Career
He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. With Avinash Dixit he is author of “Investment Under Uncertainty” (Princeton University Press, 1994. ), the first text-book exclusively about the real options approach to investments, and described as “a born-classic” in view of its importance to the theory.
Pindyck received bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966, a master"s degree in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1971.