Market design search at WU Vienna's new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Science

 Ben Greiner writes to remind me that "Vienna is a beautiful place to live and work" and that there is a 27 July deadline for the first wave of recruiting for a new department, including two full professor slots for market designers.

" WU Vienna is establishing a new Department of Business Analytics and Decision Sciences, with a research focus on predictive and prescriptive analytics in support of data-informed strategic decision-making. This initiative reflects WU’s commitment to strengthening its academic profile at the intersection of analytics, artificial intelligence, and decision sciences.

As part of the department’s launch, approximately 24 new academic positions will be opened. These include 6 professorships, up to 6 tenure-track positions, 6 postdoctoral positions, and 6 pre-doctoral positions.

First call for professorships in June 2025

The first call launches on June 4, 2025 featuring 4 professorships.

These positions are distinguished by two different methodological orientations, with two different professorships per orientation:

• The first group focuses on candidates with a methodological focus on machine learning, symbolic or sub-symbolic AI (including deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative AI, and automated decision-making), or modern statistics and economicetrics.

• The second group focuses on candidates with a methodological focus in simulation, optimization, experimentation, algorithmic game theory, and/or market design.

To learn more about the call and application process, please visit the website for our job offerings.

 

Job search for Professor of Market Design: U. Mannheim and ZEW--Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research

Professor Achim Wambach writes with news of a job opening in market design:

Professor of Economics, Market Design (W3)
Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
 

"In a joint appointment process, the Department of Economics at the School of Law and Economics at the University of Mannheim and the ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim are looking to fill the position of

Professor of Economics, Market Design (W3).

The job holder will be assigned to the Centre for European Economic Research immediately upon her/his appointment. She/he will remain a member of the department with a reduced teaching obligation of two credit hours per term (so called Jülicher Modell). The position is permanent.

We are looking for an individual who, thanks to her/his outstanding scientific qualifications, will strengthen both institutions' competencies in the analysis of markets and market design. She/he has proven her/his expertise in the game-theoretical analysis of market rules with a particular focus on auction or matching markets. The successful candidate has an affinity to field experiments and applied research.

The job holder will lead the Research Department 'Market Design' at ZEW, conduct research in market design and publish this research in internationally leading academic journals. She/he will also be responsible for third-party fundraising. The successful candidate should have experience in policy-advising, particularly in the practical application of market design. The position requires a distinguished academic record, demonstrated by high-level publications in international economic journals, and ideally experience by leading policy advisory projects. The candidate should also possess the ability to lead larger research teams and to effectively communicate research findings to a broader audience, including policymakers and the general public."

Harvard's lawsuit against the Trump administration

 Read it and weep for our country:

"7. Defendants’ actions are unlawful. The First Amendment does not permit the Government to “interfere with private actors’ speech to advance its own vision of ideological balance,” Moody v. NetChoice, 603 U.S. 707, 741 (2024), nor may the Government “rely[] on the ‘threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion . . . to achieve the suppression’ of disfavored speech,” Nat’l Rifle Ass’n v. Vullo, 602 U.S. 175, 189 (2024) (citation omitted). The Government’s attempt to coerce and control Harvard disregards these fundamental First Amendment principles, which safeguard Harvard’s “academic freedom.” Asociacion de Educacion Privada de P.R., Inc. v. Garcia-Padilla, 490 F.3d 1, 8 (1st Cir. 2007). A threat such as this to a university’s academic freedom strikes an equal blow to the research conducted and resulting advancements made on its campus.
8. The Government’s actions flout not just the First Amendment, but also federal laws
and regulations. The Government has expressly invoked the protections against discrimination
contained in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a basis for its actions. Make no mistake: Harvard rejects antisemitism and discrimination in all of its forms and is actively making structural reforms to eradicate antisemitism on campus. But rather than engage with Harvard regarding those ongoing efforts, the Government announced a sweeping freeze of funding for medical, scientific, technological, and other research that has nothing at all to do with antisemitism and Title VI compliance. Moreover, Congress in Title VI set forth detailed procedures that the Government “shall” satisfy before revoking federal funding based on discrimination concerns. 42 U.S.C. § 2000d-1. Those procedures effectuate Congress’s desire that “termination of or refusal to grant or to continue” federal financial assistance be a remedy of last resort. Id. The Government made no effort to follow those procedures—nor the procedures provided for in Defendants’ own agency regulations—before freezing Harvard’s federal funding.
9. These fatal procedural shortcomings are compounded by the arbitrary and
capricious nature of Defendants’ abrupt and indiscriminate decision..."