On-Site
Professor
76000 EUR
(81300 USD)
The starting yearly gross salary for Full Professor is approx. € 76.000 and can be increased based on seniority and qualified research results. The salary is subject to employee-paid social security contributions and Italian income tax.
The Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice invites expressions of interest for a permanent Full Professorship in Economics, in the area of evidence-based policy, including research making use of randomized control trials and field experiments, looking at welfare issues. The position comes with a generous budget, including dedicated funding to conduct field experiments (about 500K Euro). Knowledge of Italian is not required. Starting date: Autumn 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline: 14 April 2023.
The Department of Economics at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice invites expressions of interest for a Full Professorship in Economics (SECS-P/01), with a track record of high-quality publications in the area of evidence-based policy, including research making use of randomized control trials and field experiments, looking at welfare issues.
The position is permanent with starting date in Autumn 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Knowledge of Italian is not required.
The position is linked to the 2023-2027 “Departments of Excellence” Program awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. This funding aims at expanding the research agenda of the Department of Economics, by studying policies and interventions that can improve people’s quality of life and contrast new forms of economic vulnerability. Specifically, the program will investigate interventions that can contrast inequality, poverty, and other forms of economic and social exclusion, arising as a result of - amongst others - demographic changes, market imperfections and limitations to market participations, financial crisis and impoverishment, climate deterioration, etc.
The appointee will take a leading role in the Program, which envisages the recruitment of other more junior positions. The position comes with a generous budget supporting the Program, including dedicated funding to conduct field experiments (about 500K Euro).
Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University
Our Department is one of the top-ranked Department of Economics in Italy, with an established international reputation. It is devoted to promoting high-quality research, also with an interdisciplinary approach. Our fields of specialisation include economic theory, empirical economics and policy evaluation, macroeconomics and finance, econometrics, quantitative methods and data science, experimental and behavioural economics, environmental resource and climate change, economic geography, regional science, tourism economics.
It hosts three PhD programs, an intense seminar activity, various specialised research laboratories, including a new and fully equipped laboratory for experiments in the social sciences, and a cluster for the analysis of micro data and big data. Additional information on the research activities at the Department can be found at: https://www.unive.it/pag/28371/.
Applications to the call for expression of interest
Expression of interest for the position should be received by 14 April 2023. They should include a CV and a statement of interest and should be sent to the Head of Department (Prof. Michele Bernasconi) at the following address: recruiting.dec@unive.it All expressions of interests will be treated as strictly confidential. Promising applicants will be invited to visit the Department.
Note that this is a call for expression interest, not a job vacancy announcement. The position will be filled in, according to the Italian regulation for recruitment of full professors. For additional information, please contact us at the same address for application.
