Alan Marcus

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Alan J. Marcus
EducationWesleyan University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)Economist, Author, Professor
Employer(s)Professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Alan J. Marcus is an American economist, and the first recipient of the Mario J. Gabelli Endowed Professorship at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, where he currently teaches. [1] He is an author of several textbooks widely used in finance and MBA programs internationally, including Fundamentals of Corporate Finance with Stewart Myers and Richard A. Brealey. [2] Marcus serves on the advisory board of the CFA Institute. [3]

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Education and background

Marcus graduated with high honors, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa, from Wesleyan University, in 1976. He received his PhD in economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. [1] [4] He also served as a Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, working with Pension, Monetary Economics, and Financial Markets groups. [5]

Academic appointments

Bibliography

Marcus has co-authored textbooks and his work has been published in the area of capital markets and portfolio theory. [5] Some of his works are listed below.

Books

Journal articles

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