Benjamin Holcblat's Short Vitae


Education

2007-present       PhD Student in Economics, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business.

2007-2009           Master of Science in Finance, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business.

2004-2007           "Economist-Statistician" diploma, INSEE-ENSAE ParisTech-CREST. Edmond Malinvaud class. Admitted 4th, and entered 2nd at the 'B/L' national entrance exam. 

2006-2007             Master of Research in Economics, Paris School of Economics-University of Paris at Panthéon Sorbonne.

2001-2004             Classe préparatoire “Literature and Social Sciences” (B/L), Lycée J.Amyot, and then Lycée Lakanal.

2003                    Degree in Economics and Management (DEUG), Evry Val d’Essone University.

 

Work in progress

"More efficient bootstrapping for GMM", March 2008.

"The Empirical Saddlepoint Estimator for Dependent Data with Application to Asset Pricing" with Fallaw Sowell, August 2009.


Seminars


2008-2009
       Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University (October);  Lunch seminar at the Paris School of Economics-University of Paris at Panthéon Sorbonne (March).


Ad-hoc reviewer

Journal of Econometrics


Professional experiences

2006-2007            HSBC group, Sinopia Asset Management.

2005-2006            French Minister of Economy and Finance, Treasury and Economic Policy General Directorate.

Summer 2005        Embassy of France in Moscow, financial and macroeconomics department.