Overview

What you will study

These fields feature many common elements and thus offer many synergy effects, especially with respect to the modeling of contagion and transmission effects through social interaction and the evolution of networks for instance of the so-called fake news in financial market dynamics, economic fluctuations, the polarization of political attitudes and elections or attitudes towards migration.

The role of the internet and the advancing digitalization in business and society and whether and how network effects on heterogeneous agents are influenced by them are further factors which have not yet been appropiately explored and which are of special interest for the Research Training Group. This Bounded Rationality, Heterogeneity and Network Effects programme is offered at the University of Bamberg.

Programme Structure

Research areas include:

Macro-financial stability and financial market regulation
Business cycle theory with network effects
Group identity, social polarization and political economy under (bounded) rationality
Digitalisation and labour markets: information asymmetries, migration and integration

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-31 00:00:00

Language

English

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Bamberg, Germany

Disciplines

Economics View 21 other PhDs in Economics in Germany

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Submit your application using the online application portal of the Hans Böckler Foundation with the required documents and an exposé (max. 3-5 pages) outlining the doctoral research project before the deadline. Please indicate in your application the research area that you are interested in.

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Tuition Fees

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Free
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EU/EEA Nationals

Free

Living costs

Bamberg

Germany

630 - 1000 EUR / month

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