The Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Milan, Italy, has opened a 1-year post-doc position in the areas of mathematics and statistics on the following research theme Inference for CO-GARCH processes: theory and numerical implementation The research activities of the candidate are indicated as follows 1) Development of statistical tools for parametric estimation and model selection discretely observed CO-GARCH processes; 2) R language implementation of simulation and estimation techniques for CO-GARCH processes; 3) Writing of research papers and release of the corresponding open-source software. The successful candidate should have solid bases on mathematical statistics, stochastic processes and good knowledge of the R programming language. The deadline for the application is 23-feb-2012 Further details are available here (in italian) http://www.unimi.it/ricerca/assegni_ricerca/2780.htm or asked directly to stefano.iacus at unimi.it ----------------------------------- Stefano M. Iacus Department of Economics, Business and Statistics University of Milan Via Conservatorio, 7 I-20123 Milan - Italy Ph.: +39 02 50321 461 Fax: +39 02 50321 505 http://www.economia.unimi.it/iacus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments if not absolutely necessary. See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html