Traineeship and PhD Traineeship in Macroprudential Policy and Financial Stability at European Central Bank

As a trainee you will:

contribute to assessment of macroprudential and financial regulatory policies and/or financial stability arrangements, including through the use of impact assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of adopted or proposed reforms from a financial stability and financial integration perspective. The assessment may include empirical analysis of the interaction between (i) regulation and bank and non-bank intermediation activities, (ii) financial integration and stability, and (iii) microprudential and macroprudential instruments. Other areas of interest include: (i) private credit and non-bank market-makers; (ii) capital market development and integration; and (iii) the structural transformation of the financial system in response to the proliferation of private digital money and related technological change, together with the role that money plays in the wider crypto ecosystem and its linkages with the traditional financial system;
participate actively in the general work of the Division, including by: (i) contributing to analyses for regular internal and external publications such as the Financial Stability Review and the Macroprudential Bulletin; (ii) assisting - through data collection, research assistance and programming - with analytical projects on issues currently of interest to the Directorate General; and (iii) helping to prepare presentations and notes for management (including senior management);
maintain, update and further develop databases used for the analysis of macroprudential policy and of the impact of regulatory measures on financial markets and the real economy;
develop visualisation tools, programs and code for efficient data processing, while helping to ensure that users can access complex datasets;
contribute to the coordination and preparation of high-level European and international meetings attended by ECB representatives.