Form FR 28i FR 28i Research Assistant Candidate Survey of Interest

 

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FR 28i: OMB no. 7100-0181
Average hours per response 5 minutes
Approval expires February 28, 2014

Research Assistant Candidate Survey Of Interests and Computer Experience
The Board's research divisions study a wide range of topics. The information you provide will be used to
try to match your interests with research areas.
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Name:
Please indicate your level of interest in each of the broad areas of economic analysis and policy:

Less Interest
Macroeconomics
(e.g., general macro, public
finance, and monetary policy)
Microeconomics
(e.g., consumer behavior, labor
markets, and industrial
organization)
Financial Economics
(e.g., money & capital markets,
banking, asset pricing, and
derivatives)
International Economics
(e.g., trade, international finance,
and development)
Computational Economics &
Econometric Methods
(e.g., algorithm development and
simulation methods)
Economic Measurement
(e.g., survey research, economic
statistics, and national
accounting)
Monetary Policy and Central
Banking
(e.g., money markets, monetary
policy tools, and FR operations)

Uncertain

Interested

Very Interested

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Other____________________

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

Please indicate your level of experience with and your degree of interest in the following
software packages and statistical languages:
Degree of Interest
Experience
Limited/None Moderate Extensive Low/Uncertain Moderate Strong
SAS
R S-Plus/R
Stata
Minitab
EViews
C++/C/Java
Perl/Python
Python
Matlab
Mathematica
Gauss
SQL
Java
Visual Basic

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Unix/Linux
Linux
Other, please
specify:

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