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He is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. [1] He served as chief economist for the Council of Economic Advisers in the Trump Administration from September 6, 2018 to August 2019. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
Eugene Fama, “Man Who Launched Modern Finance” - Nobel Prize–winning financial economist and originator of the efficient-market hypothesis and co-originator of Fama & French Three Factors Model (also alumnus, M.B.A. and Ph.D.) Robert Fogel, Nobel Prize–winning economist, known for work in economic history and population economics (deceased)
Fama's MBA and PhD came from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago in economics and finance. His doctoral supervisors were Nobel prize winner Merton Miller and Harry V. Roberts , but Benoit Mandelbrot was also an important influence. [ 7 ]
As of October 2023, the department of economics with the most affiliated laureates in economic sciences is the University of Chicago, [6] [7] with 16 affiliated laureates. As of 2023, the institutions with the most PhD (or equivalent) graduates who went on to receive the prize are Harvard University and MIT (13 each), followed by the University ...
While still a student, he was invited to become a member of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, which was in Chicago at the time. He completed his A.M. in Economics from the university in 1950. [3] Markowitz chose to apply mathematics to the analysis of the stock market as the topic for his dissertation.
Richard H. Thaler (/ ˈ θ eɪ l ər /; [1] born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought is one of several PhD-granting committees at the University of Chicago. It was started in 1941 by economic historian John Ulric Nef along with economist Frank Knight , anthropologist Robert Redfield , and University President Robert Maynard Hutchins .
A specialist in financial economics and macroeconomics, he has been a professor of finance and economics by courtesy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2016. [1] From 1994 to 2015, he served as the AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. [1]