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View three larger pictures. Merton another pioneer in the development of the valuation of stock-options [ ]. A Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously but Fischer Black would undoubtedly have been a joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics had he lived. In their announcement of the Prize, the Nobel Committee paid tribute to Black's key role [ ].

In , Fischer Black earned his bachelor's degree in physics. In , he earned a PhD from Harvard University in applied mathematics. A seminal influence in his transition was Jack Treynor, who was also at Arthur D. Little at the time and was at one time the editor of the Financial Analysts Journal. Treynor was one of the co-developers, along with W.

Black started working on the CAPM with respect to both empirical and theoretical work. The key insight of the CAPM was that the excess return of an individual stock over the risk-free rate is proportional the so-called beta of the stock to the excess return of the stock-market. Black viewed the excess return on an individual stock as being linked to the riskiness of that stock, otherwise no-one would buy the stock.

He extended this idea into pricing options. In , Black founded his own consulting firm, Associates in Finance. The question of how call-options should be priced had been the subject of long intellectual debates, commencing from the early sixties and other economists for example see the paper by Spenkle, [ ] had come close to the Black-Scholes Formula.

Black and Scholes worked intensely on this problem, from to , in a friendly competition with a student of Samuelson's, Robert Merton. From - 75 , Black was at the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business first as visiting professor and then as a full professor.