Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Assistant Professor in Macroeconomic Modeling

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Department:

College of Arts & Sciences

Time Type:

Full time

Job Description:

The Institute for Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis, part of the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University, invites applications for a full-time, 12-month position at the rank of  Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Assistant Professor.  Applicants should have a PhD or anticipate PhD completion by August 2025. The appointment will commence on or before September 1, 2025. This is a non-tenure-track position. There is no teaching associated with this position.

The successful candidate will have experience in state-of-the-art macroeconomic modeling, coding models, and analyzing data. Knowledge of current debates in U.S. fiscal policy is a bonus. The candidate will be an integral member of the IMPA team, engaging in computational modeling, coding, and analyzing data throughout the year.

The principal duties to be carried out in collaboration with other IMPA team members include:

• Developing and extending the IMPA model code base. Specifically:
• Using state-of-the-art numerical techniques to build and solve heterogeneous agent macroeconomic models (particularly sequence-space jacobian methods and related extensions);
• Coding in Julia (or excellence in any other general programming language like Python or C++);
• Using a Git/Github based workflow; and
• Using continuous integration (merging - testing - deployment) and documenting a large code base.
• Performing data analysis. Specifically:
• Coding in R and/or Stata
• Contributing to academic research papers, policy papers, and technical notes
• Assigning and supervising tasks to IMPA’s student research assistants

The annual salary ranges are as follows: Postdoctoral Fellow $90,000-100,000; Research Assistant Professor $100,000-110,000. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Applications received prior to December 5, 2024, will receive priority consideration This position is subject to on-going budgetary approval.

Applications must include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, sample research paper, and sample Julia and R/Stata code. Contact information for three letters of reference will be solicited by Workday after applications are submitted. For more information, please contact impa@american.edu, subject “Macro Modeler Search.”

American University is a private institution within easy reach of the many centers of government, business, research, and the arts located within the nation’s capital. For more information about American University, visit www.american.edu. The Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (IMPA), housed at the Economics Department of American University, is a nonpartisan research institute that acts as a forum for academic debates and a resource for policymakers on macroeconomics, inequality, and economic policy. Grounded in up-to-date economic research, IMPA is building macroeconomic policy models to provide detailed analysis of the economic and distributional impacts of policy proposals.

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