Tenure-Track Position in Applied Econometrics – Big Data Information

TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN APPLIED ECONOMETRICS – BIG DATA

INFORMATION FOR APPLICANTS

JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITÄT LINZ Altenberger Straße 69 4040 Linz, Österreich www.jku.at DVR 0093696

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1. Research ...... 3 2. Teaching ...... 3 3. Infrastructure ...... 3 The Department of Economics offers an environment with an excellent teaching and research infrastructure (including an access to supercomputing and collaborations with providers of administrative data)...... 3 4. Additional Requirements ...... 3 5. Tenure Agreement ...... 3 6. Attachment 1: Requirement for Habilitation or tenure-track decision ...... 4 7. Attachment 2: Guidelines of the Qualification Agreement of Tenure-Track Positions – Department of Economics (VWL) - JKU Linz ...... 8

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1. Research

The jobholder is expected to conduct research in the area of Economics/Applied Econometrics at the highest international standard and to publish in leading peer-reviewed journals.

2. Teaching

The Department is involved in the following academic degree programs: Bachelor, Master and PhD in Economics as well as Bachelor and Master in Business.

The majority of these courses are taught in English, the proportion of international students is high.

The position includes teaching obligations equivalent to 4 academic hours per semester as an Assistant Professor, after tenure, the usual teaching load increases to 8 hours per week.

The successful candidate should have the following teaching qualifications:

- Teaching experience at the Bachelor, Master, and/or Doctoral level at renowned universities or other academic institutions in English or German language (excellent course evaluations expected). - Experience in supervising academic theses and in holding academic examinations. - International teaching experience is desired.

3. Infrastructure

The Department of Economics offers an environment with an excellent teaching and research infrastructure (including an access to supercomputing and collaborations with providers of administrative data).

4. Additional Requirements

The successful candidate should have the following additional qualifications:

- Excellent command of spoken and written English. - High motivation, team spirit, and strong communication skills.

The department is very interested in an active researcher who is willing to cooperate and interact with the other members of the department and the university.

5. Tenure Agreement

The position will initially be limited to a period of 6 years. Job holders will be offered a tenure (qualification) agreement if the academic performance suggests that the required high qualification can be reached. If the requirements of the agreement are met, employment will be continued for an indefinite period as a tenured Associate Professor. Promotion to Full Professorship is possible in a simplified procedure.

The following attachments describe the evaluation criteria of the first and second step:

 Requirement for Habilitation or tenure-track decision  Guidelines of the Qualification Agreement of Tenure-Track Positions – Department of Economics (VWL) - JKU Linz

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6. Attachment 1: Requirement for Habilitation or tenure-track decision

(Version: Institutskonferenz, 31-05-2017)

The candidate should have published in excellent journals in a large amount before becoming awarded the habilitation. That means that the candidate`s quality of research needs to be in such a quality and extent that a different University could hire him or her for a full professorship.

The following three qualifications are the minimum requirements referring to the evaluation of the candidate`s research quality: 1. At least seven refereed publications are present which are clearly independent of their content and the candidate is an author or co-author of those. If two or more A and B publications are present then only 6 refereed publications are necessary. Publications in different journals are seen with higher value. However, publications in the same journal are also accepted. 2. Either  at least one paper is published in category B (or higher) and three further publications are in category C (or higher) or  at least five papers are published in category C. 3. At least one of those seven refereed publications must be a single author publication.

Forthcoming articles are evaluated as already published papers. If the candidate does not meet the research quality minimum requirements the application for a habilitation is not advisable. Generally, the members of the department of economies will see the research quality as not fulfilled as long as the minimum requirements are not met. However, the final decision of awarding a habilitation is made by the habilitation commission.

APPENDIX: Journal Classification:

The journal classification is based on the Handelsblatt ranking of the year 2015. However, only the typical top five A journals are ranked as category A. All other journals with a „HB-Gewicht VWL 2015“ between 1 and 0.6 were ranked in the B category. The category C contains all journals with a „HB- Gewicht VWL 2015“ between 0.3 and 0.2.

Based on Combes, P.-P. and Linnemer, L. „Inferring Missing Citations: A quantitative multi-criteria ranking of all journals in economics“, 2010, the two leading journals of economic subfields were classified as C.

NOTE: The previous version of the journal classification applies to all articles, which were submitted and accepted before 31. Mai 2017.

Category A These journals are highly valued by the profession.

