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Assistant Professorship of Econometrics

The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration of Maastricht 
University, The Netherlands, offers a tenure track assistant professorship 
in Econometrics.

Job description: This position has been made available through the award 
of a prestigious Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 
Professorship 2005 to the chair in econometrics at the Faculty of 
Economics and Business Administration.  The research of the Academy-chair 
will be concentrated in the field of dynamic panel data and time series 
econometrics with applications. Current areas of application are financial 
economics, macroeconomics and innovation and technology. 

The applicant will be appointed as a research leader, contributes to 
research and teaching in econometrics and related areas and collaborates 
with the Academy Professor, either in the field of panel data and time 
series econometrics or in a related area. With the Academy-chair, the 
applicant co-supervises Ph.D. students. Administrative duties are very 
limited.

Job qualification: Ph.D. in relevant area, affinity with teaching, strong 
research orientation, willingness to work in teams. The applicant should 
have professorial potential in the Academy Professor’s field of expertise.

Conditions of employment: The position is initially offered for a three-
year period and, subject to a positive evaluation, extended by another 
three years, with the possibility of tenure thereafter.
 
 Salary is competitive, depending on qualifications and work experience, 
between €3500 and € 4500 per month for a fulltime assistant professorship 
(12 monthly payments). On top of this, there is an 8% holiday allowance. 
Non-Dutch applicants could be eligible for a favorable tax treatment (30% 
rule).

Applications:  Applications should be received not later than November 15, 
2006. They should include a curriculum vitae and copies of some written 
work. Two letters of reference, assessing the applicant’s research 
potential and personality, should be separately sent by the referees. 
Applications can, preferably, be sent by e-mail to: 
[log in to unmask] Or to: Faculty of Economics and Business 
Administration, Personnel Department, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, 
The Netherlands, and refer to vacancy EFB-UDETRICS-2006-147 on both letter 
and envelope.

 Interviews: Interviews with promising applicants will be scheduled at 
Maastricht University or at the Allied Social Sciences Meetings in 
Chicago, January, 2007.  

For further information you may contact: Prof. dr. F.C. Palm, 
[log in to unmask],nl, phone: +31-43-3883833.