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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] He has spent the entirety of his teaching career at the University of Chicago.
Her dissertation research examined the effects of disability insurance, and was supervised by David Autor, Amy Finkelstein, and Michael Greenstone. [9] After completing her PhD, Deshpande joined the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, followed by the University of Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Economics. [10]
Henry Calvert Simons (1899–1946) did his graduate work at the University of Chicago but did not submit his final dissertation to receive a degree. [34] In fact, he was initially influenced by Frank Knight while he was an assistant professor at the University of Iowa from 1925 to 1927, and in summer 1927 Simons decided to join the Department ...
Chicago (IL), University of Chicago Press, 1964. Description: Extensive study about the theoretical inclusion and empirical importance of education in production. Importance: Classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments.
The Chicago School: How the University of Chicago Assembled the Thinkers Who Revolutionized Economics and Business (2007). Plath, Paul John. "The fox and the hedgehog: Liberal education at the University of Chicago" (PhD dissertation,. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1989. 9010987)..
Jeremy Siegel, Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, creator of the Siegel's paradox and CNBC commentator (former faculty member) Richard Thaler , Nobel Prize-winning behavioral economist, considered "father of behavioral finance", cited as significant influence on bridging psychology and economics in ...
From 1957–58, Grunfeld was an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago (UChicago). [3] His 1958 doctoral thesis at UChicago is The Determinants of Corporate Investment; as of 2010, its appendix contained "one of the most widely used data sets in all of econometrics."
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.