Eugene Fama

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Eugene Fama
Fama in Stockholm, December 2013
Born	(1939-02-14) February 14, 1939 (age 85) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	Tufts University University of Chicago
Academic career
Field	Financial economics, Organizational economics, Macroeconomics
Institution	University of Chicago
School or tradition	Chicago School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	Merton Miller Harry V. Roberts
Doctoral students	Cliff Asness, Myron Scholes, Mark Carhart
Contributions	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)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Academic background
Thesis	The Distribution of the Daily Differences of the Logarithms of Stock Prices (1964)

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.^[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]