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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]
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."
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 ]
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)..
"Portfolio Selection", Journal of Finance, 7 (1), 1952, 77–91. Description: Development of the utility framework which shows an optimum can be reached using a portfolio of investments. In effect the first real proof that you should not put all your eggs in one basket. Importance: Precursor to most modern portfolio theory work in finance.
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.
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.
He was previously on the faculties of the Yale School of Management (Professor of Economics and Finance) [12] and Brown University's economics department (Professor of Financial Economics). [13] Welch completed his BA in computer science in 1985 at Columbia University, and both his MBA and PhD in finance at the University of Chicago. [14]