Professor eugene fama biography
Eugene fama.
Professor eugene fama biography
Eugene Fama
American economist and Nobel laureate in Economics
Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; 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.[1][2] 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[update].[3] He is regarded as "the father of modern finance", as his works built the foundation of financial economics and have been cited widely.[4]
Early life and education
Fama was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Angelina (née Sarraceno) and Francis Fam