International Scholarships

KOF Swiss Economic Institute at the ETH Zurich offers various positions as (Senior) Researchers and Doctoral Students KOF is the leading economic research institute in Switzerland (www.kof.ethz.ch). Our research activities concentrate on the following three areas: Swiss business cycle developments, Switzerland in a globalised world, and long-term growth perspectives of Switzerland. KOF works in close … [More Info]

Economic Research Institute, University of Lugano,CH (Switzerland) Ph.D. candidate, Transport economics Economic Research Institute, University of Lugano,CH (Switzerland) The Economic Research Institute (IRE) of the University of Lugano (Switzerland) has a strong focus on regional and transport economics. The IRE opens applications for a position as a Ph. D. candidate in economics starting from the … [More Info]

The University of Lugano and the Institute for Economic Research invite applications for a PhD position in Economics. Ideal candidates have a MSc or an equivalent degree in Economics or Econometrics, a strong interest in Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Macroeconomics. They should have or be willing to acquire good programming skills. Applicants should be … [More Info]

The Center for Energy Policy and Economics at the Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), invites applications for up to two Research Assistant positions for three years. The starting date is expected to be in early 2007, but subject to budgetary approval, might be delayed for a few … [More Info]

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

The Faculty of Economics of the University of Lugano, Switzerland, opens an assistant position in Accounting & Financial Management, starting in Fall 2008. The main responsibility will be to support the teaching of accounting and valuation courses and to assist empirical research projects particularly in the field of corporate governance. It is encouraged that the … [More Info]

PhD position in (Applied) Statistics Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany) The Courant Research Centre “Poverty, Equity and Growth in Developing and Transition Countries: Statistical Methods and Empirical Analyses” at the University of Göttingen invites applications for a PhD position in (Applied) Statistics. The position is available October 1, 2008, fixed for 3 years and has no teaching … [More Info]