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Being a graduate student at ECARES

Useful information Li Chen, Andrea Colombo, Ela Ince

ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles

September 9, 2014

Welcome to ECARES!

ECARES is Université Libre de Bruxelles and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management The “Bosses”: Bram de Rock and Domenico Giannone Doctoral training and PhD

◮ Director: Estelle Cantillon and David Veredas

MA in Quantitative Economics

◮ Director: Domenico Giannone and Micael Castanheira

MA in Statistics

◮ Director: Maarten Jansen and Siegfried Hormann

The R42 building

◮ professors, post-docs, staff, most of the classrooms. . . and the TGIF

The H building

◮ PhD students and TAs ◮ ECARES, CEB, DULBEA, iCite

PhD timeline

As a rule of thumb, this is the typical PhD timeline: Year 1 and 2: coursework (Master) Year 3 to 5: writing phase (Doctoral training and Doctorate) Year 5 or 6: job market Then there are excpetions. . .

Master programs

The first step towards the PhD

MA Quantitative Economics MA in Statistics Econometrics 1 & 2 Econometrics 1 & 2 Microeconomics 1 & 2 Microeconomics 1 & 2 Macroeconomics 1& 2 Macroeconomics 1& 2 Topics in mathematics Stochastic Models Research methods Statistics Dynamic optimization Time Series Analysis I Total: 60 ECTS Total: 60 ECTS Research seminar Seminars Electives Electives Master dissertation Master disseration Total: 60 ECTS Total: 60 ECTS Total: 120 ECTS Total: 120 ECTS

PhD Program

Admission

In order to be admitted to the PhD program you need:

1 To have the knowledge provided by the Master programs 2 To have achieved a minimum of 12 (out of 20) in all courses and at

least 14 (out of 20) in average.

3 To be supervised by an ECARES fellow. ◮ co-supervision possible under certain constraints

If the first criterium above is not fulfilled Enrollement in the Master (120ECTS) or in the second year of the Master (60ECTS)

PhD program

Structure and requirements

The PhD program is structured in: Doctoral research training

◮ 40ECTS you gain with academic activities (presentation at conferences,

seminars, advanced courses, visiting,. . . )

◮ 20ECTS from successful intermediate evaluation ◮ Leading to “Certificat de formation à la recherche”

Doctorate

◮ Thesis expected to be completed in at most 3-4 years

PhD program

Seminars

Fundamental for both your PhD life and for increasing ECARES’s research quality are the seminars Tuesday (economics) Thursday (econometrics) Friday (internal) You may also want to book a time-slot with a seminar’s speaker in order to talk about your research Contact Claude Adan

Funding & Office

There are six main ways of getting funding: Teaching In-house funding (mini-ARC) (deadline: February 2015) FNRS (deadline: February 2015) FRESH (deadline: September 2015) Private scholarships (check the ECARES webiste) Your own supervisor Offices are primarily reserved to students with a TA position or with funding.

Going abroad/entrepreneurship

What we learnt from those who introduced us to the graduate school: “entrepreneurship is key to success”. Meaning: Meet experts in your field (for example, after the seminars. . . ) Search for data Plan a stay abroad

◮ ENTER network ⋆ Toulouse ⋆ Barcelona ⋆ UCLondon ⋆ Stockholm ⋆ Madrid ⋆ Mannheim ⋆ Tilburg ◮ Philip Verwimp is the professor in charge for the ENTER Network. ◮ Research visits in other universities (U.S.) are also possible ⋆ depends on your supervisor’s network ⋆ you can find more info on “Mobilités OUT”

Other details you should know

The ECARES website (www.ecares.org), for all the other information MonULB: your grades, your email, latest from the ULB GeHol: the schedule of your courses The catalogue des cours:

◮ MA quantitative economics (ECON4R1 and ECON5R) ◮ MA economics and statistics (STAT4A and STAT5A) ◮ MA economics - Analysis (ECON4P and ECON5P1)

The administrative angels

If you are in (administrative) troubles, just contact them: ECARES, MA in Quantitative Economics and PhD Program

◮ Claude Adan (cadan@ulb.ac.be) - she speaks italian!

MA in Economics and Statistics

◮ Patricia Semeraro (psemerar@ulb.ac.be)

Thank you for your attention. Any questions?