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Michael Powell
 mlp at mit dot edu
April 5th, 2010
 

Education

2006-Present:     Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
     Ph.D, Economics
     Expected Completion:  June, 2011
     4.9/5.0 Overall GPA

2003-2006:         University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
     M.A., Economics
     B.A., Economics; Minor, Mathematics
     4.0/4.0 Overall GPA

2001-2003:          West Valley College (Saratoga, CA)
     A.A., Liberal Arts with Honors
     4.0/4.0 Overall GPA

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2008, 2009-2011)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential Fellowship (2006-2008)
Alternate for the Jacob K. Javits Graduate Fellowship (2006)
Robert D. and Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship (2005-2006)
Departmental Scholar in Economics (2004-2006)
SBC Foundation Scholarship (2004-2006)
Alumni Scholarship in memory of Blake Lawrence Rogers (2003-2005)
Volunteer of the Year - Santa Teresa Public Library (2003)
Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society Scholarship (2002-2003)

Activities

Price Theory Summer Camp, University of Chicago (June 2009)
Summer School in Economic Theory, Jerusalem (July 2008)
Co-President, Graduate Economics Association (2007-2008)
Jury Foreman, Santa Clara County (May 2003)
President, Alpha Gamma Sigma Honors Society (2002-2003)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Joseph Ostroy, Graduate Microeconomic Theory III (Econ. 201C), UCLA, Spring 2006
     8.93/9.00 Overall Evaluation (28/31 responses)

Working Papers

Integration and Information:  Markets and Hierarchies Revisited (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden), January 2010 (R&R Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden), December 2009
     A Rational-Expectations Model of Goods Markets (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden), March 2009 - older version that contains useful results for GHP2

Ongoing Research

Endogenous Dynamic Incentives and the Costs of Taxation (with Ruchir Agarwal), January 2010
Hierarchies in Markets:  A Relational-Contracting Perspective, December 2009
Handing out Guns at a Knife Fight:  Behavioral Limitations of the Moore Repullo Mechanism (with Ernst Fehr and Tom Wilkening), October 2009
An Influence-Cost Theory of the Firm (with Robert Gibbons), November 2008

Professional Activities

Referee for:  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy

Research Assistance

Research Assistant for Bob Gibbons (Organizational Economics), May 2008 - July 2009
Research Assistant for Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav (Structural Public Economics), October 2007 - June 2008
Research Assistant for Bob Gibbons and Richard Holden (Organizational Economics), June 2007 - July 2008
Research Assistant for Panle Jia and Steve Berry (Empirical IO), January 2007 - February 2008
Research Assistant for Mariano Tappata (Empirical IO), June 2005 - July 2006
Research Assistant for Enrico Moretti (Applied Micro), October 2004 - December 2004
Research Assistant for Enrico Moretti and Ulrike Malmendier (Corporate Finance), May 2004 - July 2004
 Proofreader for Muhamet Yildiz and Sergei Izmalkov (Global Games), July 2007
Proofreader for Richard Holden, Philippe Aghion, and Drew Fudenberg (Contract Theory), June 2007
Proofreader for David Levine and Drew Fudenberg (Behavioral), April 2006 - May 2006

Non-Academic Work Experience

Apr. 2001 - Sep. 2003:     Red Lobster - Server
Dec. 2000 - Apr. 2003:     In-N-Out Burger - Level 5 Associate
Jun. 2000 - Dec. 2000:      Albertsons - Courtesy Clerk
Jan. 2000 - Jun. 2000:       KFC - Associate

Hobbies

Traveling, photography, music, cooking, squash








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