MYRON J. GORDON

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Professor Emeritus of Finance
Rotman School of Management
University of Toronto

Degrees and Honours

B.A. Wisconsin (1941), M.A. Harvard (1947), Ph.D Harvard (1952)
LL.D (Hon.) McMaster (1993)
Ford Foundation Faculty Fellow - 1962-1963
Connaught Faculty Fellow - 1982-1983
President, American Finance Association - 1975-76
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada - 1993
Honorary Doctorate, University of Toronto, 2005

Research Interests

The use of accounting and finance in the decentralized control of large corporations
Cost of capital and valuation of corporations
Comparison of market and regulation in control utility companies
China's economic development
Growth and security under welfare capitalism and market socialism

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Faculty Biography: Myron J. Gordon

Recent Papers

"The Finite Horizon Expected Return Model"

(co-authored with Joseph R. Gordon) 

Financial Analysts Journal 53.3 (May/June 1997), 52-61


 "Monopoly Power in the United States Manufacturing Sector, 1899 to 1994"
Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics 20.3 (Spring 1998), 323-35

“Consumption and Investment when Bankruptcy is not a Fate Worse Than Death,”

(co-authored with Suresh P. Sethi)

In P. Arestis, ed., Method, Theory and Policy in Keynes: Essays in Honour of Paul Davidson, Vol. 3. 

(London: Elgar, 1998) 88-108.  For a copy of this paper, please contact the author.

 

“Don’t Sell Hydro Short”

Policy Options 20.5(June 1999): 61‑64).

 

 

“Why Foreign Ownership Is A Problem – And What To Do About It”

Policy Options May 2000; pp. 52-55.

 

"Growth and Security under Welfare-Corporate Capitalism and Market Socialism"
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 21: 3(83) (July 2001) 65-80. 

“Capitalism’s Growth Imperative” (with Jeffrey S. Rosenthal)

Cambridge Journal of Economics 27 (2003): 25-48

 

“Is China’s Financial System Threatened By Its Policy Loans Debt?”

Journal of Asian Economics, 14 (2003) 181-188.

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"How Third World Contracting is Transformed into First World Productivity."

Challenge, January/February 2004, 47:1, 78-85.

 

"Growth, Uncertainty and the Third World in the Rise and Fall of Capitalism"

Forthcoming in Journal of Asian Economics, March/April 2005

 

Working Papers

Available in the Rotman Working Papers in Finance Series:
"Multinational Corporations, Productivity Growth and National Welfare in Host and Home Country:
A Canada-U.S. Comparison " (Revision: Nov. 28, 2001)

"A Stock Market Model" (co-authored with Suresh P. Sethi)

Useful Links

Professor Myron J. Gordon
Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto
105 St. George Street,
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3E6