PhD Studentship
University of St Andrews (United Kingdom)
PhD Studentship at the University of St Andrews
Project Name: PRIVATE SECTOR FINANCE AND THE SUPPORT OF INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SOURCE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
The Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis (CDMA), based in the School of Economics and Finance at the University of St Andrews, has received substantial grant awards to work on topics related to the above named project.
The Centre is offering one PhD studentship to be taken up in Autumn 2006 – or as soon as possible thereafter.
The applicant will be either 1) a macroeconomic theorist with a specialized interest in micro-founded models of economic growth or 2) an economic historian with specialized interests in finance and economic growth in the British Industrial Revolution. The applicant will be expected to restrict his or her thesis research to the above named project and to contribute substantial research assistance in the
completion of a historical database of corporate financial structures for 18th century and early 19th century Britain.
If the applicant is a macroeconomist he or she will have completed either a Masters degree in economics or will have at least an Honours degree-level education in a technical area such as mathematics or engineering. If the applicant is an economic historian, he or she will have completed a Masters degree in history, economic history or social history. Offers of a studentship will be conditional on applicants being admitted to the University as a PhD student. Awards will be for one year in the first instance, with continuation for a further year subject to satisfactory progress in the first year.
CDMA consists at present of six graduate students, affiliated members of the School, as well as affiliates from other Universities. More details can be seen at: www.st-and.ac. uk/cdma. Information on the School is available at http://www.st- andrews.ac. uk/economics/ . Details on how to apply for a PhD place can be found at
http://www.st- andrews.ac. uk/services/ admissions/ pgadmission. shtml.
Candidates should discuss their potential application with Professor Charles Nolan, e-mail: Charles.Nolan @ st-andrews.ac. uk,
Telephone, 00 44 (0) 1334 462425
or Dr Gary Shea, e-mail: gss2 @ st-andrews.ac. uk,
Telephone, 00 44 (0) 1334 462441.
You should apply on-line and in addition applications comprising a covering letter, CV and the names and contact details of three academic referees should also be sent to the Secretary, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis, School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews, St Salvator’s College, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AL, Scotland, UK. Phone/fax: 01334 462420/44, or e-mail: cdma @ st-and.ac.uk .
Application has to be received by 31. December 2006.
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