Robert Pindyck
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 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Tel-Aviv University, Harvard University, and Columbia University.
With Avinash Dixit he is author of Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press, 1994; ISBN 0691034109), the first textbook exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as “a born-classic” [1] in view of its importance to the theory. With Daniel L. Rubinfeld he is the author of Microeconomics (9th Edition, Pearson, 2018; ISBN 9780134184241), and Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts (4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1998; ISBN 0079132928). His published papers have covered topics in microeconomics and industrial organization, the behavior of natural resource and commodity markets, financial markets, capital investment decisions, the economics of R&D and the valuation of patents, environmental economics, and the economic and policy implications of global catastrophic events.
In addition to his academic research and teaching, Professor Pindyck has been a consultant to a large number of public and private organizations.
Pindyck received bachelor's 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]
