About Eugene Fama
Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist and Nobel Laureate. He is best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is 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. The Research Papers in Economics project ranked him as the 9th-most influential economist of all time based on his academic contributions as of 2019. He is regarded as "the father of modern finance", as his works built the foundation of financial economics. In 2013, Fama was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. First, Fama proposed three types of efficiency: (i) strong-form; (ii) semi-strong form; and (iii) weak efficiency.
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