Student Research Assistant - Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA)

The professorship of Macroeconomics, under guidance of Prof. Sarah Lein in the Faculty of Business and Economics, invites applications for a student research assistant position.

Start date: by agreement

 

Your position

You will support the secretariat of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) in its daily business (communication with central banks, organization of conferences, updating of the webpage).

You will furthermore support the team of the professorship macroeconomics in its research activities, in particular ongoing projects that use large microeconomic datasets to analyze and forecast the macroeconomy.

 

Your profile

You have excellent communication skills in English. Knowledge of German is an asset but not a requirement. We welcome candidates with some experience in creating websites with wordpress or similar tools.

Your field of studies is related to economics, statistics or computer science (both Bachelor and Master students are welcome to apply).

 

We offer you

You will gain insights into the organization of research activities at central banks, as well as insights into policy relevant research topics such as big-data based inflation analysis.

See our activities here: https://wwz.unibas.ch/en/macroeconomics/, as well as https://cebra.org/

 

Application / Contact

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Sarah Lein (sarah.lein@unibas.ch) or Dr. Andreas Freitag (andreas.freitag@unibas.ch).

We will continuously consider incoming applications and prefer a candidate who can start his / her assignment soon. Final deadline is February 1, 2019.

We are looking forward to receiving your complete online application including a CV, a letter of motivation, your diplomas and a current performance overview.