Research Assistant - Prof. Dubois

Job description

Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar). Position Summary: Summer Research Assistant Position. The exact schedule is flexible, as long as the 193h of work are fulfilled. The summer undergraduate research assistant will support a project on how open banking affects household deposit behavior, bank competition, and financial stability in Canada, with particular attention to Québec. The RA will 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, and document sources, definitions, and code so that the resulting database is auditable and replicable. Depending on progress, the RA may also assist with survey preparation, descriptive analysis, and other empirical tasks rel...