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At most wall street firms, building models is the domain of folks (fondly) called “quants” or “strats”. Most of the elite quants at my firm have PHDs in math, physics or computer science. </p>
<p>Most of the economists in my firm are concentrated in the research department. For example, the guy who came up with the acronym BRIC was an economist in our research department until last year.</p>