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Re:Unsolved problems in economics by lukas099 on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:30PM (#31415910)
What does an Amazon economist do?
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Re:Unsolved problems in economics by huitzitziltzin on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:20PM (#31416427)
They hire in three buckets:

- Time series forecasting.

- Reduced-form causal inference

- Structural, especially what is called "structural IO".

Among the questions people in the last category will answer are: how should we price this product? How should we decide which new markets to enter?

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