Doctoral book (your name)
Promotor: (name)
Co-promotor: (if you have one, name)
2001-2002-… (Specify each academic year you are enrolled for the Doctoral
Program)
Title:
__________________________________________________________________________________
You have to collect minimally 1500 hours of study time. There are three main parts:
A) Courses to be followed, B) Compulsory research activities for which you have to have at least a
minimum number of hours and C) Additional research activities.
A. COURSES TO BE FOLLOWED
1. DOCTUM COLLOQIUM
If you have followed the Master of Advanced Studies in Economics programme in Leuven and you
succeeded (with “distinction”) you fill in here: “exemption”. If you did not follow the MASE. in Leuven,
you probably will have to follow some courses of the Master of Advanced Studies in Economics, depending
on your background. These courses have to be filled in here, together with your marks. The following table
is an example.
YEAR
2001-2002
...
COURSE
Advanced Barbecue Economics
...
TEACHER
Zenobe Zip
...
MARK
17
...
2. DOCTORAL COURSES (360 hours)
You have to follow at least 3*120 hours, which can be obtained by following a) reading courses, b) C.E.S.
seminars or c) doctoral guest lectures
a. Reading courses
Again, the following table gives an example. Every meeting (usually 2 hours) counts for ten hours.
Special Topics in Barbecue Economics (prof. K. Zip)
reading course Z. Zip, “Advanced Barbecue Economics”
DATE
08/11/01
22/11/01
...
Total
SUBJECT
Chapter one: Marginal sausages
Chapter two: Neighbour externalities
...
b. C.E.S. seminars
AUTHOR
Z. Zip
Z. Zip
...
TIME
10 hours
10 hours
...
Every seminar counts for ten hours. To be clear, these are not workshops or something else, but only
seminars from the CES seminar series. An example:
DATE
28/11/2001
...
Total
SUBJECT
Optimal control of a stochastic
barbecuing problem with cats and no
entry deterrence
...
SPEAKER
Z. Zip
STUDY TIME
10 hours
...
...
...
c. Doctoral guest lectures
These are courses given by guest lecturers. Each lecture hour counts for five hours.
DATE
30/11/2001
...
Total
SUBJECT
Organising barbecues
...
SPEAKER
Z. Zip
...
STUDY TIME
5 hours
...
...
B. COMPULSORY RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (400 or 450 hours)
1. DOCTORAL PROPOSAL (50 hours)
In the first year you have to write a proposal, which has to be approved by an ad hoc-commission
composed by the council of the department.
Date of approval:………………..
2. SEMINARS
a) Presentations at work group seminar (2, each counting for 50 hours)
First work group seminar:
April, 2002
Barbecuing with risk-averse agents: an application to fire insurances, CES, werkgroep economie en
overheid (50 hours)
Second work group seminar:
b) international conference (active participation, i.e. presentation or poster
session, in an international conference, which counts for 100 hours)
July, 2002
Barbecuing and risk-aversion in the large: an application to collective fire insurances, BSEM, Lissabon
(100 hours)
3. PUBLICATIONS
You need minimum one publication in an international journal. Publication in an A- or a B-journal counts
for 200 hours. Publication in a C-journal counts for 150 hours.
Name, 2003, Risk aversion and the barbecue: a survey, Journal of Barbecue Economics, 13, p.23-45. (200
hours)
C. ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ACTIVITIES (740 hours)
The other 740 study points can be composed by the activities from the list below:
1. research seminars
10 hours per seminar. These can be work group seminars, workshops, seminars in another university, etc.
DATE
SUBJECT
AUTHOR
08/11/01
How to organise a barbecue in the case of missing
sausage markets
Z. Zip
STUDY
TIME
10 hours
B. Sauce
...
10 hours
...
22/11/01
...
Total
...
2. conferences
Participation in an international conference counts for 10 hours per day.
Presentation at an international conference counts for 100 hours per presentation.
Participation in a national conference counts for 10 hours per day.
Presentation at a national conference or seminar counts for 50 hours per presentation.
3. publications
An additional publication in an A-or B-journal counts for 200 hours.
Another international publication counts for 150 hours.
Other publications count for 50 hours (e.g. a CES discussion paper, article in refereed journal, chapter in
refereed book) and a whole book counts for 200 hours.
4. contact with promotor
1 hour of contact with your promotor counts for 1 hour (maximum 3*50 hours).
Every year this doctoral book should be signed by promotor and doctoral student and handed in before the
6th of July to the director of the doctoral programme.
(YOUR NAME + SIGNATURE)
(PROMOTOR’s NAME + SIGNATURE+DATE)