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Robert C. Merton, an Uncommon card
Robert Cox Merton is an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate, and professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 126
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 39,000
Power 126 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert C. Merton quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert C. Merton card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
In ____, Merton and Myron Scholes were jointly awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for developing a method to determine the value of derivative securities.
Answer
1990s. In 1997, Merton and Myron Scholes were jointly awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for developing a method to determine the value of derivative securities. From the Robert C. Merton article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Projective space. Projective space 72 · Robert C. Merton 69 · André-Jacques Garnerin 62 · Solar eclipse of September 21, 2025 57 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his pioneering contributions to continuous-time finance, particularly the first continuous-time option pricing model, the Black–Scholes–Merton model.
- In 1997, Merton and Myron Scholes were jointly awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for developing a method to determine the value of derivative securities.
- Merton was on the board of directors of Long-Term Capital Management, a highly leveraged hedge fund that collapsed in 1998, wiping out most of the value paid in by the investors, and requiring a $3.6 billion bailout from a group of 14 banks, in a deal brokered and put together by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert C. Merton article was read about 39,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Robert C. Merton (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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