PhD opportunity at University of Copenhagen / Danske Bank

Are you intrigued by fundamental questions at the intersection between macroeconomics and household economics and eager to find creative ways to address them with big datasets and modern empirical methods? Do you have excellent skills in empirical economics and data management? Would you like to work with leading bank economists and academic researchers while earning a PhD degree in economics?

If yes, then you may be interested in an upcoming PhD position embedded within an existing research collaboration between the University of Copenhagen and Danske Bank.

The PhD candidate will be working with the research group at the University of Copenhagen on a new project studying how rising inflation shapes the financial decisions of households, e.g. their day-to-day spending, their investments in housing and stock markets and their labor supply. There will also be time during the PhD period to undertake independent research, not necessarily on inflation, that levers data from Danske Bank. Finally, there will be some obligations in terms of university teaching and an opportunity to contribute to the bank’s ongoing macroeconomic research work.

While the PhD candidate will be employed at Danske Bank, the salary level and general working conditions will be the same as for internally employed PhD candidates at the University of Copenhagen. The PhD candidate needs to fulfil the formal criteria for enrolment into the PhD program at the Department of Economics (link).

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send an email to Professor Niels Johannesen (niels.johannesen@econ.ku.dk) no later than 27 September 2022. Explain in a few words what motivates your interest and attach a resume and a grade transcript.