Eugene Fama
Eugene Fama | |
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Fama in Stockholm, December 2013 | |
| Born | February 14, 1939 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Tufts University (BA) University of Chicago (MBA, PhD) |
| Thesis | The Distribution of the Daily Differences of the Logarithms of Stock Prices (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Merton Miller Harry V. Roberts |
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| Discipline | Financial economics, Organizational economics, Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Chicago School of Economics |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
| Doctoral students | Cliff Asness, Myron Scholes, Mark Carhart |
| Notable ideas | 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) |
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Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (/ˈfɑːmə/; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis.
He is currently 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. The Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the 9th-most influential economist of all time based on his academic contributions, as of April 2019. He is regarded as "the father of modern finance", as his works built the foundation of financial economics and have been cited widely.