing infrastructure:Computing infrastructure: BlueGene on demand, special clusters, new computing architectures, autonomic computing, grid computing, streaming data
• Pervasive Computing:Pervasive Computing: integration of sensor and actuators, embedded computing, RFID applications, medical and telematics applications with IT

Exploratory Computing Technology:

Power management, nano, computer-on-a-chip technology, new device structures.
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports our long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. IBM values diversity in the workplace and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to that diversity.

Scope

IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded worldwide. IBM Ph.D. Fellows are awarded tuition, fees, and a stipend of $17,500 (US) for one academic year. All IBM Ph.D. Fellows are matched with an IBM Mentor according to their technical interests, and they are encouraged to intern at an IBM research or development laboratory under their Mentor`s guidance. An IBM ThinkPad is awarded during the internship. Internship assignments are designed to strengthen and broaden the Awardee`s technical experience and contacts. Interns are paid by their host site and will be subject to the prevailing terms and conditions of the internship program at that site. IBM is an equal opportunity employer.

IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded annually but may compete annually to be renewed for up to three years, based on the Award Recipient`s continued exceptional academic standing, progress and achievement, and sustained interaction with IBM`s technical community. All Award Recipient`s wishing for an award renewal must be renominated to compete for an award renewal. IBM requests that a maximum of two nominations per department be submitted in addition to any renewal nominations.

Eligibility

Students must be nominated by a faculty member. They must be enrolled full-time in a college or university Ph.D. program, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination. Award Recipients will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their academic progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head.

For further information, see Frequently Asked Questions or contact phdfellow@us.ibm.com.

Posdoctoral position in Econometrics - Sweden

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (FORSKARE/POSTDOC) in Econometrics - BEHAVIOURAL AND ECONOMETRIC RESEARCH IN SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT

A post doctoral position in Econometrics related to Sustainable Investment at the Centre for Finance, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University is announced. The position is funded by the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, MISTRA through the Swedish research programme ‘Behavioural Impediments to Sustainable Investment’.


The scientist will be fully integrated into both the department and MISTRA’S SUSTAINABLE INVESTMENT RESEARCH INITIATIVE called ‘Towards a New Role for Institutional Investors’.

The Centre for Finance (www.handels.gu.se/cff) is a joint effort of the Department of Economics and the Department of Business Administration to concentrate their resources within the field of finance (resulting in a staff of 34 including 5 professors and 6 graduate students working on various projects related to quantitative aspects of finance). The research agenda of the Centre that directly relates to the MISTRA initiative focuses on the non-stationary, non-parametric study of financial time series and on non-parametric, adaptive methods for dimension reduction.

The Research Initiative ‘Towards a New Role for Institutional Investors’ aims to acquire knowledge that can encourage leading institutional investors to adopt sustainable investment (SI) practices. SI is defined as the promotion of sustainable development (SD) by integrating environmental and social concerns into investment policies at institutional level. The key tenet of SI is a long-term perspective on investment motivated by a real concern for the well being of future generations, fostering a responsible management of the natural (responsibility towards the environment) and human resources (social responsibility).

The Research Programme ‘Behavioural Impediments to Sustainable Investment’ focuses in particular on the integration of SI approaches into institutional investor’s portfolio management practices. As such, the SI approaches are expected to have a noticeable impact on the business strategies of companies promoting SD. The programme provides an opportunity for researchers at junior level in the social sciences to pursue their research interests and to develop expertise in new areas in the fields of psychology, economics and statistics with a particular emphasis on the areas of institutional investor portfolio management and SI investment practices.

The programme is structured in five projects that are briefly described in the sequel.

Project A will critically examine how SI is defined in the academic literature and across the investment community in order to develop an operational definition of SI.

Project B focuses on studying the quantitative multivariate relation between SI criteria and various financial measures of business performance with the end of identifying the social, environmental, and ethical aspects (or combination of aspects) that influence most of the financial performance of individual companies. The project will investigate the relation between financial profitability and SD features of individual companies and will try to understand if the existing SRI funds are the correct SI investment instrument.

