Department of Business Statistics & Econometrics, Guanghua School of Management atPekingUniversityis seeking candidates for two tenure-track assistant professor positions in Econometrics. Ph.D in Econometrics or Statistics with a good concentration of econometrics is required. Other requirements for these positions are a strong research background and potentials, excellent communication skills and an interest in teaching. Teaching MBA courses is expected, and teaching is conducted in Mandarin.

The Guanghua School of Management at Peking University is a leading business school in China. Information about the school can be found athttp://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn. The School offers competitive salary and benefit packages and outstanding research support.

Candidates should submit CV, and representative research papers, and three recommendation letters, to be received inDecember, 2008. CONTACT: Recruiting Committee, c/o Ms. Junhua Xu, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China 100871. Tel: 8610 6275 4846. Email: xujh@gsm.pku.edu.cn.

For other information related to the position and the department, please send your e-mail to: Prof. Song Xi Chen (songchen@iastate.edu) or Prof. Hansheng Wang (hansheng@gsm.pku. edu.cn) or visithttp://www.gsm.pku.edu.cn/

Financial Support

• The school is trying all the best to pay competitively at an international standard. Typically, the annual salary of an assistant professor starts at about 320,000 RMB.

• The school offers a generous re-location package of 350,000 RMB consist of a settle-down allowance of 150,000 RMB plus a lump-sum of 200,000 RMB for housing purchase.

• A start-up research grant of 50,000RMB per year is available for the first two years.

• In addition to that, for any research grant received from well-recognized national research institute (e.g., Nature Science Foundation of China, NSFC), school matches 50% up to 100,000RMB. This means if you receive a 200,000RMB grant from NSFC, the school will award you another 100,000RMB research grant as bonus. Various other smaller scale research grants are also available.

• The school pay generous bonus for any publication on a journal cited by SCI. Currently, the highest bonus for one single author publication in Annals, Biometrika, JASA, or JRSSB can be as high as 60,000 RMB per article.

• To encourage faculties to attend international conference, the school pays for every regular faculty 2,000 USD per year for attending any academic conference and/or workshop outside of mainland China. Mini travel grants might also be available from the department for attending domestic conferences.

• One-year sabbatical leave can be arranged for faculties having served school for a total of five years. Alternatively, half-year sabbatical leave is also possible for faculties after serving school for three years.