Internship in Financial Stability

We offer the opportunity to gain insights into macroprudential supervision and financial stability research. During the internship, you will support our staff with quantitative risk analyses and the development of (empirical) models for the German and international banking sector.

Valuable work: your role with us

Focus Area 1

• You analyze financial stability risks in the banking sector using empirical and model-based approaches. Topics are, for example, the macroprudential assessment of credit, market, interest rate, climate, liquidity, or concentration risks in the national and/or international banking system. To this end, you work with various micro-level datasets and apply established econometric methods to identify, analyze, and assess financial stability risks.

Focus Area 2

• You analyze financial stability risks arising from interconnectedness within the banking system, from deposit guarantee schemes, digitalization, the distress or resolution of large banks, as well as structural risks, such as too-many-to-fail risks.

Unique assets: your skills and qualifications

• Master’s or PhD students in economics with a focus on economics or finance, (applied) mathematics, or related fields
• Current grade point average of 2.5 or better
• Strong interest in quantitative and empirical methods
• Proficiency in Stata, R, Python, Matlab, or comparable programming languages
• Interest in topics related to financial stability

Valuable work, generously rewarded

Remuneration and prospects

International working environment, varied tasks, national and international exchange opportunities, remuneration depending on your qualifications

New Work

Home office opportunities, friendly and respectful working atmosphere, working hours: 39 hours/week, flexible and predictable working hours, flexitime system with additional work compensated by time off in lieu

Extra benefits

Canteen, good transport connections (bus and train), central location

Interested in enriching our team?

Then we can’t wait to receive your application. If there are still questions that you’d like answered before you apply, simply get in touch with the contact people named below.

Questions regarding the application process

praktikum@bundesbank.de

Questions regarding what the role entails

Edgar Vogel, +49 69 9566‑38810

edgar.vogel@bundesbank.de