The University of Milano-Bicocca is offering a fully funded three-year PhD position in Business for Society, focusing on the project "Banking Intermediation Under Digital Disruption: DeFi, Emerging Risks, and Business Model Transformation." This opportunity is open to outstanding international candidates interested in how Decentralised Finance (DeFi), stablecoins, and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are reshaping traditional banking intermediation. The research will address business mode...

Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy, is inviting applications for its fully funded PhD program in Economics for the academic year 2026/2027. The program offers six scholarships covering tuition and providing a stipend for a duration of 3–4 years. Research areas include Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Financial Markets and Regulation, Industrial Economics and Competition, Behavioral Economics and Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Economic Modeling...

The Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) is offering several exciting research opportunities at the Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modeling in economics and statistics (LIDAM). There are three PhD positions available in the field of energy economics, with research topics including industrial economics within the ENERPOL project, public economics, and economic theory. Additionally, there are postdoctoral positions focusing on the impact of artificial intelligence on firms’ product...