Robert C. Merton, 1944-
Robert Merton won the 1997 Nobel
Prize together with Myron Scholes for their derivative
pricing formula.
Major Works of Robert C. Merton
- "A Complete Model of Warrant Pricing that Maximizes Utility", with P.A. Samuelson, 1969, Industrial Management Review
- "Lifetime Portfolio Selection under Uncertainty: The continuous time case",
1969, REStat
- "Optimum Consumption and Portfolio Rules in a Continuous Time Model", 1971, JET
- "An Analytic Derivation of the Efficient Portfolio Frontier", 1972, J of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis
- "An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model", 1973, Econometrica
- "Theory of Rational Option Pricing", 1973, Bell JE
- "On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: the risk structure of interest rates",
1974, J of Finance
- "The Fallacy of the Log-Normal Approximation to Optimal Portfolio Decision Making
Over Many Periods", with P.A. Samuelson, 1974, J of
Financial Econ
- "An Asymptotic Theory of Growth under Uncertainty", 1975, RES
- "Theory of Finance from the Perspective of Continuous Time", 1975, J of
Financial and Quantit Analysis
- "Option Pricing when the Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous", 1976, J
of Financial Econ
- "On the Pricing of Contingent Claims and the Modigliani-Miller Theorem", 1977,
J of Financial Econ
- "A Re-Examination of the Capital Asset Pricing Model", 1977, in Friend and
Bicksler, editors, Studies in Risk and Return
- "On the Cost of Deposit Insurance when there are Surveillance Costs", 1978, J
of Business
- "On Estimating Expected Returns on the Market: An exploratory investigation",
1980, J of Financial Econ
- "On the Microeconomic Theory of Investment and Certainty", 1982, in Arrow and
Intriligator, editors, Handbook of Mathematical Economics: Vol. 2.
- "On the Mathematics and Economics Assumptions of Continuous- Time Financial
Models", 1982, in Sharpe and Cootner, editors, Financial Economics
- "Variance Bounds in a Simple Model of Asset Pricing", 1982, JPE
- "Dividend Variability and Variance Bounds Tests for the Rationality of Stock Market
Prices", with T. Marsh, 1986, AER
- "A Simple Model of Capital Market Equilibrium with Incomplete Information",
1987, J of Finance
- "On the Current State of the Stock Market Rationality Hypothesis", 1987, in
Fisher, Dornbush and Bossons, editors, Macroeconomics and Finance
- "On the Application of Continuous-Time Theory of Finance to Financial
Intermediation and Insurance", 1989, Papers on Risk and Insurance
- Continuous Time Finance, 1990.
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