Robert C. Merton Quotes


School work and intellectual interests such as music and the arts were not especially important to me while I was growing up, although mathematics, my favorite subject, was fun. Baseball was my first passion: I played sand lot and Little League and rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.


Citations

Merton, Robert C. "Robert C. Merton - Biographical." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 1997.

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Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton
  • Born: July 31, 1944
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Economist

Robert Cox Merton 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 1993 Merton co-founded hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management.