Professor Fama wins first Deutsche Bank Prize

Eugene F. Fama, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, has won the inaugural Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, according to an announcement April 28. The award honors an internationally renowned researcher who has excelled through influential contributions to research in the fields of finance and macroeconomics, and whose work has led to practice and policy-relevant results.

The international award was established by the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Fama teaches Theory of Financial Decisions I, a PhD-level course that is meant to be accessible to the motivated Chicago GSB MBA student. The course covers models for portfolio decisions by investors and the pricing of securities in capital markets.

 

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