Eugene Fama
American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics
Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (/ˈfɑːmə/; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist. He is best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis.
Eugene Fama | |
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 Fama in Stockholm, December 2013 | |
| Born | February 14, 1939 |
| Nationality | American |
| Institution | University of Chicago |
| Field | Financial economics, Organizational economics, Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Chicago School of Economics |
| Alma mater | Tufts University University of Chicago |
| Doctoral advisor | Merton Miller Harry V. Roberts |
| Doctoral students | Cliff Asness, Myron Scholes, Mark Carhart |
| Contributions | Fama–French three-factor model Efficient-market hypothesis |
| Awards | 2005 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2008 Morgan Stanley-American Finance Association Award Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (2013) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
He is Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
In 2013, he shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen.[1][2][3]
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- ↑ The Prize in Economic Sciences 2013 Archived 2018-06-22 at the Wayback Machine, nobelprize.org, retrieved 14 October 2013
- ↑ 3 US Economists Win Nobel for Work on Asset Prices, abc news, October 14, 2013
- ↑ "Economist Rankings at IDEAS – Top 10% Authors, as of April 2019". Research Papers in Economics. April 2019. Retrieved May 22, 2019.