Michael Powell
mlp at mit dot edu
September 6th, 2008
 

Education

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

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

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

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2008, 2009-2011)
Co-President, Graduate Economics Association (2007-2008)
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)

Teaching

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

Research Assistance

Research Assistant for Bob Gibbons (Organizational Economics), May 2008 - Present
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

Ongoing Research

No Firm is an Island (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden)
Influence-Cost Theories 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)
     Presented in the MIT Experimental Lunch.  December 7th, 2007

Non-Academic Work Experience

Hobbies

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