Overview: • Casual Researcher role for a project • Flexible hours per week • Based at the Melbourne CBD campus About RMIT RMIT offers life-changing experiences for our students, and helps shape the world with research, innovation, teaching and industry engagement.
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Project Overview: Research Assistant is required to collect data as per revision requirements.
About the College of Business and Law RMIT's College of Business and Law takes an industry and student-centered approach to its courses and programs, ensuring graduates are work ready and able to tackle business challenges, stakeholder needs, act as socially responsible global citizens and create fair and positive futures for all.
The College delivers impactful research informed by industry, which supports its strong position as College at the intersection of business and technology with social impact.
Its important work is underpinned by the principles of quality, collaboration, big ideas and putting people first.
About You As a Research Assistant you will undertake research activities in line with the University's research strategy.
It is expected that the Research Assistant will work with an increasing degree of autonomy as skills and experience develop.
Research Assistant Tasks Overview: - Collect model variables (corporate governance, financial, and country-level variables) for data extension (by three years) as required by the editor.
- Collect default components and execute the default risk calculations based on components collected from the datasets.
- Mine/clean and merge the data from different sources to be used in testable software (Stata).
We are looking for a research assistant skilled in Excel, financial databases e.g.
WRDS and STATA.
Qualification PhD Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children Check.
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