Postdoctoral Fellow (1-year contract), School of Economics

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The family-like atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together - building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.

Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities - all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To work under a large-scale MOE Tier 3 project on the Role of Firm-To-Firm Input-Output Linkages In Transmitting Aggregate Shocks: Impacts on Firm-Level Productivity, Labor Demand, and Innovation.
• Work spans from data cleaning, compilation, empiricalanalysis, calibration, theoretical modelling, and quantitative simulations.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D. degree in Economics with specialty in international trade, global value chains, labor economics, spatial econometrics,productivity estimations, innovations, and/or firm-to-firm network formation.
• To have knowledge in the quantitative structural modelling of international trade, firm-to-firm production network, firm-level innovationactivities, and firm-level productivity distribution.
• To have computer programming skills for cleaning firm-to-firm data, empirical estimations, calibration, and quantitative simulations.

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Please note that your application will be sent to and reviewed by the direct employer - Singapore Management University