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Paulo Natenzon
WUSTL Department of Economics
One Brookings Drive, Campus Box 1208
St. Louis, MO 63130 USA
http://pnatenzon.wustl.edu
Updated: June 2014
(732) 822-5235 mobile
[email protected]
US Permanent Resident
Current
Position
Washington University in St. Louis
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Princeton University
General Examinations: Economic Theory, Financial Economics
M.A. in Economics, Princeton University
M.Sc. in Mathematics, Instituto de Matem´atica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
B.Sc. in Economics, University of S˜ao Paulo (USP)
Research
Interests
Primary: Economic Theory, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics
Secondary: Financial Economics
Papers
“Random Choice as Behavioral Optimization”, Econometrica, forthcoming
(with Faruk Gul and Wolfgang Pesendorfer)
July 2011–present
May 2011
May 2007
2007
2005
2003
“Random Choice and Learning”, updated October 2013
Working Paper
“Subjective Ambiguity and Preference for Flexibility”
Princeton Economic Theory Center Working Paper 006, September 2010
Awards
and
Honors
Earle H. and Suzanne S. Harbison Faculty Fellow, Washington University
2011
Bernard Marcus Fellowship, The Institute for Humane Studies
2010
Stephen Goldfeld Summer Research Fellowship, Princeton University
2008, 2009
Towbes Prize for Outstanding Teaching, Princeton University
2008
Graduate School Fellowship, Princeton University
2005–2010
Fulbright Fellowship for Doctoral Studies in the US (declined)
2005
IPEA National Research Paper Award (Brazil), runner-up
2004
CAPES (National Department for Education, Brazil) Master’s Fellowship 2003–2005
USP Academic Merit Award (top student in graduating class)
2003
S˜ao Paulo State Council of Economists Academic Merit Award
2003
Invited
Talks
2010–2011: Princeton University, University of Toronto, Washington University in St.
Louis, IESE Barcelona, University of Alicante, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Haifa, New York University, D-Day
at Yale University, 2011 Kansas Workshop on Economic Theory at The University of
Kansas, 2011 Risk Uncertainty and Decisions Conference at the Collegio Carlo Alberto,
28th Colloquim of Mathematics at IMPA. 2011–2012: ASU, UBC, D-TEA Paris. 2012–
2013: Berkeley, SBE Meetings, USP, FGV-SP. 2013–2014: University of Pittsburgh,
Harvard/MIT Theory Workshop.
Paulo Natenzon
Teaching
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At Wash U:
Microeconomics I (PhD core)
Fall 2011, 2012
Topics in Advanced Theory I (2nd year PhD)
Fall 2011, 2012
Game Theory (undergraduate)
Fall 2011, 2012
At Princeton:
Junior Independent Work
Assistant Instructor for Professor Peter B. Kenen.
Microeconomic Theory I (PhD core, ECO501)
Assistant Instructor for Professor Faruk Gul.
2009, 2010
Fall 2007, 2008, 2009
Microeconomic Theory: A Mathematical Approach (ECO310)
Assistant Instructor for Professor Stephen Morris.
Spring 2008
Cases in Financial Risk Management (master’s FIN521)
Assistant Instructor for Professor Rossen Valkanov.
Spring 2009
Intermediate Calculus (master’s WWS635C)
Instructor, Math Camp.
Summer 2008
Activities
Referee: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Economic Theory,
Journal of the European Economic Association, Theoretical Economics.
Previous
Experience
Associate Intern, Analysis Group Inc. (San Francisco, CA)
Summer 2007
Developed models and implemented computer code for the valuation of non-standard
Employee Stock Options and other complex instruments.
Research Assistant, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Summer 2006
Conducted data analysis for the paper ‘The Informal Sector’ by Professors Jos´e
´
Scheinkman and Aureo
de Paula.
Analyst, Ministry of Finance (Brazil)
Conducted research on the determinants of labor market informality.
Languages
Summer 2005
English (fluent), Spanish (native), Portuguese (native), and Hebrew (beginner).