European Job Market for Economists
The European Job Market for Economists (EJME) provides a forum for postgraduates to be interviewed by recruiting institutions from across Europe. The EJME is co-sponsored by the RES, the European Economic Association (EEA) and the Spanish Economic Society (AEE).
In November, the RES hosted a webinar on how to succeed in the European Job Market, including perspectives from both candidates and employers. You can view this webinar here.
During the EJME, the RES hosted a virtual workshop on getting published, you can watch a recording of this workshop. More event details below:
Meet the Editors
Hear from mainstream and specialist academic journals explaining how journals work and the practicalities of getting a paper published. Chaired by Jackie Wahba, Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton.
Speakers:
Prof Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Managing Editor of the Economic Journal
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya is a Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics (EHESS) and a CEPR research fellow. Her research contributes to the fields of political economics, economic history, and development economics. Her primary interests are in understanding economic, social, and political determinants as well as consequences of conflict and ethnic prejudice.
Prof Francesco Lippi
Editor-in-Chief of the Economic Journal
Francesco Lippi is a Professor of Economics at LUISS University and a Senior Fellow at the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (EIEF). His research concerns monetary economics, inflation and the interactions between wage-setting and monetary institutions. Francesco previously served as a Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal and as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Central Banking.
Prof Jaap Abbring
Managing Editor of The Econometrics Journal | http://jaap.abbring.org/
Jaap is a professor of econometrics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the managing editor of The Econometrics Journal.
Victor Chernozhukov
Co-editor of The Econometrics Journal | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
To join this workshop, you will need to register to take part in the EJME, then you can access the session via the event platform.
How to prepare for the EJME Webinar
In November, the RES hosted a webinar on how to succeed in the European Job Market, including perspectives from both candidates and employers. You can view this webinar here.
The event was chaired by our President-Elect, Prof Nicholas Crafts CBE, Nick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Sussex and Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick. Together Nick and our panel of speakers covered:
- What hiring institutions are looking for
- What to expect from a virtual jobs market, an insight from a 2020 new recruit
- How to prepare for a 1st interview
- What to expect from an academic visit
- Choosing between your offers.
Webinar speakers
Hiring Academics
Prof Franck Portier
Managing Editor of the Economic Journal
Franck Portier is a Professor of Economics at University College London. He is a macroeconomist, with a focus on applied and theoretical business cycles analysis.
Dr Alessandra Bonfiglioli
Deputy Head of School and Director of Graduate Studies | School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London
Alessandra Bonfiglioli is a Reader at the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London, where she also serves as Deputy Head of School and Director of Graduate Studies. She is a Research Fellow at CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and a member of the Royal Economic Society. She holds a PhD in Economics from Stockholm University and previously held academic positions at the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Spain).
Alessandra is a macroeconomist mostly interested in international trade, growth and income inequality, and political economy. Her approach combines theoretical models with empirical analysis. Her current research focuses broadly on firms in the global economy. In particular, how firms and the distribution of their attributes shape a country’s exports and economic performance in general, how concentration has evolved in national and global markets, and what role firms played in both respects.
Recent Recruits
Dr Noriko Amano-Patiño
Assistant Professor | University of Cambridge
Noriko Amano-Patiño is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research primarily focuses on understanding the sources and implications of different dimensions of inequality across genders and racial groups. Prior to joining the faculty of Economics at Cambridge, she obtained her Ph.D. at Yale University in 2018, where she specialized in the fields of Labor Economics and Applied Econometrics.
Dr David Delacretaz
Lecturer | University of Manchester
David started earlier this year as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester. Before that, he completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018 and was a Nuffield College Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics for three years at the University of Oxford.
The 2020 webinar can be viewed by members here on our website.
