Job Description
The Department of Economics (DSE) at the University of Bologna, is seeking to recruit at least eight three-year Post-Docs and three fixed-term (three years, non-tenure track) Junior Assistant Professors financed by Next Generation EU. Candidates are required to have expertise and devote part of their research time in at least one of the following broad research areas:
A. Data platform and knowledge transfer: Design and implementation of architecture, validation of data analysis indicators, tools for privacy-preserving and data sharing, dashboard visualisation, knowledge transfer, exploitation plan, pilot tests.
B. Public sector, policy design and performance: Quality of public services (including health), performance of local public organizations, design of public tenders, ex-ante and ex-post policy evaluation (administrative, survey and experimental data) in public economics and political economy, trust in public institutions.
C. Households’ sustainability: investments in education and skills mismatch, parental investments in the offspring, labour markets: allocation of time and care within the family, gender gaps, ex-ante and ex-post policy evaluation (administrative, survey and experimental data) in the field of labour, education economics.
D. Sustainable finance: (i) Econometric analysis of the impact of climate change; measurement and evaluation of physical and transition risks at the micro and macro levels; (ii) Public debt and the financial system under compounding risks, including debt sustainability and fiscal-monetary policy mix in unstable environments.
E. Structural change and global dynamics: Exposure of firms and territories to trade, foreign direct investment and migration flows; effect of these flows on innovation capacity for transition to a circular economy; impact of CE transition on inter-industry trade flows and reconfiguration of global value chains.
F. Low carbon policies: Carbon emission reduction, energy efficiency (greener building, energy poverty), individuals’ and communities’ role in fostering ecological transition, social and green sustainable procurement.
G. Territorial sustainability: Transport economics, smart and sustainable urban mobility, discrete-choice experiments and modelling, public transport and micromobility.
H. Social sustainability: (i) Inequality and Poverty Evaluation; (ii) Redistribution and Targeting Policies; (iii) Measurement of Social Cohesion; (iv) Third Sector (Non-Profit Firms, NGOs, etc.).
I. Sustainable Transition Ecosystem in Emilia-Romagna: circular economy; blue economy; sustainable business models; ecological transition; environmental and innovation policies; CSR; prosumers.
J. Chronic disease management programs: Development of a data platform integrating individual-level longitudinal databases. Analysis of the comparative effectiveness of educational, financial and organizational interventions on the compliance with clinical guidelines and on health outcomes.
Candidates for the Junior Assistant Professors are required to hold a PhD at the time of enrolment and the teaching load will be 30 hours/year. Knowledge of Italian is not required, though helpful. Post-Docs will have no teaching load.
REPEC ranks our Department among the best Economics departments worldwide, at no. 1 in Italy, no. 14 in Europe and no. 42 in the world. According to the Tilburg University Economics Ranking 2016-2020, our Department is the only one of a public university in Italy among the top 100 worldwide in Economics.
For additional information, please contact Prof. Giovanni Prarolo (giovanni.prarolo@unibo.it).