Deutsche Bank : Stephen A. Ross receives the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2015

The academic prize is sponsored by the Deutsche Bank Donation Fund and carries an endowment of €50,000. The CFS awards the prize biannually in partnership with Goethe University Frankfurt. It will be presented to Stephen A. Ross as part of an academic symposium in Frankfurt on 24 September 2015. The Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics honors internationally renowned economic researchers whose work has a marked influence on research concerning questions of financial economics and macroeconomics, and has led to fundamental advances in economic theory and practice.

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). Aside from pursuing a distinguished university career, Stephen A. Ross, he holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard, has worked as an advisor to the financial sector, major corporations, and government departments.