Job Title: Assistant Professor of Finance

Description: Teaches graduate level courses to MBA and PhD students in finance. Pursues independent academic research including, but not limited to, tax policy and consumption behavior using high frequency data.

Requirements: PhD or DBA in Economics or Finance. Any background must include bond valuation, structure of interest rates, asset pricing models, computational economics, probability and statistics.

Contact: Applicants must submit current CV and research statement to facultyaffairs@kellogg.northwestern.edu, and reference position: KSM_FINCLK .

Vicki Dekker
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
2001 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208.

Senior Research Associate: management and administration of large-scale economic and financial datasets from diverse sources, including CRSP, Compustat and TAQ. Technical assistance and support to faculty using these datasets in research, including data assessment and extraction, use of statistical tools, documentation, and selection of new datasets. Supervises the configuration of the research servers and coordinates with other administrative units the management of computing resources.

Requirements: PhD in Business or Economics, background in research-oriented social science, economics or finance field. Any applicant must have background with large-scale datasets including high frequency financial trading databases in Unix/Linux platform; numerical simulations including monte carlo methods & numerical optimization including KNITRO and SNOPT; background in Matlab, SAS, R and Stata; background in Gauss or Ox.

Any applicant who is interested in this position may apply to the following individual for consideration:

Vicki Dekker
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
2001 Sheridan Rd.
Evanston, IL 60208