Phd candidate
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The School of Business and Economics (SBE) of Maastricht University offers a 4-year PhD position for students with a (Research) Master degree or equivalent in the Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics.
The Department of Microeconomics and Public Economics is looking for a PhD candidate in Public Economics or Urban Economics to investigate the interplay between public policy, housing markets, and economic inequality. Relevant fields in economics include taxation, matching, real estate economics, regional economics, welfare economics, environmental economics, political economy, and applied microeconomics.
The PhD candidate will closely collaborate with researchers working on projects in these fields. Among other things, these projects analyze the consequences of house price booms on the socio-economic segregation of cities, the impact of taxes on homeownership and house prices, misallocation on the housing market and potential remedies, the welfare effects of policy changes, the differential exposure of poor and rich households to climate change, and the political economy of carbon taxes.
Tongersestraat 53
6211 LM Maastricht , Netherlands
