Kalman J. Cohen (3 February 1931 – 12 September 2010) was an American

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social sciences, social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...

and among the pioneers of studying

market microstructure Market microstructure is a branch of finance concerned with the details of how exchange occurs in markets. While the theory of market microstructure applies to the exchange of real or financial assets, more evidence is available on the microstruct ...

. Cohen was the Distinguished Bank Research Professor at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

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. He served at Duke since 1974. Prior to joining the Duke faculty, he was a tenured professor at

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and

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. He also taught as a visiting professor in Sweden, Denmark, China, and Singapore.

Career

Cohen received his B.A. degree in mathematics at

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in 1951. He was awarded a

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to study mathematical logic at Oxford University where he earned a M.Litt. degree. He completed M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics at Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was awarded the

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and received numerous scholarships, fellowships, and research grants from many sources including the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the FDIC. Cohen published eight books and over eighty articles in the fields of management science in banking, security market microstructure, corporate finance, computer simulation, management games, and microeconomics.

Personal life

Cohen died on September 12, 2010.

References

* * 20th-century American economists Reed College alumni Carnegie Mellon University alumni Duke University faculty 2010 deaths 1932 births {{US-economist-stub