Commodity Futures Trading Commission

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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission anticipates multiple openings for Financial Economists and Research Analysts in the Office of the Chief Economist in Washington, DC. We are also interested in tenured and tenure-track faculty who wish to be considered for a visiting position spent at the CFTC’s headquarters in Washington DC.

Who We Are: The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent U.S. Federal government agency that regulates futures, options, and swaps markets.

Desired areas of expertise include, but are not limited to:
1. systemic risk issues related to derivatives, including theoretical and empirical analyses of margin, clearing, liquidity, optimal levels of transparency, and market design;
2. econometric analysis of derivatives data (exchange-traded and Over-the-Counter);
3. theoretical and econometric analysis of high frequency data, including order book and message data;
4. models of trading activity, intermediation, and market microstructure, including network analyses of derivatives markets;
5. economic and empirical analysis of regulations on markets