The Department of Economics at the University of Verona advertises PhD
Research Scholarships for foreign applicants for the academic year 2008-09.

The Doctoral Program in Economics and Finance is designed to train doctoral
candidates in a broad range of advanced studies for careers in teaching and
research in universities, in public and private research organizations, in
financial and consulting institutions and private companies. The department
recruits promising students from Italy and abroad with courses taught in
English. Students are accepted directly for PhD degree. As prerequisite,
students must hold a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in
Italy or the equivalent level of education from an institution outside
Italy.

Some areas of research interests of the Economics program are welfare
economics, development economics and economics of inequality. In particular
the Doctorate Program organizes international winter and summer schools on
these subjects (see http://dse.univr. it/it/ and http://dse.univr. it/ssef/) .

The internationalizatio n program, financed by the Italian Ministry of
University and Research and the University of Verona, has lead in the recent
years to exchange agreements with the universities of Essex, York,
Wisconsin, Cergy-Pontoise, Cyprus, Oviedo, Campinas and Colombia.

Depending on research interests students may however undertake period of
research in other international institutions benefiting in this case from a
50% increase of the scholarship up to 18 months.

The deadline for sending the official application by mail is Monday
September 15.

For further information including the link to the Call for Application
please visit the following web-site:  http://dse.univr. it/dottorato

In the Call for Application you can also find all relevant information on
the general rules of the Doctorate Programme (including information on
scholarships) and the detailed list of requirements for each Programme (for
Economics and Finance see page 27 of Attachment 1 of the Call for
Applications) . Please note that, when filling the application form, you may
apply both to the Doctoral Program in Economics and Finance and to the two
international scholarships. The international scholarships for our PhD
Programme will be allocated separately from the general scholarships (see
page 28 Attachment 1 of the Call for Applications) .

The final stage of evaluation involves an interview in English that will
take place in Verona on  October 8 (see Attachment 1 of the Call for
Applications) .

For any further enquiry please contact admissions@dse. univr.it

Yours sincerely,

Claudio Zoli, Eugenio Peluso

Department of Economics
University of Verona