Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Macroeconomics)

About the role

The Department of Economics at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University (Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde), is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in macroeconomics. This is a full-time, fixed-term appointment of two years, with the possibility of extension depending on funding and performance, and no formal teaching requirement. It sits within a team of macroeconomists working on firm expectations and the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy.

Key responsibilities

• Design, conduct and publish research on firm expectation formation and perceptions of macroeconomic uncertainty.
• Examine how monetary policy, cost shocks and uncertainty affect firms' pricing, wage-setting, hiring and investment decisions.
• Investigate inflation dynamics and firms' cost pass-through behaviour.
• Help design survey instruments and information-provision experiments, including question design, fielding and data analysis.
• Write papers for leading international economics journals and present at seminars, workshops and conferences.
• Coordinate research assistants where required and coordinate your own research agenda alongside the funded stream.

Required profile

• PhD in Economics or a closely related field, or nearly complete, with an established record or clear potential in macroeconomics and monetary economics.
• Comfortable working with micro-level data and fluent in writing code.
• Ability to manage a research program with minimal direction while contributing to shared projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication, including experience preparing research for publication and presenting to varied audiences.
• Criminal history check and academic qualification check required.

Required skills

• Demonstrated experience with micro-level survey or administrative data.
• Advanced programming and data analysis in Stata, R, Python or MATLAB.
• Experience with expectations data, survey design or randomised/information-provision experiments is desirable.

What we offer

• Annual salary package from $104,481 to $136,453 plus 17% employer superannuation and annual leave loading.
• Flexible working options, training and professional development, and onsite childcare and vacation care.
• Discounted health insurance, onsite GP, imaging and physio clinics, and subsidised sport and aquatic centre membership.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation assistance may be considered for the preferred candidate.

Applicants submit an online application with a CV, cover letter, research statement, a representative paper and three letters of recommendation; applications close on 29 November 2026.