It covers the life-cycle of PhD economics research, from identifying a promising project to producing research outputs such as a job market paper, through 7 lectures by leading European researchers.
Our book based on the lectures, The BESTEPS Guide, is freely available and can be downloaded below.
Lecture Programme
Part I: Set Up A Research Project
Part II: Research Products
The BESTEPS Guide
Based on the lectures, Anna Chesa and I edited The BESTEPS Guide: 7 Lessons towards Effective Economics PhD Research, available as a public good.
The Guide walks through every key stage of economics research: understanding the research process and products, choosing a feasible project, working reproducibly, visualizing data and results, giving academic talks, and crafting a job market paper.
See a detailed introduction in the news release by the UB School of Economics.
We are grateful to the following early-career economists from various institutions for reviewing the draft and providing valuable feedback: Bastian Bruestle (Zurich), Haochi Chen (Dublin), Zhenghao Chen (UCL), Alessandro Ciardo (Barcelona), Britta Hecker (IAB), Guillermo Martínez (CEMFI), Taoyi Sun (Purdue), Robert Wlodarski (Cambridge), and Jessie Ziyue Zhu (Maastricht).
Contributors
The BESTEPS project draws on the collective work of many people, a committed team of PhD colleagues alongside essential support from our administrative staff and faculty members.
Organizers and Proposal Contributors
- Daniel Favre de Nougera
- Sergio Blanco
- Marcella De Giovanni
- Sofia Balladares
- Natalia Carralero
- Elisa Muscarella
- Anna Chesa
- Ruixi Zhang
- Thompson Tawiah
- Marta Curull
- Marianna Magagnoli
- Alejandra Rivera
- Aly McTague
- Julia McGee
- Aayushi Sharma
- Enoch Ntsiful
- Juan Pascual
- Salvatore Viola
- Alessandro Ciardo
- Zhenning Han
Support from Faculty & Admin
- Cio Patxot
- Judit Vall
- Elisabet Viladecans
- Jordi Roca
- Judit Farre
- Ignasi Blanch