Form FR 28i FR 28i Research Assistant Candidate Survey Of Interests and Com

FR 28i: OMB no. 7100-0181
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Name:

Expected Graduation Date:
Availability Date:
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U.S. citizenship is required for Research Assistant positions.

I. The Board's economics divisions study a wide range of topics, including but not limited to the
following broad areas of economic analysis and policy:
Macroeconomics
(General macro, public finance, unemployment, inflation, growth, and productivity)
Microeconomics
(Consumer behavior, labor markets, public finance, urban and regional economics, health, education, natural
resource economics, and industrial organization)
Financial Economics
(Money & capital markets, banking, asset pricing, derivatives, and regulation)
International Economics
(Trade, international finance, and development)
Computational Economics & Econometric Methods
(Algorithm development and simulation methods)
Economic Measurement
(Survey research, economic statistics, and national accounting)
Monetary Policy and Central Banking
(Money markets, monetary policy, and FR operations)

Many qualified Research Assistant candidates have no clear preference among the many areas of
research done at the Board; however, for those who do, indicating such could be helpful to finding the

best fit among the many different groups hiring research assistants. Please rank order the top 3, with 1
being the top, those broad areas of analysis that you are most interested in pursuing, or choose "no
clear preference":
1
2
3
No Clear Preference

II. Responses to the prompts below are optional, but allow candidates to expand upon the
qualifications that successful Research Assistants possess, including:
Collaboration – likes to help others, works well with peers and supervisors, and adds a new perspective
Initiative – is resourceful and is eager to engage with RA tasks and topics
Integrity – is truthful, respects confidentiality, and admits mistakes
Perseverance – advances in unfamiliar or adverse situations
Time management – manages multiple tasks well and is organized
1. Tell us how you have displayed perseverance and advanced in unfamiliar or adverse situations. Provide an
example of an obstacle or challenge that you had to confront and how you dealt with it. (200 words or less)

2. Choose one of the other attributes listed above, and tell us how you have displayed it. Describe any
experiences that particularly highlight your possession of this attribute and explain how it might help you as a
research assistant. (200 words or less)

III. Successful Research Assistants also possess the ability to acquire and expand data analysis and
programming skills. Please indicate your level of experience with and your degree of interest in the
following areas:
Experience
Limited/None Moderate Extensive
Compiling and manipulating datasets
Statistical packages
(Stata, R, SAS)
Please specify:

Programming languages
(SQL, C++/C/Java,
Perl/Python, Matlab)
Please specify:

Degree of Interest
Low
Moderate
Strong

Experience
Limited/None Moderate Extensive

Low

Degree of Interest
Moderate
Strong

Other programs and
operating systems
(Mathematica, Unix/Linux)
Please specify:

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Last Update: November 7, 2019