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ECB-CFS CONFERENCE ON HOUSEHOLD * Call For Papers
HOUSEHOLD FINANCES & CONSUMPTION
2008 NBER-NSF TIME SERIES * Call For Papers
CONFERENCE
2ND INSIDE (INSIGHTS ON IMMIGRATION * Workshop Announcement
AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS) WORKSHOP
THE EVOLVING FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND * Call For Papers
THE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM OF
MONETARY POLICY
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG * Tenure-Track Professor/
Associate Professor/
Assistant Professor
UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG * Full Professor in
Public Finance
KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ * Full Professorship in
International Economics &
Monetary Theory & Policy
UNIVERSITY OF BONN * Professorship in
Economic Theory
WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN * Economist
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CALL FOR PAPERS
ECB-CFS CONFERENCE ON
HOUSEHOLD FINANCES AND CONSUMPTION
4 - 5 September 2008
Frankfurt
The European Central Bank and the Center for Financial
Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt are organizing a
conference on Household Finances and Consumption. The
objective of the conference is to present state-of-the-art
empirical research and empirically motivated theoretical
research on household asset accumulation, debt, and
consumption behavior over the life cycle. The focus of the
conference is on papers based on household-level, survey
data without geographical limitation but with some
preference for comparative analysis across countries.
TOPICS:
We actively solicit papers in the following areas, but
other related areas may also be considered:
- Household consumption, saving, and portfolio choice
- Financing retirement and the demographic transition
- Housing, mortgage markets, and financial markets
- Household Finances and Monetary Policy
- Consumer indebtedness and financial distress
- Behavioral approaches to asset accumulation, debt
behavior, and consumption
- Financial literacy, financial sophistication, and
professional advice
- Subjective expectations, overconfidence, pessimism and
portfolio choice
- Social networks and trust
The conference will include plenary talks by distinguished
academics and central bankers. The academic talks will be
given by Professors Orazio Attanasio (University College
London) and Deborah Lucas (Northwestern).
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Luigi Guiso (EUI), Michael Haliassos (CFS and Goethe
University), Peter Mooslechner (Austrian National Bank),
Lucrezia Reichlin (European Central Bank).
PARTICIPATION:
If you wish to participate in the full conference, please
send an email by May 30, 2008 to:
CONTACT: Ms. Jeanette Cramer
Directorate General Research
European Central Bank
Email: MAILTO:jeanette.cramer@ecb.europa.eu
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
If you wish to submit a paper, please email an abstract and
the paper, if available, as separate pdf file to:
CONTACT: Ms. Cramer
Email: MAILTO:jeanette.cramer@ecb.europa.eu
The deadline for submitting papers is May 30, 2008.
Inclusion in the Program will be confirmed by June 30,
2008. Travel and local expenses of paper presenters will be
covered. Only electronic submissions will be considered.
Plenary talks on September 4 are open to financial
practitioners, public servants, and to interested
researchers who do not intend to register for the entire
conference. If you wish to participate only in the plenary
session, open to financial practitioners, interested
researchers, and students, please send your reply form by
August 1, 2008.The participation fee for plenary talks has
been set to Euro 100. Academics, public servants, and students
are exempted from this fee. Registration by August 1 is
needed.
CONFERENCE VENUE:
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Campus Westend
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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CALL FOR PAPERS
2008 NBER-NSF TIME SERIES CONFERENCE
CREATES, School of Economics and Management
University of Aarhus, Denmark
12 - 13 September 2008
CONFERENCE DETAILS:
The conference starts Friday morning 10:00 a.m.
(registration from 9:00 a.m.) and ends Saturday afternoon.
A conference dinner is scheduled for Friday.
For details about conference organization, hotel
information and registration form see:
or CREATES' homepage:
Please note early hotel booking discount with deadline 1
August 2008.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Tim Bollerslev (Duke University and CREATES)
Bent J. Christensen (University of Aarhus and CREATES)
Richard A. Davis (Columbia University)
Niels Haldrup (University of Aarhus and CREATES)
James H. Stock (Harvard University)
Ruey S. Tsay (University of Chicago)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Only electronic submissions are accepted. Send an abstract
or a paper via the conference web page. Approximately 40
papers will be accepted for either plenary or poster
sessions.
The conference will provide financial support to authors
presenting papers and posters. Need for and scope of
support will be communicated along with acceptance of
paper.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 2 June 2008
Notification of acceptance no later than 8 July 2008.
