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.
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.
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]