Interested in a Post-Doc Position?

🚀 Jumpstart your academic career with a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for European Transformation

📈 Project: Unlocking the potential of European’s capital markets

➡️ Europe faces numerous transformational challenges such as innovation, digitization, or climate change & energy, which need to be addressed. To do that and to unlock Europe’s growth potential, we must activate the supply of capital and develop deeper capital markets in Europe.

✅ We need to understand the frictions that can preclude firms from borrowing money or rolling over debt.
✅ We also need to understand the frictions that prevent them from raising equity.

What is the role of public investments and an optimal mix of public and private capital to fund these transformational challenges? Recent crises, such as the 2007-2009 global financial crisis or the dash-for-cash in March 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic have demonstrated that lack of access to debt or equity markets negatively impacts firm investment, employment and growth.

Answers to these questions can facilitate firms’ access to funding and guide policy makers to determine avoid and optimal respond to future funding crises.

Applicants must hold a PhD degree in finance or economics with an expertise in machine learning/data science; prior experience in the analysis of unstructured data (e.g., NLP) is a plus. The candidates will be evaluated based on an overall assessment of skills, knowledge, and suitability for the position and the potential to publish in top finance journals.

🤝 The position does not involve teaching but I expect involvement in the Centre (including organization of conferences, contributions to policy work etc.)

If you are interested in this position, please apply using the interfolio link: https://apply.interfolio.com/133417