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Fama was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Angelina (née Sarraceno) and Francis Fama. All of his grandparents were immigrants from Italy. Fama is a Malden Catholic High School Athletic Hall of Fame honoree.
Biographical. My grandparents on both sides immigrated to the United States from Sicily in the early 1900s, so I am a third generation Italian-American.
Eugene F. Fama, 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences, is widely recognized as the "father of modern finance." His research is well known in both the academic and investment communities. He is strongly identified with research on markets, particularly the efficient markets hypothesis. He focuses much of his research on the relation between ...
Eugene F. Fama, MBA '64, PhD '64. Fama, widely recognized as the "father of modern empirical finance," is strongly identified with research on markets, particularly with regard to the efficient market hypothesis. He received the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics for his work.
The son of a truck driver who worked in the shipyards during World War II, Fama attended Malden Catholic High School, a private all-boys school, where he became a star athlete. Later, he was inducted into his high school’s athletic hall of fame.
Apr 2, 2014 · The Swedes had given the award to one guy, Eugene Fama, who is best known for originating something called the efficient market hypothesis, another guy, Robert Shiller, who once called the...
Eugene F. Fama. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2013. Born: 14 February 1939, Boston, MA, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for their empirical analysis of asset prices”. Prize share: 1/3.
