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How would you analyse a country. Let's talk about the economic situation about Turkey. What can a country do to reduce their current account deficit? What is the FX carry trade? How would you value a currency? Views about inflation? What creates inflation if you would analyse it? What do you know about predictability of bond returns? What is your view about inequality? Does it affect economic growth? What are current macroeconomic topics?
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Economist

Interviewed at Norges Bank Investment Management

3.3★
Apr 9, 2016

How would you analyse a country. Let's talk about the economic situation about Turkey. What can a country do to reduce their current account deficit? What is the FX carry trade? How would you value a currency? Views about inflation? What creates inflation if you would analyse it? What do you know about predictability of bond returns? What is your view about inequality? Does it affect economic growth? What are current macroeconomic topics?

Part 2 "In Exercise 2, the ACS data in columns B and C are the employment and unemployment numbers for each census tract. In columns D and E are the ACS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment totals. Calculate each Salt Lake County census tracts’ ACS employment and unemployment share in columns F and G. In columns H and K are two components of the 2017 BLS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment information. Populate columns I and J given the data in columns H and K. This will give you the BLS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment numbers. After this, apply the ACS census tract shares to the current BLS county information and populate columns L thru O. Next, copy the census tract titles and the 2017 current census tract information (columns L thru O) to another worksheet. Name that worksheet “Exercise_2 results.” Do whatever is necessary to combine census tracts to find the maximum combination of census tracts whose cumulative employment and unemployment numbers produce an unemployment rate of 6.5%. Show your calculation." The second part was done completely on an Excel spreadsheet. Given the BLS and ACS estimates, you would calculate the share of employed and unemployed persons for each census tract in 2017. Next, you would estimate the current year employed and unemployed persons for each census tract.
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Regional Economist

Interviewed at Utah Department of Workforce Services

1.3★
Mar 11, 2022

Part 2 "In Exercise 2, the ACS data in columns B and C are the employment and unemployment numbers for each census tract. In columns D and E are the ACS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment totals. Calculate each Salt Lake County census tracts’ ACS employment and unemployment share in columns F and G. In columns H and K are two components of the 2017 BLS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment information. Populate columns I and J given the data in columns H and K. This will give you the BLS Salt Lake County employment and unemployment numbers. After this, apply the ACS census tract shares to the current BLS county information and populate columns L thru O. Next, copy the census tract titles and the 2017 current census tract information (columns L thru O) to another worksheet. Name that worksheet “Exercise_2 results.” Do whatever is necessary to combine census tracts to find the maximum combination of census tracts whose cumulative employment and unemployment numbers produce an unemployment rate of 6.5%. Show your calculation." The second part was done completely on an Excel spreadsheet. Given the BLS and ACS estimates, you would calculate the share of employed and unemployed persons for each census tract in 2017. Next, you would estimate the current year employed and unemployed persons for each census tract.

Part 1 "How is the Civilian Labor Force measured? Is someone without a job and not looking for a job in the Civilian Labor Force? How is the unemployment rate calculated? Calculate the 16+ population in the Excel spreadsheet. Give your answer in the empty column entitled “16+ Population”. Be sure to calculate it for every month/year in the spreadsheet. Calculate the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFP) using the Excel spreadsheet provided. Give your answer in the empty column entitled “LFP”. Be sure to calculate it for every month/year in the spreadsheet. What do you notice about the LFP between 2009 and 2012? (I suggest inserting a line chart in Excel to help). In economic terms, what does this mean and what are the implications? The unemployment rate peaked at 8.4% by January 2010. By December 2011 the rate had fallen to 6.1%. What was the major cause of this unemployment rate decline?" Along with a Word doc with questions and answers, there was an Excel sheet with some populated and some blank fields. Given the civilian labor force and employment numbers, you were meant to calculate things like the 16+ population, unemployment rate, etc.
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Regional Economist

Interviewed at Utah Department of Workforce Services

1.3★
Mar 11, 2022

Part 1 "How is the Civilian Labor Force measured? Is someone without a job and not looking for a job in the Civilian Labor Force? How is the unemployment rate calculated? Calculate the 16+ population in the Excel spreadsheet. Give your answer in the empty column entitled “16+ Population”. Be sure to calculate it for every month/year in the spreadsheet. Calculate the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFP) using the Excel spreadsheet provided. Give your answer in the empty column entitled “LFP”. Be sure to calculate it for every month/year in the spreadsheet. What do you notice about the LFP between 2009 and 2012? (I suggest inserting a line chart in Excel to help). In economic terms, what does this mean and what are the implications? The unemployment rate peaked at 8.4% by January 2010. By December 2011 the rate had fallen to 6.1%. What was the major cause of this unemployment rate decline?" Along with a Word doc with questions and answers, there was an Excel sheet with some populated and some blank fields. Given the civilian labor force and employment numbers, you were meant to calculate things like the 16+ population, unemployment rate, etc.

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