American Economic Review (without Papers & Proceedings) Econometrica

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Journal of Political Economy Quarterly Journal of Economics Review of Economic Studies

Category B

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics American Economic Journal: Economic Policy American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics American Economic Journal: Microeconomics American Political Science Review Annals of Statistics Economic Journal European Economic Review Games and Economic Behavior International Economic Review International Organization Journal of Accounting and Economics Journal of Business and Economic Statistics Journal of Business Journal of Econometrics Journal of Economic Theory Journal of Finance Journal of Financial Economics Journal of Health Economic Journal of International Economics Journal of Labor Economics Journal of Monetary Economics Journal of Public Economics Journal of the American Statistical Association Journal of the European Economic Association Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B Statistical Methodology Management Science RAND Journal of Economics Review of Economics and Statistics Review of Financial Studies Statistical Science Nature (without Letters) Science (without Letters)

Category C (Journals in Handelsblatt with ranking of 0.3 und 0.2)

Accounting Review American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings American Journal of Agricultural Economics Annals of Applied Probability Annals of Applied Statistics Bernoulli

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Biometrika Demography Econometric Theory Economic Theory Economics Letters Finance and Stochastics Health Economics Health Services Research Industrial and Labor Relations Review International Journal of Industrial Organization Journal of Accounting Research Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of Banking and Finance Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Consumer Research Journal of Development Economics Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Journal of Economic Growth Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Journal of Human Resources Journal of Industrial Economics Journal of International Money and Finance Journal of Law and Economics Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Journal of Marketing Research Journal of Marketing Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society Journal of Urban Economics Marketing Science Mathematical Finance Population and Development Review Research Policy Review of Economic Dynamics Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Transportation Research Part B: Methodological Water Resources Research World Development Advances in Applied Probability Agricultural Economics California Management Review Cambridge Journal of Economics Canadian Journal of Economics China Quarterly China Economic Review Contemporary Accounting Research/Recherche Comptable Contemporaine

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Ecological Economics Econometric Reviews Economic Development and Cultural Change Economic Inquiry Economica Economics of Education Review Economy and Society Education Economics Electronic Journal of Statistics Environment and Planning / A Environmental and Resource Economics European Financial Management European Journal of Political Economy Explorations in Economic History Experimental Economics Financial Management Industrial and Corporate Change Insurance: Mathematics and Economics International Journal of Production Economics Journal of Common Market Studies Journal of Comparative Economics Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Corporate Finance Journal of Development Studies Journal of Economic Geography Journal of Economic History Journal of Economic Literature Journal of Economic Perspectives Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Journal of Empirical Finance Journal of Evolutionary Economics Journal of Financial Econometrics Journal of Financial Intermediation Journal of Financial Markets Journal of International Business Studies JIBS Journal of Legal Studies° Journal of Mathematical Economics Journal of Monetary Economics issues on the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy Journal of Peace Research Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Journal of Population Economics Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C Applied Statistics Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics Journal of Transport Economics and Policy Labour Economics Land Economics

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Macroeconomic Dynamics Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Oxford Economic Papers New Series PharmacoEconomics Psychometrika Public Administration Review Public Choice Quantitative Finance Real Estate Economics Regional Science and Urban Economics Regional Studies Review of Accounting Studies Review of Finance Review of Income and Wealth Review of International Economics Scandinavian Journal of Economics Social Science Quarterly Statistica Sinica Statistics and Decisions Technometrics Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Urban Studies World Bank Economic Review World Economy Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Category D This category contains all journals with a recognised referee process (candidates have to prove that if necessary).

Journals, which are not on this list, are firstly assigned to category D if there is no evaluation of these journals. However, a participant can require to assign a journal in a higher category before he submits his/her paper to such journal if it is closely related to economics (for instance Nature, Science, interdisciplinary, psychological, sociological or journals of political science). The advisor/head on department is in charge of such recategorization. The categorizations has to be based on rankings of the respective field and journals need to be always ranked one category lower (for instance if a sociological journal is ranked as B the journal has to be ranked as C in this guideline).

7. Attachment 2: Guidelines of the Qualification Agreement of Tenure-Track Positions – Department of Economics (VWL) - JKU Linz

(Decided IK 31.5.2017)

The guidelines are based on the habilitation qualifications of the department of economics at the JKU. However, these guidelines are stricter because a full professorship is granted after meeting these qualification guidelines.

