Robert C. Merton - Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1997
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Robert C. Merton

Prize
Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — 1997
for a new method to determine the value of derivatives
Together with: Myron Scholes
Citizenship
United StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
7/31/1944
place of birth
New York City
Age
82 years
occupation
  • university teacher
  • economist
field of work
  • economy
  • finance
  • asset pricing
educated at
  • California Institute of Technology
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
employer
  • Long-Term Capital Management
  • Harvard University
  • MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Dimensional Fund Advisors
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
member of
  • Econometric Society
    • start time: 1983
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • James Flaude Gammill
  • Gerard Ivan Gennotte
  • Mark Latham
  • Emerson Philip Jones
  • Eric Richard Rosenfeld
  • Scott Phillip Mason
  • Marshall Barry Goldman
  • Jonathan E. Ingersoll
notable work
  • Black–Scholes model
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