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Scholarships
UBS Center Scholarships
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Quick Facts
Level of study:
PhD candidates
Offered:
Annually
Number of awards:
3 (for entry in September 2016)
Value:
Approx. CHF 42,500 p.a. plus tuition fees
Duration:
4 years
Closing date:
January 31, 2016
For more information, please visit
www.ubscenter.uzh.chNew UBS Scholarship holders 2015
The UBS International Center welcomes two
promising international students as this year’s
UBS Center Scholarship holders. They were
selected from several hundred applicants to
the Zurich Graduate School of Economics,
with the school’s international reputation
attracting students from around the world.
Emanuele DiCarlo and Michael Stiefel started their
doctoral studies in September 2015. We wish them
great success for their ongoing studies.
Emanuele DiCarlo
obtained both his Bachelor and
Master degrees in "Economics and Social Sciences"
at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy.
He was granted the Bocconi Graduate Merit Award
in 2012. Within the scope of an exchange program,
Emanuele studied one semester at the New York
University, USA. He is 25 years old and gained first
work experience as a short-term consultant with the
World Bank in Milan, where he participated in a
research project on Employment and Wage Polariza-
tion in Latin American Countries. His main research
interests focus on microeconometrics, labor markets,
and industrial organizations.
Michael Stiefel
completed the Enter double-degree in
Economic Research with a first Master of Science in
Economics from the University of Mannheim, Ger-
many, and a second Master in Economic Theory and
Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Econom-
ics, France. He also studied one semester at the
University of Warwick, England, in the scope of the
Erasmus exchange program. Michael is 26 years old
and collected some work experience at the actuarial
and risk management department of a German
health insurance company. His research interests
include macroeconomics and the intersection to
financial economics.