Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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The Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, with its approximately 100 employees, scholars, and visiting researchers, is one of more than 80 institutions of the Max Planck Society. It is an internationally oriented research institute dealing with applied economics and behavioral analysis of law.

The research group “Economic Design and Behavior” focuses on what might be called “behavioral market design”, which combines tools and topics from market design and behavioral economics. The group is led by Prof. Axel Ockenfels, who is director at the Max Planck Institute and professor at the University of Cologne.

We are seeking to recruit a Postdoc (f/m/div) in Economic Design and Behavior

Our offer to you:
- Excellent, international research environment with strong connections and exchange with the other research groups at the Max Planck Institute, as well as with the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn
- Extraordinary research opportunities and research funding
- Flexible contract term possible in accordance with the German Academic Fixed-Term Contract Act
- No teaching requirement at the Max Planck Institute
- A partial position at the University of Cologne is often possible

Your profile:
- PhD in economics, computer science, or related fields (or about to defend a PhD soon)
- Expertise in behavioral / experimental economics and/or market design and/or quantitative methods (including, e.g., surveys, big-data analytics, artificial intelligence, LLM, machine-learning, and theoretical approaches)

We look forward to receiving your application by January 31, 2024, exclusively via our application portal: https://career.coll.mpg.de/en/jobposting/70e28771f91ba9cd523b2d1cf6c5fb189837ce490/apply

Interviews at the institute in Bonn are tentatively scheduled for February 21, 2024.

Please upload the following documents:
- Letter of motivation
- CV with a list of publications / working papers
- Research statement (at most two pages)
- Job market paper (published article or manuscript)
- Copies of degree certificates
- Three letters of reference (if the reviewers wish to send the letters directly, or you can send them only later, please send them to luetz@coll.mpg.de before the deadline)

Should you have further questions, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Dr. Axel Ockenfels via e-mail: ockenfels@coll.mpg.de.

Further information about our team and the institute can be found at https://www.coll.mpg.de.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Kurt-Schumacher-Straße 10
53113 Bonn