The EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION (EEA) is an international scientific body, with membership open to all persons involved or interested in economics. Individual membership of the EEA includes access to the Journal of the Economic Association (JEEA). Members can submit papers to JEEA for no fee. Members also have the right to submit a paper to the EEA annual congress and attend the event. 

BREAKING NEWS!

The EEA will launch the first European Job Market, on December 6 - 7 2018, in Naples, Italy. The Job Market will take place immediately after the Econometric Society Winter Meetings (ESWM). Participating candidates will be interviewed by institutions from all over Europe, including universities, business schools, research centres and central banks. This year's edition of the job market is organized in collaboration with the Centre for studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) and the University of Naples Federico II.

Please view this video to see what it is about AND SCROLL DOWN FOR FULL INFORMATION.
 

What is the Job Market?

The initiative follows the model of the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meetings and evolves in four phases:

1. Employers post job offers on a centralized platform and candidates submit their “packages” (constituted by their research output and reference letters). This occurs in October-early November.
2. Recruiters review the packages and form shortlists of candidates to be invited for a preliminary screening through face to face interviews.
3. The interview phase takes place in Naples on December 6-7, 2018. The EEA will facilitate the logistics by renting interview rooms in a number of hotels near the convention center, where the sessions (see below) for the Job Market students will take place, and setting up interview booths in the aforementioned convention center.
4. The candidates who pass the interview stage are invited for “flyouts” where they give seminars in the host institutions and meet with the local faculty. The preferred candidates are offered a job.

While most of the time on December 6 and 7 will be devoted to job interviews, the EEA has organized the following events:

• Social dinner (joint with ESWM): December 5, 20:00 onwards, Roof Garden, Royal-Continental Hotel, Via Partenope, 38/44, 80121, Naples
• Educational session “How to Present your Job Market Paper”: December. 6, 12:30-14:00, Centro Congressi Federico II.  Speakers: Oriana Bandiera and Kjetil Storesletten
• Invited lecture “Title TBA”: December 7, 11:30-13:00.  Speaker: Jean Tirole

These events are open to all who are registered as candidates and interviewing institutions.

Why a European Job Market?
Under the current system, some European institutions recruit in the US job market, some participate in the local job markets in Spain or in the UK, and many do not participate in any international job market. For the latter group, attending the existing markets is too costly relative to their perceived ability to identify candidates who would realistically accept a job.

A pan-European job market will provide a thicker and better functioning platform that can take advantage of economies of scale, move beyond national borders and make connections that would not otherwise happen.

The advantages will be:

a) Higher quality matches between candidates and European institutions. Employers will be able to interview a larger set of candidates and with a signal that these students are indeed serious applicants interested in working in Europe. A key gain will be to get more universities to hire on the international market.

b) Better placement of PhD students from European universities. While the very best students from the very best institutions would presumably still get offers through the ASSA job market, a large fraction of students would get access to jobs that they would not otherwise know about or be selected for.

We want to strive for the highest quality research we can achieve here in Europe - and one key way to do that is to have better matching of bright young economists with universities and research institutions.  As economists, we spend a lot of time analyzing markets and how to make them work better - now we’re turning our focus on better design for a market that is central to all of our professional lives - the EEA job market will provide a new impetus to the European economic research community, further stimulating cutting edge scientific work with great potential for impact.

Institutions Signed Up So Far....

The following institutions have committed to participate (in alphabetical order):

