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The KOF Lab at ETH Zurich’s KOF Swiss Economic Institute is seeking a PhD candidate to study the propagation of weather and climate shocks in quantitative trade network models. This position is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research project Climate Extremes and Society: Strengthening Resilience (NCCR CLIM+), an interdisciplinary, Switzerland-wide climate research community involving multiple investigators at ETH Zurich and other Swiss institutions.

Tasks

  • Assess and promote the resilience of supply chains by building and solving quantitative global equilibrium models of trade networks.
  • Use firm-level data to estimate industry and country-level effects of various weather and climate shocks and input the estimated impacts into the model.
  • Leverage theoretical, computational, and econometric tools to study public policy questions related to the resilience of global supply chains to climate change.
  • Conduct the doctorate within the doctoral program of D-MTEC (Department of Management, Technology, and Economics).

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in economics or finance.
  • Candidates with a master’s degree in mathematics or statistics will be considered if they have completed some coursework in economics and are prepared for intensive economics PhD training.
  • Highly proficient in English.
  • Proficient in MATLAB, Python, or Julia and willing to work in MATLAB.
  • Prior coursework in trade theory and environmental economics is a major asset.
  • Experience with panel data econometrics is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to apply cutting-edge economic theory to practical policy issues at the intersection of trade and climate change.
  • Chance to contribute to NCCR CLIM+ research discussions.
  • Join KOF, Switzerland’s leading academic institute for applied economic research, providing independent and objective data and facts, as well as timely assessments to support decision-makers in politics and business.
  • Be part of a large and vibrant community of economic researchers.
  • Opportunity to participate in numerous workshops and conferences spanning all fields of economics in Zurich.
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Das Team

The PhD candidate will be supervised primarily by Professor Hans Gersbach and Dr. Kieran Walsh and will join a large and vibrant community of economic researchers at KOF Lab and within the broader economics community in Zurich.

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