Computer Science and Engineering
The doctoral program aims at preparing researchers and professionals with a wide knowledge about the foundations of informatics and information engineering, and about their application to a variety of systems in many different domains. The program introduces new perspectives in formulating and solving technical challenges that are currently a target of very active research areas. The research activity focuses on key aspects of informatics and information engineering such as open end-ness, dynamics and control, autonomy, security, concurrency, cost-effectiveness, quality of services, dependability, optimization, and is concerned especially with the application to networked and large-scale systems with high degrees of interaction.

Economics,Markets, Institutions
The program aims at dealing with issues in political economy, applied public economics, the functioning of industries and markets, the impact of macroeconomics on productivity and growth.
A distinctive feature of the PhD program is the strong integration of theoretical, technical and pratical expertise, aimed to educate highly qualified professionals, who analyze, plan, and manage concrete interventions of political economy.
Theoretical methodologies and models are tested through the methodical/systematic investigation of real world cases. At the end of the program, students are able to identify commonalities as well as distinctive characters of economies, markets, and industries.

Management and Development of Cultural Heritage

Ph.D. in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino
The program aims at formalizing in a consistent multidisciplinary course, specific know-hows needed by researchers and professionals operating at the highest levels of management of culture and cultural heritage. The PhD program rests on three main educational pillars: historical/humanistic, economical/managerial, juridical, which are cut across by a technological area that focuses on IT applications commonly used for the valorization and fruition of cultural heritage.
the PhD program integrates the theoretical approach with the technical and pratical ones, in order to educate both highly qualified professional operating in the concrete field of cultural policy and researchers who will be active in the field of cultural heritage.

Institutions, Politics and Policies
Ph.D. in collaboration with Libera Università degli Studi Sociali “Guido Carli”

The PhD in Institutions, Politics and Policies is a multidisciplinary course analyzing political institutions, politics and policies from the point of view of history and political science, and to a lesser extent economics and law. It adopts a comparative perspective, and pays particular attention to processes of change over time. It aims at forming analysis able to: understand and, if possible, channel processes of transformation of politics and political institutions; plan and manage public policies, assessing their impact; confront their specific problems of countries in transition towards democracy and a market economy.
Duration: 3 years

Language: Courses and seminars are held in English. Foreign Ph.D. students are required to attend an Italian Language and Culture Course.

Classes begin in February 2012.

Deadline
The deadline for applications is September 28, 2011 at 18:00 (Italian time).
For further information visit the official site.

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The ICEF (http://www.dse.unive.it/en/centers-partners/icef/) conducts international research in the fields of Finance, Economics and Financial Econometrics. It also provides academic courses in these areas and organize the International Master in Economics and Finance.

The ICEF currently has the following vacancy: Postdoctoral fellow, full time for 24 months, for the project ‘Hedge funds: tail event behaviour and absolute alphas’.

Recent literature evaluating hedge funds performance asserts that there seems to be a talent in the hedge fund industry. One of the main problems in the research on the hedge funds extra-performance is the need to take into account the well known non-normality on returns and the non linear dependence from standard asset benchmarks due to the use of derivatives and dynamic trading strategies. How this affects the performance measurement is one of the central issues in this project. The focus is on the integration of dynamic models for risk measurement and hedge funds replication strategies. This project will allow a junior researcher to develop studies on a new area of finance: the alternative investments and specifically the hedge fund industry.

This is a project co-financed by the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice (www.unive.it) and GRETA (Venice, http://www.greta.it/en/index.htm).

The ideal candidate should hold a PhD in Finance (or be very close to finishing its PhD). A strong research potential in Finance are required.

The candidate is expected to conduct high-quality empirical research and to interact with other faculty members. Good writing and computing skills are essential. Fluency in English is required. The position is free of administrative duties and teaching obligations. If a small teaching load is desired, this can be accommodated and rewarded. It is an untenured post-doctoral position with duration of two years. Tentative beginning of appointment September 2008. An extension of the term is not excluded.

Salary (before taxes and pension contributions): Approx. 45.000 Euro (approx. 70,000 USD) for the entire duration of the program. The salary is exempt to taxation.

Further information on the profile of the position may be obtained from Prof. Dr. Monica Billio at billio[a-t ]unive.it

Applications including the application form (see below), curriculum vitae, scientific publications, 2 referees names and addresses being able to provide reference letters, in English or in Italian, and a copy of a valid Identity Document or Passport have to be sent to:

Head of the Department of Economics
University of Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Cannareggio 873
30121 VENEZIA – Italy

Applications have to be received by 21 June 2008.

