Center for Financial Studies an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt
Stephen A. Ross receives Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2015
Stephen A. Ross receives Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2015 – Center for Financial Studies honors laureate with high level academic symposium entitled “What Market Prices Tell Us” – Nobel Laureates Eugene F. Fama and Robert C. Merton amongst the distinguished speakers – Jürgen Fitschen, Co-Chief Executive Officer Deutsche Bank AG, and Jan P. Krahnen, Jury Chairman and CFS Director, present the award – Laudation by Professor Philip H. Dybvig
Plenary lectures about “Term Structure of Interest Rates” and “Historical Asset Prices” will be held by Nobel Laureate and Jury member Robert C. Merton and by K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Professor of Corporate Finance at Yale University. A panel of renowned economists will subsequently discuss the topic “Understanding Efficient Markets: Limits of Policy Influence”. The panel will include Eugene F. Fama, winner of the Deutsche Bank Prize 2005 and Nobel Laureate 2013, Martin F. Hellwig, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and Josef Zechner, CFS Jury member 2005 and Professor of Finance and Investments at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. Stephen A. Ross was announced as laureate in March 2015. Jürgen Fitschen, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank AG, and Jan P. Krahnen, Jury Chairman and CFS Director, will present the award to Ross during a ceremony prior to the symposium. Philip H. Dybvig, Professor of Banking and Finance at Washington University, will give the laudation. Jürgen Fitschen says: “As one of the most influential financial economists of our time, Stephen A. Ross is a very deserving award winner of the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. The models developed by him have not only profoundly shaped economic theory but also influenced financial practice and policy during the past 25 years.” Jan P. Krahnen points out: “We feel privileged to have gathered some of the world’s most distinguished researchers for our symposium in honor of Stephen A. Ross. This underlines Ross’s fundamental contributions to the analytical development of financial economics and attests to the international reputation of the award.” “I feel honored that such a high-profile Jury has awarded me with the renowned Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics,” says Stephen A. Ross. “I would also like to thank my much-respected academic colleagues for participating in the symposium organized by the Center for Financial Studies. In the light of the growing complexity of financial markets, an exchange of ideas and approaches is crucial to advance the understanding of market mechanisms.” Stephen A. Ross’s wide range of research interests include the economics of uncertainty, corporate finance, decision theory, and financial econometrics. He is the inventor of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Theory of Agency, and the Recovery Theory. He is further the co-creator of Risk-Neutral Pricing and of the Binomial Model for Pricing Derivatives. Ross’s work has been central to the modern analysis of term structure models and his theories provide standards for pricing in major securities trading firms, useful for retirement accounts and for new financial products that may allow households to insure a wider range of risks. Stephen A. Ross is the Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Sloan School of Management and has held academic appointments at other renowned universities such as Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School). Ross has not only pursued a distinguished university career, but has also advised the financial sector, major corporations, and government departments. Ross holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. While being a globally recognized academic and a widely published author in finance and economics Stephen A. Ross is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Moreover, in 1988 he led the American Finance Association as its president. Ross currently also serves as an associate editor of several economics and finance journals. He is the author of more than 100 articles in economics and finance and the co-author of the best-selling textbook “Corporate Finance”. Stephen A. Ross has been elected by a Jury of internationally renowned experts in financial research and practice. Members of the Jury, alongside the Chairman Jan Pieter Krahnen, are the professors Guillermo Calvo (Columbia University), David Folkerts-Landau (Chief Economist at Deutsche Bank), Michael Haliassos (CFS Director), Otmar Issing (CFS President), Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University), Holger Kraft (Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the Finance Department), Robert C. Merton (Nobel Laureate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), René M. Stulz (Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business), Uwe Walz (CFS Director), and Mirko Wiederholt (Goethe University Frankfurt, Director of the Money and Macroeconomics Department).
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