Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Prof. Jan De Loecker/ Market Power)
12 Months
Expired
Undergraduate scholarships
BAP-2022-171
2195 EUR
You will receive a stipend of €2,195 per month (net of taxes) with full health insurance.
Jan De Loecker
The pre-doctoral fellow will work directly with Professor De Loecker on his ERC Market Power Project. The support consists of cleaning data, programming statistical models of firm behavior, and joining regular team meetings, and proof reading. The work will consist of using STATA, and other statistical software (Pyhton, etc.) to support the research projects of Professor De Loecker.
The Pre-Doctoral Fellow will work under Professor Jan De Loecker. Appointment to begin September 1 (or earlier if feasible), 2022, renewable for a second year based on mutual agreement.
The pre-doctoral position is intended to provide experiences that will be most beneficial to applicants intending to pursue graduate work in economics. The work will make the Pre-Doctoral Fellow familiar with the lndustrial Organization literature, specifically on market power and firm performance, and it will aid greatly to gain experience with advanced empirical and statistical methods.
The Pre-doctoral fellow is part of the IO group at KU Leuven, and will have access to all the seminar and academic and social activities at the economics department and the KU Leuven. Fellows typically stay for one or two years before applying to graduate school in Economics.
Naamsestraat 69
3000 Belgium