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Eugene Fama

1939 - Today

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Eugene Francis "Gene" Fama (; born February 14, 1939) is an American economist, best known for his empirical work on portfolio theory, asset pricing, and the efficient-market hypothesis. He is currently 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eugene Fama has received more than 744,163 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Eugene Fama is the 131st most popular economist (down from 105th in 2019), the 1,797th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,459th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Economist.

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  • 58.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eugene Famas by language

Over the past year Eugene Fama has had the most page views in the with 66,284 views, followed by German (13,759), and Chinese (6,697). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (105.54%), Breton (88.24%), and Ido (87.61%)

Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Eugene Fama ranks 131 out of 414. Before him are Robert J. Shiller, Tjalling Koopmans, Alan Greenspan, George Stigler, John Harsanyi, and James Meade. After him are Ernest Mandel, Christopher A. Sims, Robert C. Merton, Angus Deaton, W. Arthur Lewis, and Clive Granger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Eugene Fama ranks 95. Before him are Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jānis Lūsis, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Daniel C. Tsui, Seamus Heaney, and Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria. After him are Nikola Pilić, Bernard Kouchner, Yaphet Kotto, Cynthia Lennon, Kathryn Joosten, and Michael Moorcock.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Eugene Fama ranks 1,797 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Smithson (1938), Clara Bow (1905), Ken Mattingly (1936), Larry Scott (1938), Elizabeth Montgomery (1933), and Temple Grandin (1947). After him are "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959), Jim Caviezel (1968), Bill Pullman (1953), Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954), Harry Stack Sullivan (1892), and Max Emmerich (1879).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Eugene Fama ranks 41. Before him are Merton Miller (1923), Edward C. Prescott (1940), Jeremy Rifkin (1945), Robert J. Shiller (1946), Alan Greenspan (1926), and George Stigler (1911). After him are Christopher A. Sims (1942), Robert C. Merton (1944), Robert Fogel (1926), James Heckman (1944), Vernon L. Smith (1927), and Jeffrey Sachs (1954).

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