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• Research skills
• Analytical and critical thinking
• Understanding of economics & finance principles and concepts
• Analyzing data
• Computing data
• Developing budgets & financial reports
• Evaluating policies
• Testing ideas and hypotheses
• Writing proposals
• Performing cost/benefit analyses
• Reading and interpreting economic statements
• Applying statistical methods
  
  

• University at Albany Department of Economics
• Economics Society