Monday, April 24, 2006

Employment Opportunity

Hello everyone,

Prof. Filer circulated an e-mail announcing job openings for a firm where two of our graduate alumni hold positions. Here is the firm's self-description:

"o3 Technology Solutions LLC, provides a competitive edge for many of the most demanding and influential financial institutions by delivering pragmatic domain and technology consulting expertise in support of derivative trading, risk management and capital market solutions from the leading application vendors."

It sounds IT-intensive, but they are looking for soon-to-be MA grads. The e-mail is too lengthy to post, but if you did not receive the initial correspondence, let me know, and I'll forward it to you.

Tavneet Suri talk moved to May 1

From Profs. Conning and Nyman:


Dear Everyone,

Change of schedule: We have moved Tavneet Suri's brown bag seminar to
Monday May 1. Therefore there will be NO SEMINAR ON MONDAY April 24th as
previously announced.

The talk details are now as follows:

MONDAY MAY 1 at 11:30AM-1PM
Tavneet Suri (Yale/MIT Sloan)
"Selection and Comparative Advantage in Technology Adoption"

Papers and schedule at: http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/RePEc/seminar/

Jonathan and Ingmar

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Project Help Group Update

***UPDATE***- I will not be in on Wednesday at all, or Thursday until the evening, as I'm a bit under the weather; however, someone will be there to unlock the TA lounge both days, and the snacks, soda, and tea are still there.

The Project Help Groups will be meeting from 10-5 monday, and approximately 10am-8pm the other days (It may thin out as it gets later, but I will stay to try to help those people who work during the day). We have scheduled the conference room starting at 9am all 5 days, but it takes me two hours to get there, so all I can promise is that I will be there to unlock it between 9-10am.

Other notes:
The group is for people who are having technical problems, e.g. "is this a good instrument," "do I need this dummy variable,""I have holes in my data about energy usage in some countries," "I'm having issues with stat-transfer,""I'm not sure if running the regression this way is testing for exactly what I'm trying to test for," etc..

BRING YOUR STUDENT ID- While we have reserved the room, security may be checking student IDs on the way in. Also be aware that the bookstore has shortened hours and the cafeteria is closed. (There will only be snack foods and soda at the conference room).

When you show up for the group, you should have most of your data... this means you should understand your hypothesis thoroughly, and have at least a ballpark estimate of what variables you will need. If there is some data you know you need, but are having difficulty actually finding it, we will be glad to try to help. Nobody expects you to be done with your project, and everyone expects that at some point you will probably discover a need to add some additional variables to cut down or get rid of endogenaity in your u term. Due to everyone elses high workload, please do not come unprepared, very few people, if any, will have the time to actually read your entire proposal, and of those, nobody will have the time to tell you with any degree of precision exactly how you should go about executing your entire proposal (which is something that should be in your proposal anyway). I apologize if this seems brusque, but I've received several requests for help over the last two days that indicate at least a few of you who are planning on going to these sessions need to first see Professor Deb about your final proposal as laid out in homework 3.