Economist Job Description
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Economist Job Description
- Good project management skills and ability to work to deadlines
- A strong sense of client needs and the ability to deliver on these
- Assemble and review data
- Conduct statistical analyses and complete studies of real estate and mortgage related data
- Prepare and maintain programs and documentation for asset and asset risk models
- Assist management in monitoring and re-engineering current models and their prototypes as needed, to improve and enhance core models and group research objectives
- Participate in quantitative and qualitative research projects independently
- Fulfill ad-hoc requests for data and analytical reporting to support business units throughout the organization
- Project direction and technical reviews - guide and assist project managers and senior economists across the business to deliver technically robust business cases, economic analysis/assessments, funding submissions, feasibility studies and other related work
- Provide intellectual and technical leadership for the work by the Bank in Indonesia on macroeconomic, fiscal, and growth issues
- Strong knowledge of system dynamics, agent-based modeling, and optimization techniques
- Familiarity with simulation and scenario planning tools such as AnyLogic
- Troubleshoot and advise other teams within the EIU on data and model issues and implications on forecasts and work closely with the regional team ensure the quality of the country data published
- Monitor external data sources and advise on updates and revisions to data
- Promote EIU quantitative products externally by creating new materials that showcase quantitative products and by working closely with EIU sales and marketing teams
- Advise clients in using EIU data within their business
Economist Job Description
- Contribute to technical memoranda, reports and presentations
- Undertake or contribute to high quality, policy-oriented analytical work on a broad range of issues, with a particular focus on analysis of learning outcomes, general education sector analysis and monetary and non-monetary returns to education
- Lead the education policy dialogue, in more than one education subsector or thematic area (early childhood, basic and secondary education, post-basic education and training, tertiary education) in client countries
- Contribute to the education policy dialogue in early childhood development, basic education or in post-basic education and training in client countries and enhance client capacity to carry out and use economic analysis and impact evaluations in policy and decision making
- Lead the education policy dialogue in Argentina, serve as the face of the Bank in the education sector in Argentina and the first point of contact for national and sub-national clients
- Help maintaining existing statistical databases help colleagues preparing reports, presentations, media talking points and other materials
- Lead the day-to-day economic work and dialogue for of the Pacific Island Countries in close consultation with the lead economist
- Meet with clients to obtain project approvals/permits and coordinate plan changes with engineers
- Responsible for developing/presenting portions of presentations and public facilitation
- May direct and review the work of Drafters and less experienced Planners
- Assist in shaping EIU products and services through conversations and feedback from clients
- Bachelor of Economics (or equivalent) degree in Economics from a recognized tertiary institution
- Bachelor's Degree with focus in urban planning, public policy, business, environmental studies or a related field
- Excellent communication and writing skills are critical
- Fluency with Microsoft Office Suite imperative
- Education and/or professional background in urban and real estate economics, urban planning, public policy, business administration or policy modeling/design
Economist Job Description
- Build econometric/statistic/machine learning models required to measure and predict the financial impact of online/offline advertising spend
- Lead the education policy dialogue in client countries
- Design experiments and build simulations to validate experimental hypotheses for in-game economies
- Research, develop, and validate economic models that generate insights into short-term and long-term player behavior patterns
- Design KPIs to measure the health of in-game economies within Blizzard games
- Design, test, and optimize game economy features, such as sales and in-app pricing based on data, to drive retention and monetization
- Collaborate with data engineers on what data is delivered and how to ensure timely access to the right information to impact LTV
- Partner with development teams (platform and games) to implement tools, features and/or designs in order to achieve strategic priorities
- Lead the policy dialogue with the Moldovan authorities, including but not limited through development policy financing
- Design and manage complex data collection activities developing and implementing innovative and creative technical solutions to research questions
- Demonstrated interest in sustainability, with a particular emphasis on quantitative analytical approaches to developing innovative solutions to complex challenges facing cities
- MA, MSc or PhD in economics with specialization in macroeconomics
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or related field strongly preferred
- Up to four years of related experience
- Understanding of relational database principles and experience developing SOL scripts a plus
- Familiarity with statistical software such as SAS or SPSS a plus
Economist Job Description
- Manage and mentor junior, mid-level, and other senior staff to achieve project goals
- Develop and manage budgets to achieve project goals within available financial resources
- Plan and direct the entire preparation of large proposals of significant technical complexity, contract value, or strategic importance
- Develop business opportunities by establishing close client relationships and being recognized for technical expertise
- Research includes personal insights utilizing the methodologies of political science, diplomatic study, business management, periodicals, internet, and direct contact with professionals
- Develop new econometric models or improve existing approaches for pricing
- Build models and work with large data complex data sets to do deeper analysis
- Work closely with engineering teams to build scalable solutions and implement experiments in production
- Work with eCommerce team to drive business growth through pricing strategy, shipping efficiency, logistics
- Delivering high quality asset / business development economics that properly reflect business opportunities
- Excellent understanding of basic economics/finance concepts, Master’s or Ph.D
- Demonstrated application of Cost Benefit Analysis to infrastructure development projects essential
- Two or more years of experience in a postdoctoral position
- Experience in microeconometrics
- Preferred specialties in applied micro or empirical IO, but generalists with broad applied econometric skills are also encouraged to apply
- Should have a Ph.D
Economist Job Description
- Ensuring value of business opportunities is reflected in the economics analysis for Commercial Negotiations, Investment Proposals, decision gates, Near Field Exploration projects, asset commercial and Acquisition and Divestment work
- Delivery of key valuation results acting as lead Economist for several business development opportunities
- Coach and mentor junior economist and lead independent economics peer reviews for junior staff across our locations
- Responsible for the states and metros of regions within the U.S. macroeconomic forecast
- Assist in analyzing and reporting on monthly, quarterly, and annual economic data and local market developments
- Assist with producing state and metro quarterly forecasts for those regions
- Support the production of publications and web-based informational pieces
- Written forecast and data commentary
- Generation of forecasts with modeling software
- Write same-day analysis and special reports to agreed deadlines, meeting quality and quantity requierements
- An MA or PhD degree in the field of Economics
- Knowledge of the structure and performance of the Canadian economy and its regional drivers is ideal but not mandatory
- Knowledge of econometrics in theory and in application
- Knowledge of the banking industry and how economics can be used to improve its performance
- Graduate training and proven academic research track record in causal analysis or program evaluation
- Familiarity with causal inference in a time-series setting and use of causal models for forecasting