This position is ideal for outstanding candidates who are considering applying to a top PhD program in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related fields. The program offers an excellent opportunity to build a strong foundation in empirical research methods, develop relevant technical and soft skills, and gain first-hand exposure to the academic research environment.

Predocs will work closely with faculty from the accounting, finance, and economics departments and will be part of a new predoc program within an interdisciplinary research center, led by Professor Marcel Olbert. Predocs will join an active research community of several predocs, PhD students, and faculty members across disciplines, broadly focused on how regulation and economic policies shape firm behavior, capital markets, the economy, and society, with particular relevance to taxation, climate, and sustainability.

The main responsibility of Predoctoral Research Professionals is to collaborate closely with faculty and their (international) co-authors throughout all stages of empirical research. Tasks include supporting new data collection (e.g., web scraping, NLP pipelines, and survey work), cleaning, merging, and documenting data, working with large administrative, firm-level, and text-based datasets, and conducting statistical and econometric analyses using state-of-the-art methods and software (R, Stata, Python).

In addition, Predocs may synthesize existing research, prepare presentations and materials for academic and outreach purposes, and help organize research activities, workshops, and events within the emerging research center. The role offers deep immersion into empirical research, full exposure to the academic publication process, and opportunities to develop one’s own research ideas or co-author with faculty.

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