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- In the 1960s, Eugene Fama demonstrated that stock price movements are impossible to predict in the short-term and that new information affects prices almost immediately, which means that the market is efficient. The impact of Fama's results has extended beyond the field of research.
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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.
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Undergraduate: Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts; B.A., 1960. Graduate: Graduate School of Business (now the Booth School), University of Chicago; 1960–63. MBA, 1963; Ph.D., 1964, Dissertation: The Behavior of Stock Market Prices.
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2013 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989. Fellow of the American Finance Association, January 2001. First elected fellow. Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, 2005, first recipient. Morgan Stanley American Finance Association Award for Excellence in F...
1963–1965 Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. 1966–1968 Associate Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. 1968–1973 Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business. 1973–1984 Theodore O. Yntema Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Grad...
American Economic Association, American Finance Association. Associate Editor, Journal of Finance (1971–73, 1977–80). Advisory Editor, Journal of Financial Economics (1974– ). Associate Editor, American Economic Review (1975–77). Associate Editor, Journal of Monetary Economics (1984–96) This autobiography/biography was writtenat the time of the awa...
The Father of Modern Empirical Finance. In a career that has spanned nearly 60 years, Eugene F. Fama has published more than 100 articles in the world’s top economics journals, written two landmark books, and received dozens of awards for his revolutionary work—including the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
Eugene F. Fama (born February 14, 1939, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American economist who, with Lars P. Hansen and Robert J. Shiller, was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics for his contributions to the development of the efficient-market hypothesis and the empirical analysis of asset prices. Fama showed that it is very difficult ...
Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (/ ˈ f ɑː m ə /; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis.
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.
Eugene Fama. 1939-. E ugene Fama shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Robert Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen. The three received the prize for “for their empirical analysis of stock prices.”. Fama has played a key role in the development of modern finance, with major contributions to a broad range of topics within the field ...
