Thursday, February 7, 2008

Scholarship to Denmark ( Copenhagen U.)

Copenhagen Business School
PhD Scholarships in Corporate Finance and Energy Economics

PhD scholarships at the Department of Economics

The Department of Economics invites applications for two vacant PhD scholarships within the following research areas:

  • Corporate governance/corporate finance (one scholarship)
  • Energy economics (one scholarship)

The scholarships within corporate governance/finance and energy economics are related to specific grants from the Danish Social Science Research Council. The scholarship on corporate governance/finance is embedded in a research project entitled “Families and Firms: The impact of family risk and organization on the governance of closely held corporations”, directed by Prof. Morten Bennedsen (mb.eco@cbs.dk). The scholarship on energy economics is embedded in a research project entitled “Risky Power: Choice of technology, security of supply, and market power in power markets”, directed by Prof. Peter Møllgaard (hpm.eco@cbs.dk). Both projects are described in some detail at the department’s home page http://uk.cbs.dk/econ (”Research Projects”).

Application deadline: 12 October 2007 at 12:00 noon.

For further information please contact: Patrick S. Gram, tel.: +45 3815 2578, e-mail psg.eco@cbs.dk. Information about the department may be found at www.cbs.dk/

General information:
To be awarded a scholarship, one must be enrolled as a PhD student. Enrolment is dependent on the acceptance of an application, including a short project description prepared in co-operation with a member of the scientific staff at the Department. The description of the research project should contain a presentation of the intended focus problems, including the theory and methodology expected to be used.

A PhD scholarship runs for a period of 3 years and is only awarded to applicants with a Master’s degree. The successful candidate has a strong background in economics and quantitative methods.

The scholarship stipulates that the holder carry out tasks equivalent to 840 work hours.

Salary and appointment as a PhD student will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.

In addition, all applicants must submit an application that includes a completed compulsory application form, copy of Master’s degree certificate or other certificates of a corresponding level, brief curriculum vitae (CV), and a list of papers and publications.

A committee of experts in the field in question will consider all applications. Assessment of the applicants will be based on the quality and relevance of the project, including an evaluation of the applicant’s ability to accomplish it.

If it is not stated elsewhere the application must be submitted in triplicate.

Compulsory application forms, guideline, and further information on scholarships and the Doctoral Programme

The application must be submitted to:

Copenhagen Business School
Department of Economics
Porcelænshaven 16A, 1
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
att.: Patrick S. Gram

Marked “PhD – 33-2883″

Applications received by e-mail or discs will not be taken into consideration.

All interested researchers irrespective of age, sex, race, religion, or nationality are invited to apply for the position.

Visit this page to download the Data Sheet needed for application.