Introduction

The University of Lausanne (UNIL) is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students. Its Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne) is one of Europe’s foremost centres of scientific research in economics. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.

Presentation

The position will be based at HEC Lausanne’s Department of Economics – a highly research-active group of currently 21 professors, 10 postdocs and some 40 PhD students, covering all main areas of economics (micro, macro and econometrics). The postdoctoral position will be funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, through the project “The Economics of Inheritance and Inter-Vivos Gifts”, coordinated by Marius Brülhart. Associated project researchers are Aurélien Eyquem (HEC Lausanne), Isabel Martínez (ETH Zurich) and Enrico Rubolino (...