High School, Lakeside (Seattle)

BA, Economics, Harvard University

MBA, Finance, Stanford University

Ph.D., Finance, University of California, Los Angeles

Positions Held

At Haas since 1972

2006 - present Professor of Finance

1995 - 2006 Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

1980 - 1995 Full Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley

1989 - 1995 Director, SuperShare Services Corporation

1984 - 1995 Director, Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates

1981 - 1984 Founding Principal and Executive Vice-President, Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates

1976 - 1980 Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley

1975 - 1976 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley

1975 - 1975 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Washington

1972 - 1975 Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC, Berkeley

1970 - 1972 Teaching Associate, University of California, Los Angeles

External Service and Assignments

Associate Editor: Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of RISK.

Advisory Board, Journal of Investment Management.

Current Research and Interests

The history of the theory of investments

Christianity

Selected Papers and Publications

A History of the Theory of Investments: My Annotated Bibliography, published by Wiley, March 2006.

Great Moments in Financial Economics: IV. The Fundamental Theory, Part II, first quarter 2006.

Great Moments in Financial Economics: IV The Fundamental Theory, Part I, fourth quarter 2005.

"Recovering Probabilities and Risk Aversion from Options Prices and Realized Returns" (with Jens Jackwerth) in The Legacy of Fischer Black, edited by Bruce Lehman, Oxford University Press, April 2004.

Great Moments in Financial Economics: III. Short-Sales and Stock Prices, Journal of Investment Management, first quarter 2004.

All in All, It's Been a Good Life, in The Growth of Modern Risk Management: A History, Risk Books, July 2003.

Great Moments in Financial Economics: I. Present Value, Journal of Investment Management, first quarter 2003; II. Modigliani-Miller Theorem, Journal of Investment Management, second quarter 2003.

Teaching

MFE230A: Fundamentals of Financial Economics

MFE230C: Derivatives: Economic Concepts

UGBA103: Introduction to Finance

UGBA39D: How Christianity became the World's Dominant Religion

Honors and Awards

Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Plaque Award for the best paper to appear in the Financial Analysts Journal during 2001

Earl F. Cheit Teaching Award (MFE, 2003)

CBOE Pomerance Prize for Excellence in Options Research for "Option Pricing: A Simplified Approach" (awarded jointly with John Cox and Stephen Ross), 1978

Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (third prize) for "Tests of Alternative Option Pricing Formulas", 1982

Biennial Leo Melamed Prize for Options Markets (co-authored with John Cox) awarded by the editors of the Journal of Business for the most significant published work by a faculty member of a school of business, 1984-85

Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (first prize) for "Alternative Paths to Portfolio Insurance", 1985

Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Plaque Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1985

Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (third prize) for "Derivative Assets Analysis", 1987

Named "Businessman of the Year" (one of 12) by Fortune magazine (December), 1987

Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Scroll Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1988

Financial Analysts Foundation Graham and Dodd Scroll Award for excellence in financial writing awarded by the Financial Analysts Journal, 1989

Financial Engineer of the Year Award awarded by the International Association of Financial Engineers, 1995

Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance (first prize) for "Recovering Probability Distributions from Option Prices", 1996