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SHoF Post-Doctoral Position in Household Finance
The Swedish House of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics (SHoF) is accepting applications for a two-year post-doctoral position in household finance.
SHoF is Sweden’s national research center in financial economics. It was founded in 2011 by the Stockholm School of Economics and the Institute for Financial Research (SIFR) through a government initiative to strengthen financial research in Sweden with the aim to be one of the top research institutions in Europe. For more information about SHoF please visit
https://www.houseoffinance.se.
The Post-Doctoral position will enable an outstanding early-career economist to visit SHoF for two years of intensive research on household finance and its related fields. The
successful candidate is expected to be full time at SHoF for the duration of the position and actively participate in the activities of the research center. Approximately half time is devoted to support research projects of faculty affiliated with SHoF.
Applicants should be recent PhD graduates with a strong interest and research experience in household finance. They should have a deep and proven knowledge in the empirical methods and tools used in household finance, such as panel data econometrics, data cleaning and imputation techniques, as well as good to excellent programming skills in Stata, SAS and Matlab. Excellent spoken and written English is a requirement.
SHoF is committed to a balanced gender distribution and values a variety of backgrounds and experiences among our employees. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of their country of origin, gender, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, disability, sexual orientation, age, or religion or other beliefs.
Applicants should submit a cover letter and a CV by September 10, 2017. Letters of recommendation are not required but encouraged.
Please apply by email to: recruitment@houseoffinance.se
