Research Economist
Employer
- Fannie Mae
Job Description
Company Description
- Contribute to the team's research efforts, using public and company data to inform and quantify the impact of proposed or implemented policy changes. Conduct research to understand prior market, social, or other developments relevant to internal or external stakeholders using statistical and other recognized methods. Current projects focus on mortgages, housing affordability, racial disparities, green housing and mortgage products, climate change, and demographics.
- Apply research best practices to the development and ongoing improvement of forecasts, indices, and surveys, including the evaluation of Fannie Mae's products and policies. Responsibilities may also involve operationalizing statistical tools and models to provide analysis for downstream users (e.g. home price forecasts or indices, or survey results).
- Ensure the team is up to date on economic, market, and regulatory developments along with relevant academic and practitioner research through conducting literature reviews and attending academic and industry conferences.
- Translate findings for non-technical audiences, such as industry partners, business customers, or the media.
- In addition to working on real-world problems in a business setting, ESR economists have the opportunity to conduct independent research, collaborate with outside academic partners, and develop papers targeted for publication and presentation at conferences. Such activities are encouraged and supported.
- Expertise in using statistical methods and econometric techniques.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work with data, including working with large datasets, interpret statistical findings, and draw conclusions related to research questions and the broader literature.
- Ability to work with people with different functional expertise respectfully and cooperatively towards a common goal.
- Skilled in Excel and Stata or SAS.
- PhD economics or a related field is preferred.
- The ideal candidate will have experience working with large datasets and with mortgage-related data.
- Research experience in urban, housing, or real estate economics or policy. One of our positions will be specifically focused on climate and hazard risks (such as flood) and the housing market, the other position is open to a broad range of topical interests.
- Experience using R.
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Date Posted
811 days ago
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