Three American professors Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J. Shiller were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science on Monday for showing that stock prices, while unpredictable in the short term, tend to follow established rules in the long term.</p>
<p>Their work, done individually rather than in cooperation, laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices, according to a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the annual prize.</p>
<p>Mr. Fama and Mr. Hansen are professors at the University of Chicago; Mr. Shiller is a professor at Yale University.
<p>I’ve known of Fama’s work since was at Booth (then GSB) in the early 1980s, although I never took his course, which was heavy duty and very math centric. I am not surprised he won, since he pioneered modern financial market theory, including efficient market concepts.</p>