Assistant Professor positions in Economics

The University of Barcelona School of Economics invites applications for seven six-year Assistant Professor positions in Economics starting in June 2025. Promotion to full tenure (Associate Professor) is contingent upon favorable evaluation and governmental accreditation.

The University of Barcelona is a leading center in southern Europe, deeply committed to excellence in research. With a longstanding tradition in teaching, it offers a wide array of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in Economics and Business. Within this framework, the UB School of Economics serves as a pivotal platform for research and graduate education in Economics.

Candidates are expected to show outstanding commitment to research and must have completed a PhD degree by December 1, 2024.

They will be expected to teach within both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, supervise student’s work at any level, establish independent research programmes recognised internationally, and actively participate in the school's research activities. Successful candidates will join the following departments:

Department of Economics – Section of Economic Theory (2 positions: 1 in Microeconomics and 1 in Macroeconomics). Fields of interest:

• Development; Growth
• International Finance/Macro
• International Trade
• Macroeconomics; Monetary
• Labor; Demographic Economics
• Environmental; Agricultural Economics
• Microeconomics Theory
• Industrial Organization
• Behavioural Economics

Department of Economics – Section of Public Economics (2 positions). Fields of interest:

• Environmental; Agricultural Economics
• Health; Education; Welfare
• Labor; Demographic Economics
• Political Economy
• Public Economics
• Urban; Rural; Regional Economics

Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics – Section of Econometrics and Statistics (1 position, teaching in Econometrics and Statistics). Fields of interest:

• Econometrics
• Statistics
• Applied Microeconomics
• Insurance
• Urban; Rural; Regional Economics
• Finance
• Labor; Demographic Economics

Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy and World Economy (1 position). Fields of interest:

• Political Economy
• Economic History

Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (1 position). Fields of interest:

• Microeconomic Theory
• Environmental; Agricultural Economics
• Finance
• Insurance

Submission of interest:

Interested candidates should submit their expression of interest via EconJobMarket. The submission should include a cover letter, CV, three letters of recommendation, a copy of the Job Market Paper, and any other relevant research output.

Interviews will be conducted virtually in early-December 2024. Based on the interviews, some candidates might be invited for seminars in January/February 2025.

Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2024.

Email enquiries should be directed to: [email protected]