Apologies for any cross-posting. This message is for Economics post-doctoral students. Please distribute widely!
Dear Fellow Researchers,
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia is participating in a scheme funded by the University to provide opportunities for Post Doc Fellows to come and work here for 3 years and to build research links etc....
The fellowships are available on a competitive basis and are project based.
CofFEE is offering (subject to competitive outcomes) a project in the scheme.
An advertisement went into the national daily newspaper The Australian yesterday (Wednesday) and refers interested parties to the following link for details of application:
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/fellowships/
The specific CofFEE project that we are interested in getting some good applicants is at
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/fellowships/programs/14economy.html
It is also described below under sign-off.
It is an excellent opportunity for a post doctoral person to come and live in Australia for 3 years and work in a very vibrant post keynesian (or whatever it is!) research centre. Our home page is linked below.
Contact Professor Mitchell (see below) if you are interested and an application strategy can be worked out.
Kind regards
Martin Watts
A macroeconometric input-output model of the Australian economy with multi-country linkages (Area: Quantitative Modelling)
Prior to Submitting an Expression of Interest form it is recommended that you discuss your interest with the contact person below.
Contact:
Professor William Mitchell
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+61 (2) 49215027
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) is an official research centre at the University. CofFEE comprises an active research group with broad interests including macroeconomics, labour, regional, financial and social economics and system dynamics. The group is also technically oriented with a strong interest in time series econometric modelling.
CofFEE seeks a post doctoral fellow who has particular interests in macroeconomics and econometric modelling to augment our modelling team. In addition, the position will provide ample scope for complementary individual research projects.
We are currently developing a medium-size macroeconometric model (MEM) of the Australian economy called CofFEE-1, which will be used for theoretical development in macroeconomics, policy analysis, forecasting and simulation.
It is expected to complete the first stage of the modelling over 2003-05.
CofFEE-1 will be based on consistent stock-flow balance sheet relations and the basic structural model will reflect a Post Keynesian demand system. An innovative approach to the labour market and financial sector will also be developed. The emphasis on the construction phase will be on rigorous testing of competing economic theory.
The model construction phase will employ the Fair-Taylor approach (as used in the U.S. Federal Reserve Board model) but will also provide scope for experimentation with modern dynamic time series methods. These techniques include general-to-specific error correction modelling and Structural Vector Autoregressive modelling. In part, the project will permit the exploration of model building and estimation approaches which will aim to resolve outstanding issues in the discipline.
The research plan is to integrate CofFEE-1 into the multi-country (MC) model of Ray Fair at Yale University. The suite of models will be completed by the development of an interregional multi-industry input-output mode comprising the mainland Australian States and Territories.
The integration of the IO model into CofFEE-1-MC will create a unique structure capable of tracing international and national shocks throughout the whole economic system.
CofFEE-1 will be an open source model which will be made available to the broader research community via a WWW interface.
CofFEE's home page is http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee
Telephone Professor Bill Mitchell (02) 4921 5027 or (02) 4921 7283 for details.
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Martin J. Watts
Associate Professor of Economics
Head, School of Policy
Faculty of Business and Law
Deputy Director
Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
The University of Newcastle
NSW 2308
Australia
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http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/
Phone (61)2 4921-5069 (Work)
Fax (61)2 4921-6919 (Work)
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Mobile: 0 414 966 751
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