Michael Powell
mlp at mit dot edu November 12th, 2009
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
Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Goods Markets (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden) Firms In Markets Under Uncertainty (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden)
Ongoing Research
An Influence Cost Theory of the Firm (with Robert Gibbons) Handing
out Guns at a Knife Fight: Behavioral Limitations of the Moore
Repullo Mechanism (with Ernst Fehr and Tom Wilkening)Professional Activities
Referee for: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economics & Management StrategyResearch 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
This
site is not © Copyright Michael Powell 2005-2025, No Rights Reserved
Steve's free web templates
|