The Department of Economics of the School of Economics and Business of the University of Navarra is looking for excellent and well-motivated researchers interested in submitting joint projects for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships. The project will last for two years and will lead to a permanent position in the department.

Our Department specializes in topics such as Applied, Behavioral, Development, Environmental, Food, Labor, Natural Resource, Political, Regional, Resource, Sports, and Urban Economics, Game Theory, Finance, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Governance.

The topics are open to a diverse range of economic fields, but Regional Economics (Economic Geography) is preferred.

We are interested in the possible topics listed below. However, we welcome any other topic relevant to this proposal.

• Agglomeration; Spatial Structural Transformation; Regional Inequality
• Depopulation; Population Change and Dynamism
• Food and Beverage economics
  • Access and Equity
  • Alternative Food Systems
  • Automation, AI, and Industry 4.0
  • Changing Consumer Tastes, Preferences and Behaviors.
  • Changing Geographies and Systems of Production and Consumption
  • Environmental and Sustainability Issues
  • Polycrisis (e.g., pandemics, geo-political disturbances, climate change, economic shocks, etc.)
  • Public Policy and the Regulatory Environment
  • The Geography of Food Safety and Food Insecurity
  • Transportation and Supply Chain Logistics
• The Impact of Festivals on Local and Regional Development
  • the socio-economic impact of festivals
  • festivals as a tourism generator
  • festivals and urban regeneration
  • festivals and place-image, place-branding, and place-making
  • the norms, culture, and institutions of festival traditions
  • festivals and the experience economy
  • festivals and negative externalities (e.g., environmental impacts)
  • modern festivals in the cyberspace
• Innovation and Competitiveness
• International Trade and Regional Economic Development
• Regional Forensic Analysis and Informal Economy
  • Effect of crime on regional economic development.
  • How cryptocurrency influences regional economic development.
  • Measuring the size of the informal economy.
  • Regional forensic analysis methodologies.
  • The role of bartering in regional economic development.
  • The role of the family economy in regional economic development.
• Transportation and the productivity of cities
• Trade-induced inequalities across demographic groups
• The Wealth of the Regions (especially Europe and Spain)

Keywords

Productivity, Efficiency, Regional Disparities,

Research Field

Regional Economics, Economic History, International Economic Development

REQUIREMENTS OF THE CANDIDATE

Main research field

Regional Economics or Economic Geography

Specific requirements

Experience doing research projects

Language

English

Level

Excellent

Required research Experience

PhD level of experience

• No more than 8 years      since the date of PhD defense at date 2024 September 11.

The candidate must not have lived or worked in Spain more than 12 months in the last 36 months calculating from 2024 September 11.

Documents to be submitted 

To rgarduno@unav.es

CV and letter of motivation