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D0 Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles; Institutions: Design, Formation, & Operations
D5 Incomplete Markets; Financial Markets
D7 Bureaucracy; Administration Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption; Positive Analysis of Policy-Making & Implementation
D8 Search; Learning; Information & Knowledge; Communication; Belief
F5 Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; International Relations & International Political Economy: Other
G2 Government Policy & Regulation
K2 Regulated Industries & Administrative Law
L5 Economics of Regulation

Applications are sought for the position of Research Fellow in Financial Regulation at the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP) in the University of Cambridge. The Centre is a leading research centre at Cambridge University that conducts academic and policy research in the areas of financial regulation and financial markets. The Centre brings together faculty, post-doctoral researchers and students from Economics, Law, Statistics, Mathematics, and the Judge Business School. The candidate will be expected to participate in a research programme into the economic, legal and regulatory aspects of financial crisis management and the role of financial governance and regulation in financial innovation. In particular, the research will address the principles v. rules debate in financial regulation and its impact on financial innovation. The candidate is expected to have academic degrees in one of the following areas: law, economics, and/or management/finance. Applications are particularly welcome from those with a background in game theory and other microeconomic models such as agency theory. He/she will be expected to have obtained a PhD in the relevant field (or to have submitted the thesis) before taking up the post. The appointment is expected to commence as soon as possible, and will be for three years in the first instance. The salary will be in the range £24.402 — £31.840 (research fellow) and £32.795 - £41.544 (senior research fellow) pa. For more information on the position, please contact ka231@cam.ac.uk. To submit an application, please send a full cv with listed publications, three letters of recommendation along with the application form PD18 (Parts I and III) which can be obtained from http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/pd18.pdf to the Administrator, Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, e-mail: cfa25@cam.ac.uk phone +44 (0) 1223-765456. Application deadline is 15 September 2007. Applicants who do not hear from us within 6 weeks of the application deadline should assume they have not been shortlisted. The University is committed to equality of opportunity.
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