Annual International Conference on Real Options
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The Annual International Conference on Real Options: Theory Meets Practice is a yearly conference organized by the Real Options Group
in cooperation with various top universities. Its stated aim is to "bring together academics and practitioners at the forefront of real options and investment under uncertainty to discuss recent developments and applications."
The conference has taken place in a different location every year from its inception in 1997. Notable keynote speakers have included Robert C. Merton
of Harvard University
, Myron Scholes
of Stanford University
, Robert Pindyck and Stewart Myers
of MIT, and Stephen A. Ross of Yale
.
In 2008 the conference was held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 2009 it was held in Portugal and Spain, and in 2010 in Rome, Italy.
Real Options Group
The Real Options Group is a management consulting firm specializing in the application of Real Options Analysis. The President of ROG is Dr. Lenos Trigeorgis, a pioneer in the field....
in cooperation with various top universities. Its stated aim is to "bring together academics and practitioners at the forefront of real options and investment under uncertainty to discuss recent developments and applications."
The conference has taken place in a different location every year from its inception in 1997. Notable keynote speakers have included Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton
Robert Carhart Merton is an American economist, Nobel laureate in Economics, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.-Biography:...
of Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, Myron Scholes
Myron Scholes
Myron Samuel Scholes is a Canadian-born American financial economist who is best known as one of the authors of the Black–Scholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for a method to determine the value of derivatives...
of Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
, Robert Pindyck and Stewart Myers
Stewart Myers
Stewart Clay Myers is the Robert C. Merton Professor of Financial Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is notable for his work on capital structure and innovations in capital budgeting and valuation, and has had a "remarkable influence" on both the theory and practice of corporate...
of MIT, and Stephen A. Ross of Yale
YALE
RapidMiner, formerly YALE , is an environment for machine learning, data mining, text mining, predictive analytics, and business analytics. It is used for research, education, training, rapid prototyping, application development, and industrial applications...
.
In 2008 the conference was held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in 2009 it was held in Portugal and Spain, and in 2010 in Rome, Italy.
External links
- Annual International Conference on Real Options, official website of the conference