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The Industrial Scoreboard provides data on business R&D spending by country, industry and year of headquartered companies: https://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php/scoreboard/2023-eu-industrial-rd-investment-scoreboard#field_data

OECD data provide data on territorial business R&D spending by country, industry and year: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/datasets/research-and-development-statistics.html

If headquartered > territorial local businesses must be spending for R&D elsewhere. Else, foreign businesses must be spending in R&D from abroad. 

The project includes two deliverables:

1. Merge the Industrial Scoreboard to OECD data at the country-industry-year level (merge m:1). This will require to define industries in a way that are compatible across the two datasets. All values should be expressed in the same units i.e., millions of current euros. All steps should be carefully documented in a separate dataset documentation (80%).
2. Collapse the dataset by summing the values of the Scoreboard companies by country, industry and year. Take the ratio of headquartered to territorial R&D spending by country and industry and produce charts to visualize the results (20%). 

Expected completion time: 2 months. 

Interested candidates should send CV and cover letter explaining why they are interested and how they would tackle the project.

Most analysis of past industrial policies are about success stories. Much less is known about past failures.

The scope of this project is compiling a list of prominent cases of failure of past industrial policies e.g. Concorde, in as many industries as possible, trying to identify common elements. 

The analysis can be qualitative, although quantitative evidence is clearly desirable.

The first deliverable is a preliminary draft after 2-4 weeks. The second deliverable is the final draft, due 2 months after the start of the project.

Expected completion time: 2 months. Successful completion of the project could also lead to further collaboration for students interested in writing their dissertation on related topics.

Interested candidates should send CV and cover letter explaining why they are interested and how they would tackle the project.

The European Commission currently finances 9 Joint Undertakings: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021/11/19/council-commits-to-nine-institutionalised-european-partnerships/

The scope of this project is to examine their operations and governance. We want to answer two key sets of questions: 

1) What kind of projects do they finance? Are funds devoted to young firms? Do they finance high-tech projects or mature technologies? Do they fund research institutions? 

2) Who is responsible for selecting the projects? Are they members of the business community or scientists? Do their CV reflect adequate competences?

Expected completion time: 4-6 months. Successful completion of the project could also lead to further collaboration for students interested in writing their dissertation on related topics.

Interested candidates should send CV and cover letter explaining how they would tackle the project, providing details on each step and in what way they would codify the information in a manner suitable for quantitative analysis.

The Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University (IEP) combines the analytic rigor of a research institute, the policy impact of a think tank, and the facts-based effort of raising public opinion’s awareness about Europe through outreach activities. Despite its young age, IEP’s work has had a strong influence in policymaking. One example is the recent Draghi report on competitiveness, where IEP’s work has been extensively cited.

We are looking for a graduate student in Economics, preferably close to completion of their PhD, to assist the IEP Director, Daniel Gros.

The successful candidate will be strongly interested in policy issues and have a good understanding of the functioning of the European Union. 

Tasks will include data collection, analysis and drafting on multiple themes in a timely manner, in line with the fast-changing policy environment in Brussels and abroad. 

The successful candidate is expected to co-author reports and policy briefs that are regularly published on IEP website, and possibly participate in related academic projects with a longer time horizon.

IEP values diversity and inclusion, and it especially encourages female candidates to apply.

Research Project: The postdoctoral researcher's activities will contribute to the Institute for European Policymaking @ Bocconi University's (IEP@BU) mission: conduct, debate and disseminate high quality research on the major policy issues facing the European Union in a rapidly changing world. In particular, the postdoctoral researcher will contribute to and complement the ongoing work on environmental issues conducted by researchers affiliated to IEP@BU, on topics such as: the exploration of socioecological transition scenarios that may unfold in the next years and decades; the development of appropriate tools and methodologies to assess the economic and financial implications of such scenarios; the assessment of potential responses that the EU and its Member States could develop in response to the vulnerabilities identified, in particular in the eventuality of an increasingly geoeconomically fragmented world.

Deadline: July 14 2024

- Her/his main duties shall entail:
- to contribute to an assessment of the work done at EU level (including directives/regulations adopted since 2019 on climate / nature conservation / deforestation), in order to produce a collective policy paper;
- to follow the ongoing debate / the future proposals of the EC on climate / transition / biodiversity, with a systematic monitoring of the debates in thinks tanks and media’s
- to contribute to the drafting of the policy paper.

We welcome applications from students from any area of research, law included. The contract would be of 6 months and the successful candidate will work closely with the Institute's Vice-President, Sylvie Goulard. Short listed candidates will be contacted for an interview with the research team.

The candidate is expected to be familiar with National Account statistics, industry/product classifications (e.g. NACE, ISIC, HS, etc.), and international trade data (e.g. Comtrade). Knowledge of Excel and data visualization skills in STATA, R or others are essential; modelling skills and/or Python are a plus.

Project: identifying the changes to the material Constitution of EU, deriving from the management of recent crisis (Immigration, pandemics, geopolitical challenges, included the war in Ukraine, the Euro crisis), with a focus on the EU Commission and European Council. The project is expected to put forward concrete reform proposals for European governance. DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 9th, 2024!!!
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Project: Building and development of the sustainability pillar of the Institute, in collaboration with the BU fellows and academia, with a focus on climate issues as well as nature related issues to shape the policy of IEP@BU. Production of research and policy papers on the European sustainability issues.

Project: Analysis of the factors that drive economic productivity, especially across EU. Special emphasis will be given to the implementation of policies deemed useful to boost intra EU productivity, especially if modeled around automation and innovation, peculiar features in the postpandemic world.
 

Project: Analysis, both from a policy evaluation and a policy modeling point of view of the connections between education, training and labor market, with a focus on intra-EU migration and school-to-work transition, taking into account the relevant factors that concern EU and it continuous integration.