Feel free to circulate this call for papers to colleagues
who may be interested.
We look forward to seeing you in September.
With best regards,
Bent J. Christensen, Christian M. Dahl, Annette Andersen,
Niels Haldrup (local organizers)
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2ND INSIDE (INSIGHTS ON IMMIGRATION AND
DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS) WORKSHOP
Institute for Economic Analysis
(CSIC)
July 2 - 3, 2008
Barcelona, Spain
INSIDE is an independent, non-partisan initiative launched
by the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC). We aim at
mobilizing and coordinating the research community
contributing to the understanding of the causes and
consequences of migrations. Special emphasis is also placed
on the study of key aspects of economic development and
growth of poor countries.
WORKSHOP:
The Second INSIDE workshop will be held in Barcelona the
coming 2nd and 3rd of July 2008. Those who would like to
attend the workshop, please write to us before the 15th of
May 2008.
CALL FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS - INSIDE SPAIN:
Being an INSIDE Spain member has many advantages, including
the possibility of funding your research, which are all
described in our web page, under "INSIDE Spain". If you
would like to become a member, we invite you to present
your proposal. Candidates need to submit a research project
in which they outline their objectives and expected results
together with the support requested (if any) in an annex.
The project proposal should not exceed four pages. If the
project is accepted, the candidate will become a member of
INSIDE Spain for a renewable period of two years. Those who
do not renew their current membership will be considered
associate members. The deadline for the receipt of
proposals will be the 31st of October 2008.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
More information available at:
For questions and enquiries, please contact:
Email: MAILTO:inside.org@gmail.com
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THE CEPR/ESI 12TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON
'THE EVOLVING FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND THE TRANSMISSION
MECHANISM OF MONETARY POLICY'
25/26 September 2008
Basel
Co-organised and hosted by the
Bank for International Settlements
CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE: 1 JUNE 2008
The 12th CEPR/European Summer Institute Annual Conference
will take place on 25/26 September 2008 in Basel and will
be co-organised with, and hosted by, the Bank for
International Settlements. The CEPR/ESI Annual Conferences
were previously sponsored by the South African Reserve
Bank, Banco de Portugal, Bank of Finland, the National Bank
of Poland, the Nederlandsche Bank, the Oesterreichische
Nationalbank and the European Central Bank. Former
conferences were held on 'Fiscal Policy Imbalances, the
Monetary Transmission Mechanism and Prudential Supervision'
in Lisbon (1999), 'Vivent les Differences?: Heterogeneous
Europe' in Amsterdam (2000), 'Old Age, New Economy and
Central Banking' in Helsinki (2001), 'Regulatory Changes
for European Financial Markets' in Vienna (2002), 'The Euro
Area as an Economic Entity' in Eltville (2003), 'EMU
Enlargement to the East and the West' in Budapest (2004)
'Structural Reforms and Economic Growth in Europe' in
Frankfurt-am-Main (2005) 'Globalisation and Monetary
Policy' in Warsaw (2006) and on 'Global Imbalances,
Competitiveness and Emerging Markets' in Pretoria (2007).
OVERVIEW:
The topic of the 12th CEPR/ESI Annual Conference will be
'The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission
Mechanism of Monetary Policy'. The structure of the
financial system has changed considerably in recent years
in at least three ways. First, financial markets and
institutions have become more globalised, thus
strengthening the international transmission of shocks.
Second, business models of financial institutions have
shifted from originate-and-hold to originate-and-distribute
strategies. While the recent turmoil in financial markets
may have slowed the growth in the securitisation of
financial claims, at this stage it is too early to say
whether the trend has been reversed. Third, regulatory and
accounting frameworks have changed substantially. Banking
regulation has been shifting from a framework of simple
rules to a more model-based approach based on risk
management principles. Similarly, historical cost
accounting has been giving way to fair value accounting
(mark-to-market or mark-to-model).
Assessing the implications of these trends for monetary
policy in general, and the transmission mechanism in
particular, is not straightforward. For example, to what
degree do the existing models used for monetary policy have
to be adapted in the light of these changes? How are the
individual channels of monetary policy transmission
affected, and how is this reflected in their balance? To
what extent should monetary policy strategies be adjusted
to respond to such changes?
