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Matthew W. Thomas
Member #1,933CorporateL2Economist, Federal Trade Commission
Economist at FTC | Northwestern University Economics PhD
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A Laurem Ipsum generator that uses words from Economics journals
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A tool for sharing Markdown and LaTeX formatted math hosted on GitHub Pages — so no backend 😎
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Solve various integral equations using numerical methods in Python
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My personal website made in 11ty. My online and PDF CV are synced using pandoc.
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About
Matthew W. Thomas is an economist at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, US, a role he has held since 2023. He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University, and his research covers microeconomic theory, including auctions, robust design, discrimination, contests, and financial markets. Matthew also builds open-source tools, such as inteq, a Python project for solving integral equations with numerical methods, and econ-ipsum, a placeholder text generator that draws on words from economics journals.
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Economist · Federal Trade Commission
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Wsc Mentor · Wolfram
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Programming Instructor and Teaching Assistant · Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant · Northwestern University
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Analytics Intern · Charles Schwab
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Research Assistant · Williams College
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Student Technical Consultant Manager · Williams College
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Peer Tutor / Teaching Assistant · Williams College
