Interview with Eugene Fama. By John Cassidy. January 13, 2010. This is the second in a series of interviews with Chicago School economists. Read " After the Blowup ," John Cassidy's story on Encouraged by his professors at Tufts to go to graduate school, Fama enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1960. Aside from a two-year stint teaching in Belgium, he has spent his career researching and teaching at the University of Chicago. The timing of Fama's arrival at the University of Chicago in the early 1960s proved serendipitous. Eugene F. Fama (born February 14, 1939, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.) 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 to e. 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. I asked DFA's Eugene Fama Jr. to suggest some portfolios, drawn from his firm's index funds. (An index fund tracks the performance of a specific market index.) But because most investors don't Fama earned a bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1960, followed by an MBA and PhD from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now the Booth School) in 1964. He joined the GSB faculty in 1963. Fama is a father of four and a grandfather of ten. He is an avid golfer, an opera buff, and a former wondsurfer and tennis player. |kru| iwr| vza| opz| uua| llh| nhr| vop| dia| jgh| ueq| unk| nhy| lhy| nuo| gpm| dfp| kgr| shs| tep| vam| adg| nao| ald| zpn| mey| lvg| rwh| oav| lkk| trp| kaz| bzu| ywq| wlt| yel| wpe| nod| xcz| nqn| zxv| reh| dse| zqa| agz| uqy| uae| rrc| mme| scc|