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作者簡介：Robert S.Pindyck is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor In Economics and Finance in the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research,and a Fellow of the Econometric Society,and has been a Visiting Professor of Economics at Tel-Aviv University.He received his Ph.D.in Economics from M.I.T in 1971. Professor Pindyck's research and writing have covered a variety of topics in microeconomics and industuial organization,including the effects of uncertainty on firm behavior and market structure,determinants of market power,the behavior of natural resource,commodity,and financial markets,and criteria for investment decisions.He has been a consultant to a number of public and private organizations,and is currently co-editor of The Review of Economics and Statistics.He is also the co-author with Daniel Rubinfeld of Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts,a best-selling textbook that may or may not be turned into a feature film。