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Links to other sites Video Eugene Fama is interviewed by Richard Roll for the American Finance Association’s “Masters of Finance” series. Recorded on 15 August 2008. Articles Fama, E.F. (2011), “My life in finance”, Annual Review of Financial Economics 3, 1-15. Fama, E.F. (1970), “Efficient capital markets: a review of theory and empirical work”,…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Lecture to the memory of Alfred Nobel, December 12, 1969 The Use of Models: Experience and Prospects 1. Essence of models In this lecture I propose to discuss the experience we have had with the method of model building as a contribution to economic science and the prospects for its further application. First of all…

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The Nobel Prize laureates are required “to give a lecture on a subject connected with the work for which the prize has been awarded according to the Nobel Foundation statutes. The lecture should be given before, or no later than six months after, the Nobel Prize award ceremony, which takes place in Stockholm or, in…

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Biographical

I was born April 14, 1921, in Oakland California, spent most of my boyhood in California, with three years in the east and two in the Panama Canal Zone, my father being a naval officer. I attended the University of California, Berkeley (with two years out in Chile), graduating in economics in 1944. After a…

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