Stephen A. Ross (1944–2017)
Author of Corporate Finance
About the Author
Stephen Alan Ross was born in Boston, Massachusetts on February 3, 1944. He received a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Before joining the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management faculty, he taught at the Wharton show more School at the University of Pennsylvania and at Yale University. He was a seminal theorist whose worked for over three decades to reshape the field of financial economics. He was best known for developing what is called the arbitrage pricing theory. He also created the term agency theory and pioneered what is known as the binomial model for pricing stock options. He wrote more than 100 articles about finance and economics and was the co-author of the textbook Corporate Finance. He received numerous awards including the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize from the Toulouse School of Economics in 2007 and the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics in 2015. He died from sudden cardiac arrest on March 3, 2017 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Stephen A. Ross
Corporate Finance + Student CD-ROM + Standard & Poor's card + Ethics in Finance PowerWeb (Irwin Series in Finance) (2004) 30 copies
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Standard Edition w/Student CD ROM Powerweb Standard & Poor's Educational Version of… (2002) 10 copies
Corporate Finance (The Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (2015) 6 copies
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Alternate Edition (Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) (2002) 3 copies
Corporate Finance: Core Applications and Principles w/S&P bind-in card (McGraw-Hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance… (2008) 3 copies
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR 1 copy
Corporate Finance Supplement 1 copy
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance: The Wall Street Journal Applications in Finance : 1993 (The Irwin Series in Finance) (1992) 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Ross, Stephen Alan
- Birthdate
- 1944-02-03
- Date of death
- 2017-03-03
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Education
- California Institute of Technology (B.S.|Physics|1965)
Harvard University (Ph.D|Economics|1970) - Occupations
- professor (economics)
- Relationships
- Holmström, Bengt (friend, longterm colleague/research collaborator)
Milgrom, Paul (friend, longterm colleague/research collaborator) - Organizations
- American Finance Association
- Awards and honors
- Smith Breeden Prize (2006)
Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics (2015)
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Statistics
- Works
- 48
- Members
- 840
- Popularity
- #30,425
- Rating
- 3.2
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 290
- Languages
- 11