Project C project focuses on determining the internal and external factors that impel and impede the implementation of SI in the investment management process.

Project D aims at studying mechanisms of dissemination of the SI practices.

Project E is aimed at proposing regulatory guidelines for the adoption and implementation of a SI policy.

QUALIFICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT GROUNDS FOR APPOINTMENT

The applicants must have a PhD in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related fields.

A strong record of academic achievements and research (demonstrated by the candidate’s thesis and/or publications) is expected. She/he should poses strong quantitative skills and a proven research interest in aspects of probabilistic and statistical modeling of financial data. Familiarity with non-parametric and multivariate statistical techniques as well as with the theory and practice of time series are desirable.

A high level of independence in conducting research is required, as the successful candidate will be partly responsible for managing the research efforts specific to the project B of the programme.

Priority will be given to candidates who have completed their degree no more than five years before the application deadline.

A good command of English is essential. Good communications skills are expected, as the successful candidate will work in close contact with various financial institutions and the other researchers in the program.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The postdoctoral researcher will be employed on a fixed-term contract for project period (2006-2008) and will be active in the Centre for Finance, at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University for the full duration of this position.

The postdoctoral researcher main duty will be to conduct research in the area of the research project B of the programme (see Project Description above).

The postdoctoral researcher will also play an active role in the programme as a whole. She/he is expected to interact with other researchers within various projects towards the successful completion of the programme and to participate in organizing of scientific events related to the communication plan of the programme. She/he is expected to contribute actively to the dissemination of the research results of the programme.

The postdoctoral researcher is also expected to participate in department activities such as the supervision of undergraduate/graduate theses within her/his research area, seminars, conferences, etc. She/he is also expected to teach a limited number of hours in subjects related to the academic activities of the Centre.

The position offers also the possibility for close academic collaboration with the Department of Mathematical Statistics at Chalmers University of Technology.

SALARY AND BENEFITS: Successful applicant will receive salary and benefits in accordance with standard salary levels for equivalent positions that take qualifications into account.

HOW TO APPLY: Each applicant should send ONE (paper) copy of the following to the address below (make sure to include the reference number!) (1) Transcripts of certificates of graduate university courses. (2) A CV including biographical information, degrees, work experiences, list of publications, and list of honours, awards, scholarships, awarded research grants, and fellowships. (3) The doctoral dissertation and a maximum of 10 published articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, or book chapters. (4) A short statement (1-2 pages) describing the applicant’s interest in the research area and the work that he or she would like to do during the appointment. (This statement is not a commitment to conduct the outlined work, but is important evidence of the applicant’s ability to plan an appropriate scientific project). (5) Three reference letters to be sent directly to the address indicated below. The candidate should arrange for the letters to be posted by the application’s deadline. The names and addresses (including e-mail and FAX) of three referees should be included in the CV.

In addition the documents (1) to (4) should be sent electronically to the address: cff@handels.gu.se (if an electronic version of document (1) is not available, a legible digital picture or a scanned copy should be provided with the original paper version sent by normal mail to the address below).

Applications should be received no later than May 26, 2006 (the paper documents should bear the post cache with a date previous or coi
ncident with the deadline. The electronic documents should be sent before 23:59, May 26). The position will begin August 15, 2006. The appointment will be announced as soon as possible after the deadline on the webpage of the Centre for Finance.

For further information write to Catalin Starica at catalin.starica@cff.gu.se

Union representatives:

SACO Inger Wilgotson Lundh,
tel. 031-773 19 87,
OFR/S Eva Sjögren,
tel. 031-773 11 69,
SEKO Lennart Olsson,
tel. 031-773 11 73.
The application, reference number E 36 1300/06 should be addressed to:

Goteborg University Registrator Box 100 SE-405 30 Goteborg