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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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Fama, E.F. (2011), “My life in finance”, Annual Review of...
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Aug 30, 2024 · Fama is arguably the world’s most famous and influential finance professor, thanks to his revolutionary efficient market hypothesis — that stock market prices at any time incorporate all...
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.
Fama is really most famous for putting all the facts together, personally collecting a lot of finch beaks, and figuring out how the curiosities collected by others fit in to the framework, in often challenging and unexpected ways.
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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...
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 ...
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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.
