Job Description

The Department of Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, invites applications to fill up to three tenure track positions at the assistant professor level beginning in September 2012. Candidates should have completed, or be close to completing, a doctorate by this date. The Department is interested in applicants with the capability to publish in leading journals and to provide high-quality teaching. We welcome applications from all areas of economics.

Application

Applications should be accompanied by a curriculum vitae, a statement about language skills, a sample of recent research and three letters of recommendation, and should be sent by e-mail (hard copies of the letters of recommendation will also be accepted) to the following e-mail address:
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If for some reason e-mail application is not possible, the candidates should submit their material to:

Salvador Ortigueira

Recruiting Committee Coordinator
Department of Economics
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
C./ Madrid, 126
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
SPAIN

Deadline and Selection Process

Applications must be received by November 15, 2011. Interviews will be conducted both at the ASSA Meetings in Chicago, and at the XXXVI SAEe Simposio de Análisis Económico in Malaga. Candidates planning to attend the latter should mention this in their cover letter because we prefer to interview there (there are fewer candidates). After the interviews, the Departament will invite some candidates for campus visits and seminars.

IMPORTANT: Once the review of candidates for assistant professor position is finished, the Department expects to have openings for one or two year visiting faculty beginning in September 2012. Visiting position review is expected to start on March 15, 2012. Applicants for the assistant professor positions who wish to be considered also for visiting positions are required to express their desire by e-mail no earlier than March 15, 2012.

Teaching

The normal teaching load is 4 sections per year, but special arrangements can be made for a number of reasons:

1. New faculty members are normally given a teaching reduction.

2. Teaching reductions are competitively assigned every year based on the publication record of the previous three years.

3. Teaching reductions can be assigned to faculty members who obtain research fellowships (such as Ramon y Cajal, Juan de la Cierva).

Undergraduate classes are on a Semester system with 3 hours of class per week for a total of 13 weeks. The first Semester begins at the beginning of September and ends before the end of December with exams taking place in January. The second Semester begins at the beginning of February and ends in mid May, with exams taking place immediately thereafter. Students who fail their exams in the regular exam sessions (February and May) are offered a second opportunity in late June.

Graduate classes are offered on a Quarter basis with exams taking place soon after classes end. Apart from final exams, there is also a Qualifying Exam in early September.

Language

Most undergraduate teaching is in Spanish, but some students enroll in the Bilingual Program and receive most of their instruction in English. These classes are reserved for new foreign faculty members to give them time to become accustomed with the language. There is no uniform deadline for being able to teach in Spanish. This is normally agreed upon on an individual basis, and depending on the difficulty that the new faculty members might have with learning Spanish (i.e., mostly, depending on their native language).

The University offers Spanish courses to foreign students, researchers and professors, and the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas offers good quality classes at very cheap rates.

Ph.D. classes are in English.

About the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is a public University that was founded in 1989. Undergraduate economics teaching started in 1990 and the Ph.D. Program in Economics in 1991. You can visit the information for foreign students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid page to find additional information.

The University has three Campuses. The Department of Economics is located in the Getafe Campus along with all Social Sciences and Law Faculties.

How to get to campus

The Department of Economics is located at the Getafe Campus. Look here for information on how to get to the Campus. Most of the Department offices are located in building 15.

Campus facilities

The Getafe Campus hosts the Social Sciences Library, which is well organized (access to databases is available through Internet) and offers a complete selection of professional journals. Being a new library, the stock of (especially, old) books and old issues of professional journals is somewhat restricted, but the option of interlibrary loans solves this problem.

Getafe Campus has a student residence which is occasionally used for Faculty accommodation (there are 10 relatively small one-bedroom apartments). It also has a Sports Center where a number of activities are organized.

Other facilities include a Bank branch, a travel agent, 3 cafeterias, a student store, and 3 copy centers.

The Department of Economics

Since its beginning, the Department of Economics has been distinguished by its international character. At the moment, faculty members represent 11 different nationalities. Some useful information about the history and perspectives of the department can be found here.

Research

An indication of faculty backgrounds and research interests, including selected recent publications, can be obtained in the personal webpages. The list also contains e-mail and telephone numbers of all faculty members, and you should feel free to contact any of them for additional information.

The Department has Regular Seminars and Workshops. The Departments of Business and Statistics also hold regular Seminars.

Faculty members have been very active in the last few years in organizing international conferences which received generous funding from Spanish and EU sources. The Department frequently hosts Visiting Professors from all over the world.

Support for research

Research funds are usually obtained by groups of Faculty members applying for both Spanish and EU grants. New faculty members are normally ensured a soft landing by other faculty members in their same area, who provide them with some initial travel funds. New faculty members are expected to file new research grant applications with the help of their colleagues. This informal and unstructured process has worked well until now.

Computer Facilities

Every faculty member is equipped with a computer (PC or Mac, depending on individual preferences) that is connected to nearby laser printers, but most faculty members have printers in their own offices. Faculty requests of individual software purchases are subject to budget constraints but have normally been fulfilled.

The Department of Economics can also provide access to a number of work stations (HP700, organized in a cluster and equipped with statistical software) and to a SuperComputer (HP CONVEX-SPP2000, intended for working in batch mode).

The Graduate Program

The Department of Economics manages the Ph.D. Program in Economics.

For information on Departments in related areas we refer you to their official links: Department of Business Economics and Department of Statistics.

About Madrid

Madrid SoftGuide is the best On-Line source in English we are aware of and contains a lot of information on transports, accommodation, culture, entertainment, eating, shopping and local classifieds that can give you a fair idea of life (and its cost) in Madrid. Another very good source in Spanish is Madrid LaNetro.

Where to live?

The basic choice to be made is: Downtown vs. Suburbs. Madrid has an ample offer of both types of accommodations (both for rent and for sale). Since quality of apartments and houses is far from being uniform, dedicating effort to search typically pays off.

More Information

For more information you may refer to the University home page.