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Lintner was born in Lone Elm, Kansas. He received the Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1946, becoming a member of the faculty a year earlier. He remained a member of the Harvard faculty throughout his career and was designated the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in 1964, with a joint appointment in the Business School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Economics.
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- Asset pricing
- Capital asset pricing model
- Capital formation under inflation
- Dividend policy
- Financial markets theory
- Lintner, J. V.
- Merger analysis
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Weston, J.F. (2018). Lintner, John Virgil (1916–1983). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1242
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