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American Economic Review Vol. 104 No. 6 2014

Two Pillars of Asset Pricing

Eugene F. Fama

Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Booth School, University of Chicago, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 (e-mail: )

Abstract

The Nobel Foundation asks that the Nobel lecture cover the work for which the Prize is awarded. The announcement of this year's Prize cites empirical work in asset pricing. I interpret this to include work on efficient capital markets and work on developing and testing asset pricing models—the two pillars, or perhaps more descriptive, the Siamese twins of asset pricing. I start with efficient markets and then move on to asset pricing models.

DOI
10.1257/aer.104.6.1467
Volume
104
Issue
6
Pages
1467-1485
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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