Fischer Black

Thinkers1938 to 1995Financial economist

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With Myron Scholes he derived a formula for the price of an option, which Robert C. Merton extended; real options analysis applies the same pricing logic to choices inside a business. Black died in 1995, before the 1997 Nobel Memorial Prize went to Scholes and Merton.

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