PhD Vacancies
The Tinbergen Institute serves as a gateway to PhD positions for students who have completed TI’s Research Master's programs in Economics and Business Data Science. PhD vacancies are announced throughout the academic year. For positions open to external candidates, we encourage you to explore the opportunities listed in the PhD vacancies section below.
PhD positions at the affiliated schools
View current openings of the School of Business and Economics/ABRI (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), School of Economics and Business/Amsterdam Business School (University of Amsterdam) and Erasmus School of Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam):
PhD position in Extreme Value Theory for Survival and Cure Analysis
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is offering a fully funded, 4-year PhD-position in statistics on survival analysis and extreme value theory, as part of the NWO-funded project “Seeing beyond the study duration: extreme value theory for survival and cure analysis”. You will join a collaborative team of two PhD candidates and two senior researchers, Dr. Juan Juan Cai (VU Amsterdam) and Dr. Eni Musta (University of Amsterdam), who will also be your supervisors.
Are you interested in this position and do you believe that your experience will contribute to the further development of our university? In that case, we encourage you to submit your application before March 9th, 2025.
PhD position Financial Economics of Slavery
The position is within the NWO-funded project “Collateral damage: The financial economics of slavery”. This project aims to understand an underexposed aspect of slavery: the financial economics involved. The PhD position is embedded in the research programme Economics, Econometrics and Finance of FEB’s Research Institute at the University of Groningen. The project will be supervised by Abe de Jong (University of Groningen), in cooperation with Tim Kooijmans (RMIT University, Australia) and Peter Koudijs (Erasmus School of Economics and NYU, United States).
Location: Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen
Deadline: January 29, 2025
Apply and information: PhD position Financial Economics of Slavery (1.0 FTE)
PhD Position on the topic of Risk Preferences (Econ/Finance)
PhD position on the topic of Risk Preferences (econ/finance) under supervision of Prof. dr. Martijn van den Assem, and co-advisors Marieke Bos and Martijn de Vries.
School: VU School of Business and Economics
Deadline: to be announced
Apply and information: send email to Martijn de Vries
PhD Position in Behavioral Economics on Group Decision-Making and Discrimination
This PhD position will be within CREED at the University of Amsterdam. Dr. Jan Hausfeld is looking for a full time PhD student starting on September 1, 2025. The research topic falls within the intersection of behavioral economics and neuroeconomics. Broadly, the topic will address “how group affiliations and group compositions affect discrimination and information search across different decision-making contexts”. This position is part of a larger grant, see here.
School: Amsterdam School of Economics
Deadline: to be announced
Apply and information: send email to Jan Hausfeld
PhD Position in Behavioral Economics on Promoting Honesty
This PhD position will be within the Behavioural Economics research group at the Erasmus School of Economics. We are looking for a full time PhD student starting on September 1, 2025. The research topic falls within the intersection of behavioral economics and social psychology. Broadly, the topic will address “how can we elicit more honest behavior”. Relevant research areas are behavioral analysis, behavioral change, and decision-making in the context of ethics, dishonesty, and deception.
School: Erasmus School of Economics
Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Apply and information: Application has been closed
PhD Position in Behavioural Finance/Economics
This PhD position will be within the Behavioural Economics research group. We are looking for a full time PhD student starting on September 1, 2025. The topic if the PhD project should fall within the intersection of behavioral finance and economics. Broadly, the topic will address “understanding and improving financial decision-making”. This includes general decision making under risk, but more specifically topics like sustainable investments, the moral aspects of investments, financial regulation, and financial advice.
School: Erasmus School of Economics
Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Apply and information: Application has been closed
PhD project in Econometrics, Statistics or Operations Research
The Econometric Institute has open PhD projects available for two highly motivated candidates. The Econometric Institute is one of the leading research groups in econometrics in Europe. The group has an opening for a PhD candidate in the broader field of econometrics, statistics or operations research. The topic of the PhD project will be decided based on the candidate’s interest and profile. The chosen topic should fit into the group’s research expertise, which includes, but is not limited to, business analytics, data science, financial econometrics, operations research and statistics. The (co)promoter of the PhD project will be decided based on the chosen topic.
School: Erasmus School of Economics
Deadline: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Apply and information: Application has been closed