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Areas of specific of interest include:

• multi-channel mesh networks architectures and protocols
• distributed monitoring for WMNs
• distributed channel assignment/switching schemes for WMNs
• network coding for WMNs
• prototyping and experimental measurements.

Qualifications

• Applicants should have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Communications Engineering or related fields. Research experience in mesh networking is highly desirable. Implementation and prototyping experiences in wireless networks are also viewed positively;
• Strong programming skills;
• The candidate must have an excellent academic and publication record; the ability to work in team is also essential.

Contact:
The successful candidate is expected to start from January/February 2008. The duration of the contract is 3 years. Please send your CV (including 3 references) to: tinku.rasheed[ at ]create-net.org, specifying “WING project” in the subject.

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The International Master in Economics and Finance is a truly unique programme. No other school in Italy can offer a faculty of such high-standard international ranking. Here are some of the factors that make the Master in Economics and Finance exceptional:

Faculty

The faculty is recruited from the world’s most renowned international academic institutions of Economics and Finance, as well as from business organizations operating in the financial sector. The faculty’s aim is to widen and deepen participants understanding of financial concepts whilst empowering them with hands-on practical skills that can be applied in the real world. Classmates – With no more than 20 participants representing many nationalities on the current program, participants will be enriched both in terms of work experience and cultural diversity, as well as through close interaction with instructors.

Tuition fees

11th Programme (2007-2008)
The enrolment and tuition fee is € 4.500,00. The fee must be paid in two instalments:

• € 1.000 when the selected student accepts to attend the master (not refundable);
• € 3.500 within 4 weeks of the beginning of the course.

For the 5 worthiest students part of the fee will be waived and the tuition fee will be € 2.500,00.

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• [France] PhD scholarships in Banking and Finance – University of Limoges, Department of Economics

The Ente “Luigi Einaudi” invites applications for research fellowships from candidates willing to work in the field of Competition in Banking and Financial Markets and to carry out their projects at the Ente’s facilities in Rome.

For the academic year 2007-2008 the Scientific Committee of the Ente will consider theoretical and empirical projects, mainly focussed on topics such as:

• Paradigms of competition (structure-conduct-performance; relative-market-power hypothesis; x-(in)efficiency; scale/scope-efficiency) and their application to evidence on European banking and finance;
• Competition drivers (such as: advances in technology, financial liberalization/deregulation and integration, single currency, etc.) in banking and finance;
• Competition and risk-taking in banking and finance: theoretical aspects and implications for credit availability;
• Market power, charter value and (micro/macro) financial stability;
• Competition and agency conflicts (between managers and shareholders) in the financial sector;
• M&A activity in the financial sector, market structure, capital markets performance and their implications for competition in the non financial sector;
• Competition in the financial sector: identifying sectoral and systemic fallouts for the non financial sector of the economy.

The fellowships will be assigned to highly qualified researchers. Candidates will be selected on the basis of their previous experience in the field and their proposed research projects. At the end of the period, the results of their work will be published in the Ente’s “Temi di ricerca”.

For each fellowship, a grant of € 5,000 per month before tax will be provided for a period ranging from one to twelve months, according to the preference stated by the candidate.

A curriculum vitae, an outline of the research project and an application form should be sent by e-mail (einaudil @ tin.it), in PDF or Word 97 compatible format, to arrive no later than 30 November 2006.

The Ente “Luigi Einaudi” is a foundation set up in 1965 in honour of Luigi Einaudi. It is sponsored by the Bank of Italy and the Italian Banking Association (ABI). Its purpose is to foster the advanced research and training of students in the fields of theoretical and applied economics. The Ente has traditionally provided financial help to young economists and has supported many Italian economists in their studies abroad. In recent years it has launched a new programme to encourage top-level research at its own facilities, which are conveniently located in the centre of Rome, not far from the Bank of Italy and the ABI. The foundation maintains close links with the Research Departments of both institutions. Researchers are encouraged to make contact with economists at the Bank of Italy and to attend seminars there, besides those organized at the Ente. They will have access to the Bank of Italy’s library and to a wealth of datasets ranging from microeconomic survey data on households and firms to aggregate time series. The Ente also promotes research projects on specific topics of scientific and policy relevance. A large-scale research project on Competition in Banking and Financial Markets has just been approved. The residential research is coordinated by a Scientific Committee composed of Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa), Massimo De Felice (La Sapienza University, Rome), Luigi Guiso (Tor Vergata University, Rome and CEPR), Gianfranco Torriero (ABI, Head of the Research Department), Fabiano Schivardi (University of Cagliari) and Daniele Terlizzese and Roberto Violi (Bank of Italy, Economic Research Department).

Application has to be received by 30 November 2006.

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