In addition to the submissions selected from a call for
papers, the programme will include policy lectures by
senior central bankers, papers by reputed academics and a
high-level panel.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
One part of the conference will be reserved for central
bank researchers of member countries of the European Union
and the EU candidate countries. Therefore, the organizers
of the 2008 CEPR/ESI Annual Conference ask the Research
Departments of all central banks of the EU and EU candidate
countries to submit their best paper related to the
specified area above. The application deadline is 1 June
2008. If you would like to submit a paper for this meeting,
please contact:
CONTACT: Nadine Clarke at CEPR
Email: MAILTO:nclarke@cepr.org
Tel: +44 (0) 207 183 8808
The organizers will then select the three best papers for
presentation at the conference in a special session of
central bank research papers. Moreover, the organizers will
award the best of these three papers with the CEPR/ESI 2008
Prize for the Best Central Bank Research Paper.
THE ORGANIZERS:
Sylvester Eijffinger (CentER, Tilburg University, RSM
Erasmus University and CEPR)
Kees Koedijk (Tilburg University and CEPR)
Claudio Borio (Bank for International Settlements)
Christian Upper (Bank for International Settlements)
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THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Tenure-Track Professor/Associate Professor/
Assistant Professor
in the Faculty of Business and Economics
(Ref.: RF-2007/2008-613)
Centenary Recruitment Plan
Founded in 1911, The University of Hong Kong is committed
to the highest international standards of excellence in
teaching and research, and has been at the international
forefront of academic scholarship for many years. Of a
number of recent indicators of the University's
performance, one is its ranking at 18 among the top 200
universities in the world by the UK's Times Higher
Education Supplement. The University has a comprehensive
range of study programmes and research disciplines, with
20,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 50
countries, and a complement of 1,200 academic members of
staff, many of whom are internationally renowned.
As the University approaches its 100th anniversary, a major
human resource expansion plan has been launched to provide
200 new academic positions. The purpose of this Centenary
Recruitment Plan is to enhance our research competitiveness
and to facilitate the introduction and delivery of a new
four-year undergraduate curriculum from 2012.
Building on Hong Kong's international status and its
mission to serve China, the University offers an
intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic
environment, with attractive remuneration packages.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Applications are invited for appointment as Professor/
Associate Professor/Assistant Professor on tenure track in
all fields within the Faculty of Business and Economics,
from July 1, 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter, on a
three-year fixed term, with other appointment lengths
possible. Exceptionally outstanding candidates could also
be considered for appointment on tenure terms (except for
the Assistant Professor level).
ABOUT THE FACULTY OF BUSINESS:
The Faculty of Business and Economics was created in 2001
and has two Schools - School of Business and School of
Economics and Finance, and seven research centres. Its 80
internationally diverse full-time faculty members form a
dynamic team of distinguished scholars and teachers who are
world experts in their fields and in the dynamic economies
of China and East Asia.
The mission of the Faculty of Business and Economics is to
provide Asia's premier international economic and
management education and research and to equip students
with the vision and skills to become leaders in Hong Kong,
Greater China and in the region and beyond. A full range
of bachelors, masters, doctoral, MBA and executive programs
are offered to give students and program participants
integrative East-West perspective and in-depth state-of-
the-art insights in management, economics, finance and
career success skills. The research environment is amply
supported, active and highly productive with output
published in premier international journals, top-level
access to policy makers and frequent seminar speakers and
visitors from overseas and the region. The alumni of The
University of Hong Kong constitute a "who's who" of the
region's leaders including twelve of the seventeen
ministers of the Hong Kong government.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in the relevant
fields ranging from accounting, economics, finance and
human resource management, to international business,
management information systems, marketing and strategy.
Appointees are expected to deliver quality teaching and
commit to high-quality scholarly research and services.
Candidates at the Professor level should have a proven
record of internationally recognized scholarship and
teaching. For professional areas such as accounting and
information systems, a professional qualification is
preferred.
Applicants should state clearly which post and field
(preferably with reference number) they wish to be
considered for.
SALARY/BENEFITS:
A highly competitive salary commensurate with
qualifications and experience will be offered reflecting
market rates. The appointments will attract a contract-end
gratuity and University contribution to a retirement
benefits scheme, totalling up to 15 percent of basic
salary, as well as leave, medical/dental benefits and
research funding benefits. Housing benefits will be
provided as applicable. At current rates, salaries tax does
not exceed 16 percent of gross income.
