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Michael Powell
mlp@mit.edu
November 14th, 2011
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Current Position

2011-Present:      Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Economics at the Sloan School of Management at MIT

Education

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

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

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

Awards and Honors

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2007-2008, 2009-2011)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential Fellowship (2006-2008)
Robert D. and Margaret A. Wark Memorial Scholarship (2005-2006)
UCLA Departmental Scholar in Economics (2004-2006)
SBC Foundation Scholarship (2004-2006)
Alumni Scholarship in memory of Blake Lawrence Rogers (2003-2005)

Professional Activities

Invited Participant at Grossman and Hart at 25 conference, ULB (June 2011)
Price Theory Summer Camp, University of Chicago (June 2009)
Summer School in Economic Theory, Jerusalem (July 2008)
Co-President, Graduate Economics Association (2007-2008)

Referee for:  American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal of Law and Economics
Program committee:  NBER Organizational Economics Conference (2009, 2011)

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for Robert Gibbons, Graduate Organizational Economics (14.282), MIT, Fall 2010
Teaching Assistant for Joseph Ostroy, Graduate Microeconomic Theory III (Econ. 201C), UCLA, Spring 2006

Working Papers

Productivity and Credibility in Industry Equilibrium, November 2011Job Market Paper
Organization and Information:  Firms' Governance Choices in Rational-Expectations Equilibrium (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden), November 2011 (2nd round R&R Quarterly Journal of Economics)
Influence-Cost Models of Firm Boundaries and Structures, November 2011
Rational-Expectations Equilibrium in Intermediate Good Markets (with Robert Gibbons and Richard Holden), December 2009

Ongoing Research

Handing out Guns at a Knife Fight:  Behavioral Limitations of the Moore Repullo Mechanism (with Ernst Fehr and Tom Wilkening)

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






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