Roman Lee Weil, Jr. (born May 22, 1940) is an American economist, accountant, consultant, and Emeritus faculty member of

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at the

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, especially known for his work on bond duration.

Biography

Roman L. Weil was born in 1940 in

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, to Roman L. Weil, Sr. and Charlotte Alexander Weil (the sister of architect Cecil Alexander). He graduated from

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in Montgomery in 1958. Weil obtained in 1962 his BA in economics and mathematics from

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, in 1965 his MA in industrial administration, and in 1966 his PhD in economics both at the 1966 from the

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at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1973 he became a Certified Public Accountant, and in 1974 a

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.Roman L. Weil, biography
Accessed 16.12.2014. Weil started his academic career at the

in 1965, and worked there until his retirement in 2008. Since then he teaches at

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and the

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. Weil also serves on several boards.

Selected publications

* Weil, Roman L. ''Handbook of modern accounting.'' Ed. Sidney Davidson. McGraw-Hill, 1977. * Davidson, Sidney, Clyde P. Stickney, and Roman L. Weil. ''Financial accounting: An introduction to concepts, methods, and uses.'' Dryden Press, 1979. * Davidson, Sidney, Clyde P. Stickney, and Roman L. Weil. ''Accounting: The language of business.'' (1987). Articles, a selection: * Fisher, Lawrence, and Roman L. Weil. "Coping with the risk of interest-rate fluctuations: returns to bondholders from naive and optimal strategies." ''Journal of Business'' (1971): 408-431. * Weil, Roman L. "Macaulay's duration: An appreciation." ''Journal of Business'' (1973): 589-592. * Ingersoll, Jonathan E., Jeffrey Skelton, and Roman L. Weil. "Duration forty years later." ''Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis'' 13.04 (1978): 627-650.

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