PhD Student – scholarship in the SONATA BIS 12 NCN project Domestic and foreign shocks and business cycles in small open economies”

The research project has three main goals.

First, it will provide new empirical evidence on spillovers of main macroeconomic shocks identified using state-of-the-art methods to small open economies.

Second, the project will analyze the impact of domestic shocks and compare it to the foreign ones.

The third goal of the project is to build on frontier approaches to theoretical structural macroeconomic modelling to make progress in reflecting empirical findings. To this end, two open-economy models will be derived, simulated and estimated to find whether their results better (than standard new open macroeconomy setups) reflect: i) cross-country correlations of macroeconomic variables as well as ii) empirical evidence of shock spillovers.

The doctoral co-investigator will be involved in:

• Constructing the database necessary to conduct empirical investigation (downloading the data, combining datasets from various sources, data preparation for empirical analysis, data preparation for publications online);

• Conducting empirical assessment and investigation; Subject to her/his skills, research interests and experience, the doctoral co-investigator may be involved in:

• Developing, simulating and estimating the theoretical model;

• Support in describing and documenting the research outcomes, including the possibility of co-authoring research article(s);

• Presenting the research outcomes at conferences.

The applications should be submitted via email to: MBdTh-*aL}|Nv/1fm4rkXp]#[1K\6\wqQDqh43!&oSshtI]

Submission deadline: 20.06.2023, 23:59

Details are available in the announcement.