EconLab RA Openings
RA Opportunities in Economics for Fall 2021
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"Accepting applications for the 2021-22 academic year." Title: A Large-Scale Analysis of Merger Simulations (Multiple Positions Available) Professor: Vivek Bhattacharya and Gaston Illanes Hours: Flexible, but prefer a commitment of at least 10-15 per week Class Requirements: Econometrics strongly preferred Skills: Familiarity with Python would be preferred Details: This project is designed to evaluate standard tools in industrial organization to predict the price effects of mergers. The RAs will help the professors gather and clean data from a variety of sources, including the Nielsen Retail Scanner Dataset, SEC filings, and other databases to generate information about products associated with a large set of mergers. They will then use this data and existing Python code to (1) predict the effects of mergers that actually happened in the past and (2) compare the predictions to the observed price effects. We anticipate this being a short-term project over the summer. |