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Robert C. Merton

1944 - Today

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Robert Cox Merton (born July 31, 1944) is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, especially the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model. In 1997 Merton together with Myron Scholes were awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for the method to determine the value of derivatives. Merton was on the board of directors of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a highly leveraged hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, wiping out most of the value paid in by the investors, and requiring a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Merton's current research focus is on the topics of lifecycle investing and retirement funding, measuring and monitoring systemic risks in macrofinance, and financial innovation coupled with changing dynamics in financial institutions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert C. Merton has received more than 530,429 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Robert C. Merton is the 134th most popular economist (up from 136th in 2019), the 1,817th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,802nd in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Robert C. Merton ranks 134 out of 414. Before him are George Stigler, John Harsanyi, James Meade, Eugene Fama, Ernest Mandel, and Christopher A. Sims. After him are Angus Deaton, W. Arthur Lewis, Clive Granger, James Mirrlees, Robert Fogel, and Dani Rodrik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Robert C. Merton ranks 131. Before him are Ian Wilmut, Ferenc Bene, Jane Hawking, Chris Patten, Roger Scruton, and Agnes Baltsa. After him are Petar Zhekov, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Norodom Ranariddh, Herbert Wimmer, Gianfranco Ferré, and Gary Busey.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert C. Merton ranks 1,817 out of 20,380. Before him are Philip Abelson (1913), Charles Duke (1935), Paul L. Smith (1936), Cole Porter (1891), Floyd Patterson (1935), and Bob Fosse (1927). After him are Marcheline Bertrand (1950), Joan Rivers (1933), Susan Atkins (1948), Eric Carr (1950), Wallace Shawn (1943), and Ub Iwerks (1901).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Robert C. Merton ranks 43. Before him are Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Robert J. Shiller (1946), Alan Greenspan (1926), George Stigler (1911), Eugene Fama (1939), and Christopher A. Sims (1942). After him are Robert Fogel (1926), James Heckman (1944), Vernon L. Smith (1927), Jeffrey Sachs (1954), Robert F. Engle (1942), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916).

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