Franco Modigliani
Franco Modigliani | |
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Modigliani in 2000 | |
| Born | 18 June 1918 Rome, Italy |
| Died | 25 September 2003 (aged 85) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | The New School (PhD) Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacob Marschak |
| Influences | J. M. Keynes, Jacob Marschak |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Financial economics |
| Doctoral students | Albert Ando Robert Shiller Mario Draghi Lucas Papademos |
| Notable ideas | Modigliani–Miller theorem Life-cycle hypothesis MPS model |
Franco Modigliani (US: /ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni/; Italian: [modiʎˈʎaːni]; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.