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David K.A. Mordecai was Invited to Present at the NABE 2012 Annual Conference: Bridging the Gap Between Finance and the Real Economy
David K.A. Mordecai, President of Risk Economics, was invited to presented at the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) 2012 Annual Conference: Bridging the Gap Between Finance and the Real Economy, held on October 13-16, 2012 in New York City. David Mordecai’s presentation was entitled Computational Economics and Big Data: How Technology is Transforming Business Decision Making. The other panelists


David K.A. Mordecai Served as a Technical Advisor to the Unsecured Creditor Committee in the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy Proceedings
David K.A. Mordecai served as a technical advisor to the Unsecured Creditor Committee (“UCC”) in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy proceedings. In this capacity, his role involved technical oversight and peer review for a valuation team conducting independent analysis on behalf of the UCC with regard to an extensive portfolio of structured notes with complex payoffs


David K.A. Mordecai Testified Regarding the Dynamics of the Auction Rate Securities Market
David K.A. Mordecai, testified regarding the dynamics of the auction rate securities (ARS) market before, during, and following the financial crisis at a FINRA arbitration hearing on behalf of Lehman Brothers, Inc. and certain of its employees. A former corporate client of Lehman’s asserted several causes of action against Lehman, including breach of contract, suitability,


Risk Economics Sponsored the IAFE/SunGard 2011 Financial Engineer of the Year Award Gala
Risk Economics® sponsored the IAFE/SunGard 2011 Financial Engineer of the Year (FEOY) Award Gala Dinner honoring Dr. Robert Engle. Robert Engle is an expert in time series analysis with a long-standing interest in the analysis of financial markets. His ARCH model and its generalizations have become indispensable tools not only for researchers, but also for analysts of


Risk Economics Sponsored TEDx Manhattan: Changing the Way We Eat 2012
Risk Economics sponsored the second annual TEDx Manhattan 2012: Changing the Way We Eat. This one-day TEDx event explored the food system as we shift to a more sustainable way of eating and farming. The goal of “Changing the Way We Eat” was to create new synergies, connections and collaborations across disciplines, to unite different areas


David K.A. Mordecai was Invited to Present at a Conference Sponsored by the Department of Treasury Office of Financial Research and Financial Stability Oversight Council
David K.A. Mordecai, President of Risk Economics, was invited to present at The Macroprudental Toolkit: Measurement and Analysis Conference sponsored by the Department of Treasury Office of Financial Research (OFR) and Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC). David K.A. Mordecai served as a panelist for a discussion based on the OFR working paper entitled Forging Best Practices in Risk Management that he co-authored with Mark