Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced. Merton had the office on the other side of my office. You see the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Index funds initially were brought to market by Vanguard founder Jack Bogle, whose idea for the S&P 500 Index fund was heavily influenced by two economists: late great MIT economist Paul Samuelson and Princeton’s Burton Malkiel, author of the classic, A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2016

In the case of stock options, the EFV formula is typically a Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model that, rooted in the “efficient markets hypothesis,” assumes that changes in a company’s stock-price exhibit a log-normal distribution and thus predicts that most stock-price changes will be very small.

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