Research Assistant - Prof. Dubois

McGill University • Montreal, QC

24d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a summer undergraduate research assistant position supporting a project on how open banking affects household deposit behavior, bank competition, and financial stability in Canada, with particular attention to Québec. The exact schedule is flexible, as long as 193 hours of work are fulfilled. The RA will be involved in collecting and archiving posted deposit-rate and account-term data from bank websites, helping to build and maintain reproducible code to gather and clean public data from sources such as OSFI and the Bank of Canada, merging and validating datasets, and documenting sources, definitions, and code so that the resulting database is auditable and replicable. Depending on project progress, the RA may also assist with survey preparation, descriptive analysis, and other empirical tasks related to the project.

Requirements

• Undergraduate student in economics, finance, statistics, data science, computer science, or a related field
• Strong attention to detail
• Serious interest in empirical research
• Comfortable working with data
• Some experience in either R/Stata/Python/Julia
• Strong organizational skills
• Care in handling data accurately
• Ability to work independently on structured tasks
• Authorized to work in Canada
• Willing to work in the province of Quebec at the campus where the position is based/located
• English communication both verbally and in writing

Nice To Haves

• Coursework in econometrics, statistics, or programming is helpful
• Reliability, precision, and intellectual curiosity

Responsibilities

• Collect and archive posted deposit-rate and account-term data from bank websites
• Help build and maintain reproducible code to gather and clean public data from sources such as OSFI and the Bank of Canada
• Merge and validate datasets
• Document sources, definitions, and code so that the resulting database is auditable and replicable
• Assist with survey preparation, descriptive analysis, and other empirical tasks related to the project (depending on progress)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed