Lakshman Achuthan

Lakshman Achuthan, renown economist and Managing Director of the Economic Cycle Research Institute will speak on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 6:30 PM. He will discuss the chaotic state of the U.S. Economy and what contributed to what is, in his mind, a "recession." Lakshman is the author of "Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy" and has been dubbed "Mr. Business Cycle."

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Date - April 14th, 2008

Robert Engle

Robert Engle, the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Economics for his research on autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH). Professor Engle's interest in financial econometrics covers equities, interest rates, exchange rates and option pricing. He is currently developing methods to analyze large systems of assets, real-time volatility, market microstructure and extreme market movements.

Before joining NYU Stern in 2000, Professor Engle was Chancellor's Associates Professor and Economics Department Chair at the University of California, San Diego, and as an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Date - March 6, 2008

John Nash

Professor Nash's name is synonymous with defining work in game theory, but perhaps most impressive is the breadth and depth of concentrations his work influences. He is regarded as one of the founder's of modern economic, pure mathematical and differential geometric game theory, and still to this day pursues innovation in these and related fields. The Economics Honors Society was proud to host Professor Nash as he presented some of his newest materials to a crowd of over 450 members of the NYU community. He spoke on "ideal money" and the evolution of capital markets, as well as the philosophical and pragmatic implications of money in society.

Event - "Ideal Money and Asymptotically Ideal Money"
Date - February 15, 2008
Location - Schimmel Auditorium @ 7:00PM-8:30PM
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Shireen Naderi

Shireen Naderi of Sales Recruitment at Bloomberg LP will be speaking on the wide range of career opportunities at Bloomberg.

Event - "Bloomberg Career Information"
Date - November 27, 2007
Location - Tisch 201 @ 4:45PM-6:00PM
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Greg Margolies

Greg Margolies is a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch and in charge of Leveraged Finance. He will be speaking about the credit market and how banks are reconciling this major issue.

Event - "The Credit Crunch"
Date - September 20, 2007
Location - TBA
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Bob Litterman

Bob Litterman is the Head of Quantitative Resources at Goldman Sachs. In this role, he oversees Quantitative Investment Strategies and Global Investment Strategies. Quantitative Investment Strategies is a portfolio management business formerly known individually as the Quantitative Equities and Quantitative Strategies Groups, and Global Investment Strategies is an institutional investment research group. Bob is the codeveloper, along with the late Fischer Black, of the Black-Litterman Global Asset Allocation Model, a key tool in the Investment Management Division's asset allocation process. Prior to moving to the Investment Management Division, Bob was head of the firmwide Risk Department. Preceding his time in the Operations, Technology & Finance Division, he spent eight years in the Fixed Income Division's research department, where he was co-director. Bob became a partner in 1994.

Before joining the firm in 1986, Bob was an assistant vice president in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bob earned a BS from Stanford University in 1973 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1980.

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Date - October 29, 2007
Location - TBA
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