Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance
areas of expertise: microeconomics, antitrust, financial markets, energy and commodity markets, investment decisions under uncertainty, economic and policy implications of global catastrophic risk, environmental policy, environmental catastrophes
Robert S. Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance in the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a fellow of the Econometric Society, and he has been a visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University, Harvard University and Columbia University.
Pindyck's research and writing have covered topics in microeconomics and industrial organization, the behavior of resource and commodity markets, financial markets, capital investment decisions and econometric modeling. His recent work in economics and finance has examined the determinants of market structure and market power, the dynamics of commodity spot and futures markets, criteria for investing in risky projects, the economics of R&D and the value of patents, environmental policy, and the economic and policy implications of global catastrophic events.
Pindyck has published numerous academic journal articles, and he is also the author or co-author of seven books, including three popular textbooks: Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts (McGraw-Hill), Microeconomics (Prentice Hall) and Investment Under Uncertainty (Princeton University Press). He has been co-editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics. In addition to his academic research and teaching, Pindyck has been a consultant to a large number of public and private organizations.
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