Professor of Behavioral Economics

Buesch, Victoria, Dennis A. V. Dittrich, and Uta Lieberum. "Motivation älterer Arbeitnehmer." In Wirtschaftspolitische Herausforderungen des demographischen Wandels, edited by Thomas Salzmann, Vegard Skirbekk and Mirjam Weiberg. Demografischer Wandel - Hintergründe und Herausforderungen . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, In Press.

Dittrich, Dennis A. V., Werner Gueth, Martin Kocher, and Paul Pezanis-Christou. Loss Aversion and Learning to Bid. SSRN - Social Science Research Network, 2009.

Buesch, Victoria, Dennis A. V. Dittrich, and Manfred Koenigstein. "Hiring Chances Are Bad For Older Workers." Management Online REview, no. September (2009).

The Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development at Jacobs University Bremen invites applications for the part-time position (19,25 hrs/week) of a

Research Associate (Doctoral Student) in Behavioral Economics

Necessary qualifications are:

• Master’s degree or Diploma in Economics or Business Administration
• Excellent knowledge in the fields of Micro-Economic Theory and Statistics / Micro-Econometrics
• Excellent written and spoken German and English
• Strong quantitative research skills
• Strong interest in an academic career and influential applied research

Beneficial for the position are prior experience in experimental economics and an interest in any of the following topics: personnel and labor economics, social norms and strategic interaction, change across the life span, and demographic changes in society.

Job description:

• Conducting research on the above topics
• Developing and pursuing own research ideas
• Assisting in the acquisition of third party funding and other administrative tasks
• Preparing a PhD thesis

We offer a contract for 24 months. Candidates should submit a complete application – including a CV, a description of the applicant’s (research) experience and future research interests, a PDF version of the Master thesis as well as one reference – as soon as possible to or to the following address:

Jacobs University Bremen
Prof. Dr. D. A. V. Dittrich
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen
 Germany

Electronic application is encouraged. For further information on our research center, please visit us at http://www.jacobs-university.de/schools/jacobscenter .

Jacobs University Bremen is an equal opportunity employer and has been certified “Family Friendly” by the Hertie-Stiftung.