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Pre-doctoral Researcher / Ph.D. Student, University of Antwerp, Belgium

The University of Antwerp is a knowledge centre with 3.400 co-workers that performs ground-breaking and innovative research of international standing. The university takes special care to ensure optimum support and supervision of students, and pays constant attention to educational innovation. The university is an autonomous pluralistic institution that is committed to the enhancement of an open, democratic and multicultural society, and it pursues an equal opportunities policy.

The university recruit a full time vacancie (m/f) at the Department of Accounting and Finance of Faculty of Applied Economic Sciences

pre-doctoral researcher / Ph.D. student
for a research project on Business groups, political connections and institutions: a long-term analysis
funded by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research.

Job description:
The project takes a long-term perspective on the role of business groups. Using a unique database of Belgium listed companies over the 19th and 20th century and taking into account the evolution of institutions, we study how business groups affected company performance and how they used political connections to pursue the interests of their owners.

Profile:
You have:
* an MA in (Applied) Economics, Business Administration or equivalent;
* a strong academic record;
* an interest in financial history and a strong motivation to write a Ph.D. dissertation;
* an excellent knowledge of English and French; a good knowledge of Dutch is a plus.

We offer:
an appointment as a full-time researcher, starting as soon as possible until 31 December 2010.

For further information, please contact Prof. Marc Deloof, email: Marc.DeLoof@ua.ac.be, tel. +32 3 220 41 69.
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