Student Research Assistant Traineeship Programme – Financial Research

As a trainee Student Research Assistant, you will support research projects by:
constructing and maintaining monetary, financial and economic databases;
presenting data in conjunction with basic economic and statistical analyses;
developing mathematical, statistical and econometric procedures for use in research projects;
supporting and maintaining software tools and hardware installations.

Depending on your areas of expertise, your work will also require you to conduct microeconometric analyses (primarily in Stata), time series analyses (primarily in MATLAB), or to solve, calibrate and simulate DSGE models with banking and financial frictions (using MATLAB and Dynare).

The traineeship offers you an excellent opportunity to work closely with our economists and have first-hand exposure to world-class research. You will be able to develop your analytical skills and gain insight into the ECB’s research activities and policymaking processes. You will also engage with new ideas and perspectives that will help you in your future career or graduate studies. You will be part of a multicultural team that strives for continuous innovation to make a positive impact on the lives of European citizens.