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The Extraordinary Career of Nobel Prize Winner Robert C. Merton
June 18 2020 | Biographical, Interviews
Interview that appeared in Prof. Merton's high school alma mater's newspaper.
Robert C. Merton and the Science of Finance
December 2019 | Biographical, Interviews
Starting with his 1970 doctoral dissertation and continuing to today, Robert C. Merton has revolutionized the theory and practice of finance. In 1997, Merton shared a Nobel Prize in Economics “for a new method to determine the value of derivatives.” His contributions to the science of finance, however, go far beyond that. In this article Dr. Zvi Bodie describes Merton's main contributions.
Why a Nobel laureate in economics thinks bitcoin is toast
November 28 2018 | General News, InterviewsMerton: Combine these 2 financial products to fund retirement
October 17 2017 | Interviews
By Rebecca Linke. Published in the MIT Newsroom.
An Interview with Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton
August 7 2017 | Interviews
with Mark P. Kritzman. CFA Institute, Financial Analysts Journal, Volume 74, no. 1. 2018.