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1. Teaching: The candidate takes part in the teaching at the institute with respect to the demand of the degree programs. In addition, the participant also acts as an advisor for theses. The candidate must provide his/her teaching evaluations, which need to be good. Teaching on an excellent level is of high interest to the department. 2. Functions at the Institute: The candidate positively influences the culture of the institute and is actively involved in the administration, public communication of the institute and has research cooperation with institute members. The department wishes that the candidate is actively involved in the activities of the institute and acts in favor of the institute. 3. Research: Publications in excellent, international journals as well as international visibility is necessary. As research output cannot be not fully evaluated in a bibliometric sense, we propose the following guidelines for an orientation of the research activities: The following guideline will be applied to evaluate the research quality of the candidate: a) At least 10 refereed publications are present which are clearly independent of their content and the candidate is an author or co-author of those. b) At least one of the 10 publications is a single authored publication c) At least two publications are published in a journal of category A and B; and at least five publications are published in category C journal.

It might be reasonable to substitute a A and B journal with a C journal; however such a substitution is not granted in advance. These guidelines are based on a post PhD period of 8 years and can be adapted if a shorter time period is applicable. An adaption of a) is also possible if the candidate has a high amount of A and B publications.

APPENDIX: Journal Classification:

The journal classification is based on the Handelsblatt ranking of the year 2015. However, only the typical 5 A journals are ranked as category A and the other A journals are classified as category B. All journals which occur in this list are journals with a review process.

In line with Combes, P.-P. and Linnemer, L. „Inferring Missing Citations: A quantitative multi-criteria ranking of all journals in economics“, 2010, all leading journals of economics subfields were classified as C . The four new American Economic Journals were classified as B.

Category A These journals are most highly valued by the profession.

American Economic Review (without Papers & Proceedings) Econometrica Journal of Political Economy Quarterly Journal of Economics Review of Economic Studies

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Category B

Category C (Journals ranked with 0,3 und 0,2 in the Handelsblatt Ranking)

Accounting Review American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings American Journal of Agricultural Economics Annals of Applied Probability Annals of Applied Statistics Bernoulli Biometrika Demography Econometric Theory

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Economic Theory Economics Letters Finance and Stochastics Health Economics Health Services Research Industrial and Labor Relations Review International Journal of Industrial Organization Journal of Accounting Research Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of Banking and Finance Journal of Conflict Resolution Journal of Consumer Research Journal of Development Economics Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Journal of Economic Growth Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Journal of Human Resources Journal of Industrial Economics Journal of International Money and Finance Journal of Law and Economics Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization Journal of Marketing Research Journal of Marketing Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society Journal of Urban Economics Marketing Science Mathematical Finance Population and Development Review Research Policy Review of Economic Dynamics Scandinavian Journal of Statistics Transportation Research Part B: Methodological Water Resources Research World Development Advances in Applied Probability Agricultural Economics California Management Review Cambridge Journal of Economics Canadian Journal of Economics China Quarterly China Economic Review Contemporary Accounting Research/Recherche Comptable Contemporaine Ecological Economics Econometric Reviews Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Economic Inquiry Economica Economics of Education Review Economy and Society Education Economics Electronic Journal of Statistics Environment and Planning / A Environmental and Resource Economics European Financial Management European Journal of Political Economy Explorations in Economic History Experimental Economics Financial Management Industrial and Corporate Change Insurance: Mathematics and Economics International Journal of Production Economics Journal of Common Market Studies Journal of Comparative Economics Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics Journal of Corporate Finance Journal of Development Studies Journal of Economic Geography Journal of Economic History Journal of Economic Literature Journal of Economic Perspectives Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Journal of Empirical Finance Journal of Evolutionary Economics Journal of Financial Econometrics Journal of Financial Intermediation Journal of Financial Markets Journal of International Business Studies JIBS Journal of Legal Studies° Journal of Mathematical Economics Journal of Monetary Economics issues on the Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy Journal of Peace Research Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Journal of Population Economics Journal of Risk and Uncertainty Journal of the European Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C Applied Statistics Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics Journal of Transport Economics and Policy Labour Economics Land Economics Macroeconomic Dynamics Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics Oxford Economic Papers New Series

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PharmacoEconomics Psychometrika Public Administration Review Public Choice Quantitative Finance Real Estate Economics Regional Science and Urban Economics Regional Studies Review of Accounting Studies Review of Finance Review of Income and Wealth Review of International Economics Scandinavian Journal of Economics Social Science Quarterly Statistica Sinica Statistics and Decisions Technometrics Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice Urban Studies World Bank Economic Review World Economy Journal of Evolutionary Economics

The journal list might be updated in reasonable time interval

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