PhD positions at the Department of AgriculturalEconomics, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel(Germany)

The primary responsibility is the interdisciplinaryEU-research project “Advanced-_Eval, which developsand applies advanced methods for the ex ante und expost evaluation of EU-rural development policyprograms. The project focuses on the followingmethodological and theoretical re-search topics:

1. Agent-based modelling of the rural economy ascomplex social and economic system in-corporatingsocial network relations among agents.
2. Applied econometrics.
3. Political economy modelling of EU-Rural DevelopmentPolicy (EU-RD policy).
4. Simulation of Economic-Ecological Systems based ona multi-agent-model.

The PhD-candidates will be directly integrated into aninternational and interdisciplinary research teamwithin the EU-Project Advanced-_eval. A master’sdegree or a comparable university degree inagricultural or food economics; economics or socialscience; mathematical or computational economics isessential. Good knowledge in quantitative methods ofeconomics or social science.

Please send applications and accompanying documents inthe English language to the address below. Applicationhas to be received (deadline) by 31 July 2006.

For further information contact:
Prof. Dr. Dr. Christian Henning,
Institut fürAgrarökonomie,
Christian-Albrechts-University
24098 Kiel, Germany.
Web:http://www.uni-kiel.de/agrarpol/pages/de/euproject.html