Robert C. Merton
Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is best known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, particularly the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model.
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- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHarvard Business SchoolCalifornia Institute of TechnologyFu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the Econometric Society🏆 honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong🏆 honorary degree of HEC Paris🏆 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul Samuelson
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Jonathan E. Ingersoll📖 James Flaude Gammill
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1944
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