PhD Opportunities in Econometrics

The Department of Economics at the University of Southampton is recruiting doctoral students for programmes starting in 2027. The opportunity is designed for research-focused students interested in advancing their expertise in economics within a university department and doctoral training environment. Research supervision is available across applied economics , economic theory , experimental economics , macroeconomics , and econometrics . These areas provide scope for doctoral research examining...

Aarhus University is recruiting a PhD student for a project on dynamic flood exposure in Denmark and the question of where people will live as flood risk increases. The research addresses a major limitation in long-term flood-adaptation planning: projections often assume that households and buildings remain fixed in their current locations for the next 80–100 years. The PhD project will model how household location decisions influence future flood exposure and how these changing patterns can inf...

The Professorship of Environmental Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) , Campus Weihenstephan, is offering a doctoral research position in environmental and behavioral economics . The PhD researcher will join the WET-TER project —Water Efficiency through Technology, Targeting, and Experimental Research—which investigates how sustainable household behavior can be encouraged through technology, targeting, and experimental approaches. The project involves large-scale field experim...

Bocconi University offers a four-year full-time PhD program in Economics and Finance for highly qualified students seeking advanced research training and international academic careers. The multidisciplinary program is organised across three curricula: Economics, Finance and Accounting. A shared core develops broad theoretical and empirical research skills, while advanced second-year courses and electives allow students to specialise. Students begin their first research paper in the second year,...

The EBS Business School at EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht offers a structured doctoral programme in Business Administration in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany. The programme is designed as a research-oriented doctoral study with mandatory theoretical and methodological courses, specialised electives tailored to different research fields, and a strong emphasis on regular proposal defences and supervisor feedback. Doctoral candidates work within a structured research and supervision environment...

The DIW Berlin Graduate Center offers a five-year doctoral programme in economics that leads to a PhD from one of Berlin’s partner universities. It is designed for outstanding doctoral students from around the world who want rigorous training in research and policy advice, with a strong empirical orientation. The programme combines structured coursework in the first year with research-based training from the second through fifth years. Students take advanced courses in mathematics, microeconomic...

Erasmus University Rotterdam is inviting applications for a fully funded and salaried PhD position in Strategic Management or Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), within the Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship department and ERIM doctoral programme. The successful candidate may freely develop a research topic within the department’s expertise. Potential areas include corporate ownership and governance strategy; scaling and high-growth firms; entrepreneurship; corpora...

Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) is seeking highly motivated PhD candidates in quantitative marketing. The fully funded and salaried position combines marketing science with machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, econometrics, economics, and consumer behavior. Research may address AI methods for adaptive decision-making, experimentation, personalization, multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, consumer or firm learning, privacy ...

Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Rotterdam School of Management is inviting applications for a fully funded, salaried PhD in Finance . The finance faculty is an international research group with strengths in asset pricing, corporate finance, and banking and financial intermediation. Research topics may include asset management and financial markets; private equity, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and sustainable finance; or financial regulation and FinTech. Students develop researc...