Mark Rubinstein
Mark Edward Rubinstein (June 8, 1944[1] – May 9, 2019) was a leading financial economist and financial engineer. He was Paul Stephens Professor of Applied Investment Analysis at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.[2][3]
He held various other professional offices, directing the American Finance Association, amongst others,
Rubinstein was a senior and pioneering academic in the field of finance, focusing on derivatives, particularly options, and was known for his contributions to both theory and practice,[5] especially portfolio insurance and the binomial options pricing model (also known as the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein model), as well as his work on discrete time stochastic calculus more generally. His book Option Markets, [6] was "the first work that popularized probabilistic and scientific methods in options, helping inaugurate the derivatives revolution."[5] Along with fellow Berkeley finance professor Hayne E. Leland and adjunct professor John O'Brien, Rubinstein developed the portfolio insurance financial product in 1976.[7] (This strategy later became associated with the October 19, 1987, Stock Market Crash; see Black Monday (1987) § Causes). With Leland and O'Brien he also introduced the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the United States. Rubinstein popularized the term "exotic option" in 1990/92 working paper "Exotic Options" (with Eric Reiner), with the term based either on "exotic wagers" in Horse racing, or due to the use of international terms such as "Asian option", suggesting the "exotic Orient".[8]
Rubinstein had been on the Haas faculty since 1972. He was instrumental in building the Haas-Berkeley
He held a
See also
- Compound option
- Edgeworth binomial tree
- Implied binomial tree
- Lattice model (finance)
- Rainbow option
References
- ISBN 9781118161098.
- ^ "Prof. Emeritus Mark Rubinstein, financial engineering pioneer, passes away". Berkeley Haas. 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
- ^ a b Mark Rubinstein CV, at berkeley.edu
- ^ "Mark Rubinstein" on Research Papers in Economics site.
- ^ Nassim Taleb's Review of Derivatives, by Mark Rubinstein
- ISBN 978-0136382058.
- ^ "The Evolution of Portfolio Insurance" Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Palmer, Brian (July 14, 2010). "Why Do We Call Financial Instruments 'Exotic'? Because some of them are from Japan". Slate.
- ^ Master of Financial Engineering Program, mfe.haas.berkeley.edu
- ^ The Berkeley MFE Program has been ranked #1 by Global Derivatives and named one of the top 10 quant schools by Advanced Trading magazine.