Sergio Turner

Employment

Tufts University

Lecturer of Economics 9/'13 -

Teaching undergraduate and master's students

Red Rock

Website Optimizer 8/'08 - 1/'14

Attracting & converting visitors to small business websites.

Brown University

Assistant Professor of Economics 7/'04 - 7/'08

Taught and advised undergraduate & PhD students, pursued own research.

Education

PhD

Yale University, Economics 12/'04

Dissertation: Welfare Impact of Policy in Incomplete Markets: Theory and Computation

Advisors: Prof. John Geanakoplos, Prof. Donald Brown, Prof. Stephen Morris

BS

UC-Berkeley, Applied Mathematics 12/'97

Magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Research

Published

Tirelli, Mario and Sergio Turner, Quantifying the cost of risk in consumption, The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 10(1) (2010) article 31

Tirelli, Mario and Sergio Turner, A social welfare function characterizing competitive equilibria of incomplete financial markets, Research in Economics, 64 (2010) 58-65

Working

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Principles of Economics Su15
  • Introduction to Econometrics F13
  • Introduction to Finance Su03, Su14
  • Introduction to Game Theory F13, S14, F14, S15, F15, S16
  • Quantitative Financial Economics F14, F15
  • Quantitative International Finance F14, F15
  • General Equilibrium Theory S07, S08
  • Intermediate Microeconomics (Honors) F04, F05
  • Intermediate Microeconomics Su07, Su08
  • Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory Su14
  • Quantitative Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory S15, S16

Graduate

  • Microeconomic Theory II S14
  • Finance & Mechanism Design in Continuous Time S07, S08
  • Theory of Incomplete Asset Markets S06
  • Mathematics for Economists S05, S06; F06, F07, F08

Awards

Graduate

  • Carl Arvid Anderson Fellowship, Yale ‘02-‘03
  • Yale Dissertation Fellowship S ‘02
  • Cowles Foundation Prize ‘99, ‘00, ‘01
  • Yale University Fellowship ‘98-‘02

Undergraduate

  • Student Research Opportunities Program, UC-Berkeley summer ‘97
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates - NSF, Carnegie-Mellon summer ‘06
  • AEA Summer Program, Stanford summer ‘05

Service

Advising

  • Norovsambuu Tumennasan, PhD (now at Aarhus University) ‘05-‘09
  • Matthias Cinyabuguma, PhD (now at U. of Maryland-Baltimore County) ‘04-‘05
  • Luciana Fiorini, PhD (now at The University of Western Australia) ‘04-‘05
  • Emily Roessel, senior thesis ‘05-‘06
  • Sebastian Benthall, directed study spring & summer ‘05-‘06
  • Undergraduate advisor for Applied Math-Econ, Math-Econ, Engr-Econ, Comp Sci-Econ majors ‘05-‘09

Organizing

  • Co-organizer, NSF/NBER/CEME Conference in GE-Mathematical Economics ‘08
  • Co-creator, Finance track in Applied Math-Economics major spring ‘07
  • Organizer, Brown theory workshop Fall ‘06
  • Co-organizer, Brown theory workshop Fall ‘04 & ‘05

Hiring

  • Assistant Professor in micro theory 12/'06
  • Post-doc in micro theory ‘06,‘07
  • PhD admissions ‘04

Refereeing

  • Econometrica
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • Journal of Mathematical Economics
  • Berkeley Electronic Press
  • International Economic Review

References

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Professor John Geanakoplos
Yale University
Department of Economics
Box 208281
New Haven, CT 06520-8281
(203) 432-3397
john.geanakoplos@yale.edu

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Professor Andrew Foster
Brown University
Department of Economics
64 Waterman St.
Providence, RI 02912
(401) 863-2537
afoster@brown.edu

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Director Stephen Zarlenga
American Monetary Institute
www.monetary.org
PO Box 601
Valatie, NY 12184
(518) 392-5387
ami@taconic.net

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