Singapore Management University

Position Title/Short Description

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The School of Economics at Singapore Management University has openings for appointments at the rank of Postdoctoral Fellow. The school invites applications from outstanding candidates with research interests in the field of International Trade, Spatial Economics/Econometrics, Labor Economics, and Industrial Organization.

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, empirical analysis, calibration, theoretical modelling, and quantitative simulations.

Qualifications and Skills:
· Ph.D. degree in Economics with a 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 innovation activities, and firm-level productivity distribution.
· To have computer programming skills for cleaning firm-to-firm data, empirical estimations, calibration, and quantitative simulations.