Economist III - AMZ9674161

Amazon•Jersey City, NJ

24d

About The Position

Work with the chief economist and senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, or operations. Apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising, and other areas. Build econometric models using data systems. Apply economic theory to solve business problems. Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems. Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and IV) and forecasting (essential time series models). Leverage big data tools for data extraction. Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon. Gain experience in academic research. Use program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems. Use R and Stata.

Requirements

Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in Economics, Finance, or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
Must have at least one year of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) working with Causal inference techniques (Difference-in-Differences, Matching, Double Machine Learning, Instrumental Variables, and Regression Discontinuity Designs); (2) statistical analysis tools (Python, R or Stata); (3) Data querying languages (SQL).

Nice To Haves

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Responsibilities

Work with the chief economist and senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, or operations.
Apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising, and other areas.
Build econometric models using data systems.
Apply economic theory to solve business problems.
Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems.
Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity, and IV) and forecasting (essential time series models).
Leverage big data tools for data extraction.
Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon.
Gain experience in academic research.
Use program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, and high dimensional problems.
Use R and Stata.