NOVA PHD Summer School: The Empirics of Economic Organizations and Transaction Cost

Call for Applications 

The Value Chain Research Group at the Department of Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) organizes a NOVA PhD Summer School in Empirical Industrial Organization. This Summer School is one of a series of independent workshops that cover the main fields of the empirics of organizations and transaction costs. This PhD School will take place August 17 to 21, 2015, in Uppsala, Sweden.

You can find updated information on the summer school at http://novasummerschool.wordpress.com and the previous editions is available here).

PhD students and other interested researchers should submit a short CV and a one-page description of their research interest to jun.zhou.econ@gmail.com 

The Empirics of Economic Organizations and Transaction Costs 2015

Keynote speaker: Azzeddine Azzam (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)

Main lecturers:

Frode Alfnes (Norwegian University of Life Sciences )

Kostas Karantininis (SLU)

Jun Zhou (SLU)

Course Topics

structural estimation of differentiated-product oligopoly

structural estimation of bilateral oligopoly

structural estimation of monopsony with vertical integration/coordination

structural estimation of environmental regulation and industry structure

empirical analysis of market conclusion and merger
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structual estimation of market demand

Course fee

The Summer School on The Empirics of Economic Organizations and Transaction Costs seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of state of the art quantitative research in Industrial Organization with application to the agri-food sector. We invite applications from promising young scholars in the field.

The course is free for NOVA University Network students; 200 euros for BOVA University Network students and 300 euros for all the other students.

 To register for the course, the course fees should be paid by 28 April 2015. A refund of 50% of the fees is possible for candidates who withdraw their applications before 1 June 2015 (by written notification to jun.zhou.econ@gmail.com). Refunds are not possible for notification of withdraw that postdates 1 June 2015.

 Methods of payment will be updated soon on the web.

 The course has 3 ECTs.

Practical matters

The workshop will take place on August 17-21, 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.

The deadline for application is February 15, 2015. To be considered, please send your CV and description of research interest to jun.zhou.econ@gmail.com. Decisions will be notified by February 28. Detailed program will be announced by March 31.

Students from NOVA institutions will have some available funds to cover participants’ accommodation and travel expenses.

Workshop Organizers

Konstantinos Karantininis (SLU) and Jun Zhou (SLU)