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General Information

Full Name Samuel Evan Ross
Languages English (Native), French (Proficient)
Citizenship United States

Education

  • 2021 – 2025
    B.S. in Mathematics and Economics
    Haverford College, Haverford, PA
    • GPA: 3.98
    • Major GPAs: 4.0
    • Selected Coursework:
      • Abstract Algebra
      • Advanced Econometrics
      • Complex Analysis
      • Functional Analysis
      • Graduate Microeconomics I (UPenn)
      • Machine Learning
      • Macroeconomics
      • Measure Theory
      • Multivariate Statistical Analysis
      • Political Economy
      • Real Analysis
    • Athletics: Varsity Cricket (Batsman)

Experience

  • Aug 2023 – Present
    Research Assistant for Professor Kenneth S. Rogoff
    Harvard University, Department of Economics (Remote)
    • Global Role of the Dollar Book: Gathered research for a forthcoming book about dollar dominance. Built charts illustrating international macroeconomic trends using data from LSEG Refinitiv, IMF, World Bank, etc.
  • Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
    Summer Analyst, Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies, DSGE
    Federal Reserve Bank of New York (New York, NY)
    • HANK Solution Software: Wrote a Julia package that implements the Sequence-Space Jacobian method of Auclert et al. (2021) to efficiently solve Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (HANK) DSGE models. Software facilitates analysis of the distributional consequences of monetary and fiscal policy for research and internal Bank reports.
  • Jun 2023 – Jan 2024
    Year-round Intern, Stress Testing Research
    Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Washington, DC)
    • Corporate Debt Paper: Currently co-authoring a journal article about the transmission of monetary policy through the corporate loan market. Merged, cleaned, and analyzed several large regulatory datasets (SNC, Y-14Q, Y-9C) using SQL, Stata, and Python. Retained part-time during the academic year to continue this work.
    • CECL Impact Project: Used synthetic controls to study the impact of the CECL accounting standard on bank lending and net allowances, extending a FEDS Note (Loudis et al., 2021).
  • May 2022 – Aug 2022
    Research Assistant for Professor Carola Binder
    Haverford College, Department of Economics (Haverford, PA)
    • Price Controls Book: Gathered primary sources and wrote passages for a book about historical price controls in the United States (Shock Values, University of Chicago Press, 2024).
    • Magazine Review: Wrote a review of "Can't we just print more money?" (Patel, Meaning, and Bank of England, Cornerstone Press, 2022) that was published in Central Banking magazine with my supervisor and a colleague.

Activities

  • Oct 2021 – Present
    Founder & Co-Head
    Haverford Economics Club
    • Covid Reopening Extension: Led a team extending Chetty et al. (2020). Built a Python web scraper to crawl New York Times archives for data on states' Covid reopening timelines, then used synthetic controls to evaluate the impact of different sectors' reopenings on employment, spending, and business activity. Presented at a joint University of Göttingen–Institute for New Economic Thinking (Young Scholars Initiative) webinar in November 2022.
  • Aug 2021 – Present
    Founder & Co-Head
    Haverford Problem Solving Group (Math Club)
    • Competition Math Events: Host weekly competitive mathematics training events. Led Haverford to top-20 national placement in the 2021 and 2022 Putnam exams.

Skills and Awards

  • Awards: The Michael M. Weinstein Prize in Economics (Haverford, 2024), Class of 1896 Prize in Mathematics (Haverford, 2023)
  • Programming Languages: Java, Julia, LaTeX, Mathematica, MATLAB, Python (TensorFlow, Keras, sklearn), R, Stata, SQL
  • Tools: Git, LSEG Refinitiv, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Tableau, Unix, Vim, Zotero