Merton H. Miller (1923 - 2000) Premio Nobel 1990
Economista estadounidense, profesor en la Universidad de Chicago, obtiene el Premio Nobel de Economía en 1990, compartido con Harry M. Markowitz y William F. Sharpe por su trabajo pionero en la teoría de la economía financiera.
Nacido en Boston, estudió en Harvard, donde coincidió como estudiante con Robert M. Solow. Obtuvo su doctorado en 1952 en la Johns Hopkins University en Baltimore, donde fue discípulo de Fritz Machlup. Trabajó en la London School of Economics 1952-1953, en la Carnegie-Mellon University en donde inició su colaboración sobre finanzas corporativas con Franco Modigliani. En 1961 se traslada a la University of Chicago, habiendo sido también profesor visitante en la Universidad de Lovaina, en Bélgica, en 1966-67.
Obras
"Built-In Flexibility" con R. A. Musgrave, 1948, AER
"An Income Effect of Changing Interest Rates", con M. I. White, 1951, Public Finance
"A Model of Optimal Programming of Railway Freight Train Movements", con A. Charnes, 1956, Management Science
"Mathematical Programming and the Evaluation of Freight Shipment Systems" con A. Charnes, 1957, Naval Research Logistics Quart.
"The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment", 1958, con F. Modigliani, AER
"An Application of Linear Programming to Financial Budgeting and the Costing of Funds" con A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper, 1959, J of Business
"The Carnegie Tech Management Game", con K. Cohen, et al., 1960, J of Business
"Dividend Policy, Growth and the Valuation of Shares" con F. Modigliani, 1961, J of Business
"Corporate Income Taxes and the Cost of Capital: A correction", con F. Modigliani, 1963, AER.
"The Corporation Income Tax and Corporate Financial Policies" 1963, in Stabilization Policies.
"Horizon Rules for a Class of Stochastic Planning Problems" con A. Charnes and J. Dreze, 1966, Econometrica
"Some Estimates of the Cost of Capital in the Electric Utility Industry", con F. Modigliani, 1966, J of Business
"A Model of the Demand for Money by Firms", con D. Orr, 1966, QJE
"A Model of the Demand for Money by Firms: Extensions of Analytical Results", con D. Orr, 1968, J of Finance
The Theory of Finance, with E.F. Fama, 1972
Macroeconomics: A Neoclassical Introduction, con C. Upton, 1974
"Leasing, Buying and the Cost of Capital Services" con C. Upton, 1976, J of Finance
"Debt and Taxes", 1977, J of Finance
"An Approach to the Regulation of Bank Holding Companies", con F. Black and R. A. Posner,1978, J of Business
"The Stochastic Properties of Velocity and the Quantity Theory of Money" con J. P. Gould, C. R. Nelson, y C. Upton, 1978, J of Monetary Economics.
"Prices for State-Contingent Claims: Some Estimates and Applications" con R. Banz, 1978, Journal of Business
"Dividends and Taxes" con M. Scholes, 1978, J of Financial Economics
"Dividends and Taxes: Some empirical evidence" con M. Scholes, 1982, J of Financial Economics
"A Test of the Hotelling Valuation Principle" con C. Upton, 1985, JPE
"Dividend Policy under Asymmetric Information" con K. Rock, 1985, J of Finance
"Behavioral Rationality in Finance: The Case of Dividends," 1986, J of Business (Supp.)
"Economic Costs and Benefits of the Proposed One-Minute Time Bracketing Regulation" con S.J. Grossman, 1986, J of Futures Markets
"Financial Innovation: The Last Twenty Years and the Next," 1986, J of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
"Liquidity and Market Structure", with S.J. Grossman, 1988, J of Finance
"The Modigliani-Miller Propositions after Thirty Years," 1988, JEP
"Margin Regulation and Stock Market Volatility" con D. Hsieh, 1990, J of Finance
"The Crash of 1987: Bubble or Fundamental?" 1990, in Pacific-Basin Capital Markets Research
Financial Innovations and Market Volatility, 1991
"Leverage", 1991, J of Finance
"Tax Obstacles to Voluntary Corporate Restructuring," 1991, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"Financial Innovation: Achievements and Prospects", 1992, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"Index Futures and Market Volatility: What Does the Evidence Show?", 1992, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"Index Arbitrage: Villain or Scapegoat" 1992, J of Financial Engineering
"Are the Discounts on Closed-End Funds a Sentiment Index?" 1993, Journal of Finance
"Is American Corporate Governance Fatally Flawed?", 1994, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"Functional Regulation", 1994, Pacific Basin Finance Journal
"Metallgesellschaft and the Economics of Synthetic Storage", con C. L. Culp, 1995, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"Do the M&M Propositions Apply to Banks?" 1995, J of Banking and Finance
Merton Miller on Derivatives, 1997
"Clustering and Competition in Asset Markets" con S. J. Grossman, K. R. Cone, D. R. Fischel, y D. J. Ross, 1997, JLawE
"The M&M Propositions after 40 Years," 1998, European Financial Management Journal
"Value at Risk: Uses and Abuses", con C.L. Culp and A. Neves, 1998, J of Applied Corporate Finance
"The Derivatives Revolution After Thirty Years", 1999, J of Portfolio Management
"The History of Finance," 1999, J of Portfolio Management