The primary responsibility is the interdisciplinary EU-research project “Advanced-Eval, which develops and applies advanced methods for the ex ante und ex post evaluation of EU-rural development policy programs. The project focuses on the following methodological and theoretical re-search topics:
1. Agent-based modelling of the rural economy as complex social and economic system in-corporating social network relations among agents.
2. Applied econometrics.
3. Political economy modelling of EU-Rural Development Policy (EU-RD policy).
4. Simulation of Economic-Ecological Systems based on a multi-agent-model.
The PhD-candidates will be directly integrated into an international and interdisciplinary research team within the EU-Project Advanced-Eval. A master’s
degree or a comparable university degree in agricultural or food economics; economics or social science; mathematical or computational economics is essential. Good knowledge in quantitative methods of economics or social science.
Please send applications and accompanying documents in the English language to the address below. Application has to be received (deadline) by 31 July 2006.
For further information contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Henning, Institut für
Agrarökonomie,
Christian-Albrechts-University
24098 Kiel, Germany.
Web:
http://www.uni-kiel.de/agrarpol/pages/de/euproject.html
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