The European Job Market for Economists (EJME) provides a forum for postgraduates to be interviewed by recruiting institutions from across Europe. The EJME is co-sponsored by the RES, the European Economic Association (EEA) and the Spanish Economic Society (AEE).
The RES provide the below “How to Prepare” webinar, but there are other suitable webinars available, you can read more here.
To help you prepare for the December virtual job market, the RES hosts an annual 1 hour webinar where you heard from hiring academics as well as new recruits.
The event was online with one recruiter and one recent recruit who covered:
The 2026 Webinar: How to Prepare for the EJME will take place on Wednesday 11 November.
University College London
Stephen Hansen is a research affiliate at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
He is also a professor of economics at University College London and a fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Before joining UCL he held positions at Imperial College London, the University of Oxford and Pompeu Fabra University. He has collaborated with policy institutions including the Bank of England, European Stability Mechanism and Inter-American Development Bank.
His research develops methods for measuring economic phenomena from text and other unstructured, high-dimensional data, with applications to monetary policy and firm behavior. This work has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies and Journal of Monetary Economics, and has been supported by European Research Council Consolidator and Proof-of-Concept Grants.
He maintains a GitHub page with code and lecture slides on methods for unstructured and high-dimensional data and co-organizes the monthly AMLEDS webinar on economic applications of machine learning.
He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2009.
University of Manchester
Karim Chalak is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Manchester. His research areas are econometric theory, applied econometrics, and causal inference.
Karim’s work develops econometric methods for causal inference in environments in which agents interact under uncertainty and when data on key variables are omitted or measured with error. He has applied these new methods in various contexts, including to measure the financial return to education and the black-white wage gap; the returns to college selectivity and characteristics; the effects of cash flow on the investment, saving, and debt of corporate firms; the relation between the rates of firearm ownership and homicide; and the bias in US tariff structure toward swing-state industries. Karim’s publications appear in leading economics, econometrics, and artificial intelligence journals.
Prior to joining the University of Manchester, Karim served on the faculty of Boston College, the University of Virginia, and the University of Montreal, and held visiting positions at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Oxford, and University College London. He received a B.A. with high distinction from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.
University of Southampton
Dr. Monica Beeder is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Southampton. Her research lies at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and the economics of conflict and crime, with a particular focus on how institutions, labour markets, and conflict shape individual behaviour and economic outcomes. She completed her PhD in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in the fall of 2024 and joined the University of Southampton after going on the academic job market.
University of Southampton
Dr. Monica Beeder is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Southampton. Her research lies at the intersection of development economics, political economy, and the economics of conflict and crime, with a particular focus on how institutions, labour markets, and conflict shape individual behaviour and economic outcomes. She completed her PhD in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) in the fall of 2024 and joined the University of Southampton after going on the academic job market.
The 2022 webinar is available here.
The 2021 webinar – You can view this webinar here.
During the EJME 2021, the RES hosted a virtual workshop on getting published, you can watch a recording of this workshop.
The 2020 webinar can be viewed by members here on our website.