Further particulars and application forms (272/302 amended)
can be obtained at:
or from:
CONTACT: The Appointments Unit (Senior)
Human Resource Section, Registry
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Fax: (852) 2540 6735 or 2559 2058
Email: MAILTO:senrappt@hkucc.hku.hk
Review of applications will commence from May 9, 2008 until
the posts are filled. Candidates who are not contacted
within 2 months of the date of their applications may
consider their applications unsuccessful.
The University is an equal opportunity employer and is
committed to a No-Smoking Policy.
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UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG
Full Professor in Public Finance
Applications for the position of a Full Professor in Public
Finance (W 3) are invited by the Department of Economics
and Behavioural Sciences at the University of Freiburg.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The successful candidate will be expected to conduct
research and to teach in the field of economics, with a
particular emphasis in public finance. A further
specialisation in monetary economics is also welcome.
Primary responsibilities include teaching students in the
Bachelor and Master programmes as well as Ph.D. students.
The ability and willingness to teach in English is
expected.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates must have a completed university degree,
educational skills, a doctoral degree as well as a
'Habilitation' degree or equivalent scientific merits.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
The University of Freiburg encourages applications of
women. Applicants with children are welcome as well since
the university is committed to family-friendliness.
Part-time work is generally possible. Equally qualified
people with disabilities will get preferential treatment.
Applicants should submit the usual documents by May 2nd,
2008 to:
CONTACT: The Vice Dean of the Department of
Economics and Behavioural Sciences
Professor Thomas P. Gehrig, Ph.D.
Albert-Ludwigs-University
Freiburg i. Br., Germany
A completed application form should be included, available
for download at:
www.wvf.unifreiburg.de/informationen
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KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ
Austria
Full Professorship in International Economics
and Monetary Theory and Policy
Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria, School of Social
and Economics Studies, invited applications for a Full
Professorship starting on October 1, 2008 in International
Economics and Monetary Theory and Policy.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The holder of the chair is expected to represent this field
in research and teaching and to contribute to the distinct
research profile of the School. He or she is expected to
closely collaborate with the "Graz Schumpeter Centre".
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Applicants should have an outstanding publication record in
the field, including, in particular, articles in peer-
reviewed high-quality and international journals. In
addition, they are expected to have excellent international
research contacts and to be willing and able to raise
external funds for research projects. Applicants are
required to hold the degree of habilitation or to have
equivalent academic credentials. They also need to
demonstrate a commitment to teaching excellence at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, management
competence in gender mainstreaming is expected.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
The University of Graz is committed to the policy of
increasing the share of female members of its academic
staff and therefore particularly encourages women to apply.
Among candidates of equal qualification, female candidates
are given preference.
Applications are to be submitted under indication of the
characteristic number 22/11/99 ex 2007/08 until the
16.04.2008. Information about the application procedure and
further preconditions can be found under:
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UNIVERSITY OF BONN
Professorship in Economic Theory
The Department of Economics is seeking to fill a tenured
professorship (full professor, W3) in the field Economic
Theory.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Candidates should have research and teaching interests in
Economic Theory. Applicants must possess a doctorate and a
distinguished research record.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a list of
publications, two recent research papers, teaching
evaluations, and copies of degree certificates to:
CONTACT: Dekan der Rechts-und
Staatswissenschaftlichen Fakultat
Universitat Bonn
Adenauerallee 24-42
53113 Bonn, Germany
The deadline for application is April 30, 2008.
For further information contact:
The University of Bonn is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Women are encouraged to apply.
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WELLESLEY COLLEGE
WELLESLEY CENTERS FOR WOMEN
Economist
Research Scientist Senior Research Scientist
The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) at Wellesley College
is seeking a fulltime economist with expertise on gender.
The person in this position will bring her/his own research
program. She/he will also collaborate with other WCW
researchers to build on prior national and international
work at the Centers on women, children, and public policy.
WCW is a policy oriented research center funded primarily
by grants and contracts. Visit our website:
for a full description of current work at the Wellesley
Centers for Women.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
A Ph.D. in economics is required, as is a strong record of
scholarly publications and successful research grant
writing.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
This is a fulltime, 12-month position. We will begin
reading letters of nomination and applications accompanied
by a curriculum vitae beginning July 1, 2008. Applications
will be accepted until the position is filled. To apply
online, please use the following link:
Position is open until filled.
Wellesley College is an EO/AA educational institution and
employer. The College is committed to increasing the
diversity of the college community and the curriculum.
Candidates who believe they will contribute tot that goal
are encouraged to apply.
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