After growing up in a small city outside Vancouver, Canada, I moved to Montreal to pursue a degree in economics and mathematics at McGill University. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in economics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. My research involves using alternative approaches to general equilibrium modeling for characterizing how correct price functionals can be determined, without simply assuming they are known prior to any market interactions or trades. Another problem that I am interested in is generalizing the representative agent assumption. The traditional macroeconomic approach to intertemporal optimization involves use of a representative agent, but if all agents are represented by one generic agent, even though we know that the diversity of preferences and attitudes not to mention endowments must matter, how do prices, capital stock and output adjust? One way of resolving such problems involves the concepts of self-organisation and adaptive systems for characterizing the adjustment to equilibrium process-a process that permits out-of-equilibrium trades and which therefore differs fundamentally from standard Arrow-Debreu characterizations.

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