Universities

• Aarhus
• Aix-Marseille School of Economics
• Alicante
• American University of Beirut
• Amsterdam School of Economics 
• Bielefeld University
• Berlin (BERA: Humboldt Universität, Freie Universität, Technische Universität, WZB, DIW Berlin, Hertie School of Governance and ESMT)
• Bilkent, Ankara
• Bocconi, Milan
• Bologna
• Bonn
• Bristol
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Carlos III de Madrid
• Central European University, Budapest
• Cergy-Pontoise
• CERGE-EI (Prague)
• Collegio Carlo Alberto (Turin)
• Copenhagen
• Copenhagen Business School
• Düsseldorf (DICE)
• Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
• Econometric Institute at Erasmus University Rotterdam
• Economics School of Louvain
• Ensai (Ecole nationale de la statistique et de l’analyse de l’information)
• Exeter
• Glasgow
• Gothenburg
• Groningen
• Helsinki Graduate School of Economics
• Koç University
• KU Leuven
• Lancaster University Management School
• LMU Munich
• London School of Economics
• LUISS University Rome 
• Lund
• Manchester
• Mannheim
• Milan-Bicocca
• Naples Federico II
• National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow
• Navarra Center for International Development
• New York University Abu Dhabi
• Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
• Nottingham
• Nova School of Business and Economics
• Örebro University (School of Business)
• Oslo
• Padova
• Paris School of Economics
• Queen Mary University of London
• Rome Tor Vergata
• Sciences Po
• Surrey
• TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara
• Toulouse School of Economics
• Trinity College Dublin
• Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• University College Dublin, School of Economics 
• University College London
• University of Edinburgh, School of Economics 
• University of Milan
• Vienna
• Warwick
• York
• Zurich

Central Banks

• Bank of Italy
• Bank of Spain
• Banque de France
• Central Bank of Turkey
• Danmarks Nationalbank
• Deutsche Bundesbank
• European Central Bank
• Sveriges Riksbank

Research Centres

• Berlin (BERA: Humboldt Universität, Freie Universität, Technische Universität, WZB, DIW Berlin, Hertie School of Governance and ESMT)
• Bruegel, Brussels
• Center for Research in International Economics (CREI), Barcelona
• Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), Naples
• Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne
• Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), Rome
• IZA, Bonn
• RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
• The Swedish Institute for Social Research
• Tinbergen Institute
• ZEW, Mannheim

Private Sector

• Compass Lexecon
• E.CA Economics
• Goldman Sachs
• NERA Economic Consulting
• RBB Economics

How to Sign Up

If you are an INSTITUTION wishing to interview, please fill in the application form here and send it to admin@eeassoc.org asap:

If you are a Job Market candidate, please note that you have to be a member of the EEA to take part.
There are 2 ways to register:

(a) For current EEA student members: Through your EEA membership profile page. Please log in to your EEA membership page and click on JOB MARKET, which appears in the blue box on the right-hand side of webpage. Please follow the payment instructions 

(b) For expired student members or new members: Please choose the fee “One year Student membership (JEEA online access only plus registration to the 2018 Job Market)” on the membership category stage (for new members, this is here). By paying this fee, you automatically register for the Job Market.

All Job Market candidates should read the information here.

Advertising Positions and Sharing Materials for EEA Job Market
EEA's partner organization EconJobMarket.org (EJM) handles the search listings (job advertisements), the transmission of applications and letters of recommendation, and interview scheduling for the European Job Market. Therefore, it is used by students who are on the Job Market and institutions interviewing for available positions. Please download the info sheet here for full information.

Accommodation and Hotel Bookings

Participants will be responsible for their own accommodation arrangements.

There is a range of hotel accommodation in Naples suitable for all budgets. However, due to high demand in December, the EEA advise participants to make their reservation as early as possible. 

The EEA has blocked a number of rooms at the Royal Continental Hotel (one of the hotels that will be used for the interviews) at a reduced rate. To book the room, please download the booking form here and send it directly to the hotel (instructions are on the form). The hotel will then confirm your booking directly with you. Please note that there is a very limited number of rooms at the hotel available, and to take advantage of the reduced rate, bookings must be made by September 18.

Furthermore, there is very limited availability at the Hotel REX, at a reduced rate of €80. The EEA recommends that students at the Econometric Society Winter Meeting, planning to stay for the Job Market, book here. Full details can be found here

To find other hotels that are close to the Job Market locations (Federico II Congress Centre, Royal Continental Hotel and Hotel Meditteraneo), please zoom in on the Google map below and look for the hotel symbol (this has a bed on it).

Supporters
The EEA publicly thanks the Banca d'Italia, Unicredit Foundation and the ECB for their kind donations, which help make the 2018 Job Market possible. 

Resources for PhD candidates
The EEA has complied a guide for European Job Market candidates. Please click here to download it.