Phil Maymin

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name =Phil Maymin
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1975|4|28|mf=y
birth_place = Moscow, Russia
residence =Greenwich, Connecticut
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party =Libertarian
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spouse = Yelena Maymin
children = One daughter
website = [http://mayminforcongress.com Maymin for Congress]

[http://www.maymin.com Maymin family website]

[http://phil.maymin.com Phil Maymin info page]
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Phil Maymin is an [http://www.poly.edu/faculty/philmaymin Assistant Professor of Finance and Risk Engineering] at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He was the 2006 Libertarian candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's 4th congressional district. He was born in 1975 in Moscow, Russia.

Education

Maymin graduated from Harvard University in 1997 where he earned a B.A. in computer science and an M.S. in applied mathematics in 3 and a half years.

In December, 2007, he graduated with a [http://phil.maymin.com/drphil.jpgPhD.] in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His dissertation was entitled [http://phil.maymin.com/Maymin-SILTA-thesis.pdf "Self-Imposed Limits to Arbitrage."] His dissertation committee members were Richard Thaler (chair), Nicholas Barberis, Toby Moskowitz, and Lubos Pastor.

Political career

2006 congressional campaign

In 2006, Phil Maymin ran as the Libertarian candidate against incumbent Republican Representative Christopher Shays and two-time Democratic challenger Diane Farrell. The three of them debated each other seven times (YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=maymin highlights] ).

Maymin was the subject of hundreds of newspaper articles and had dozens of radio appearances, including national ones on XM Satellite Radio. [Maymin for Congress. [http://www.mayminforcongress.com/news.htm News] . Retrieved December 10, 2007.] Maymin appeared on national live television twice, once with Tucker Carlson ( [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBOcZ00kM9Y video] ) and once on MSNBC News Live with David Shuster ( [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2eukklVceM video] ).

FactCheck.org called Maymin's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0DM72Nb_SA I Approve This Massage] campaign ad the [http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2006/our_2006_awards.html "Best Send-up of an Ineffective Federal Mandate."]

On November 7, 2006, Phil Maymin received about 1.5% of the total votes, more than half of the margin separating Shays and Farrell. [Connecticut Secretary of the State. [http://www.sots.ct.gov/RegisterManual/SectionVIII/SOV06Congress.htm#Fourth Election Results] . November 7, 2006. Retrieved December 10, 2007.]

Maymin and his campaign were the subject of a Washington Post documentary called [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/11/09/VI2006110900056.html "Running for a Change"] by an award-winning videographer.

Other activities

Phil Maymin is a Policy Scholar for the [http://yankeeinstitute.org Yankee Institute for Public Policy] , a columnist for the [http://fairfieldweekly.com Fairfield County Weekly] , [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562722/ an actor] , and a Justice of the Peace in Greenwich, Connecticut. [Town of Greenwich, CT. [http://greenwichct.virtualtownhall.net/public_documents/GreenwichCT_Justices/JusticesOfThePeaceList.pdf List of Justices of the Peace] . Retrieved December 10, 2007.] He has also been a portfolio manager at Long-Term Capital Management, Ellington Management Group, and a hedge fund he co-founded with his father, Maymin Capital Management. [Maymin for Congress. [http://www.mayminforcongress.com/bio.htm Biography] . Retrieved December 10, 2007.]

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