Robert Pindyck

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Robert Stephen Pindyck (born January 5, 1945) is an American economist, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance at Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research.

With Avinash Dixit he is author of “Investment Under Uncertainty” (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0691034109), the first text-book exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as “a born-classic” [1] in view of its importance to the theory.

Pindyck received bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from M.I.T. in 1966, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. in 1967, and a Ph.D. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1971.[2]

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Robert Pindyck personal website