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Eugene Fama

Eugene Fama, University of Chicago finance professor, formulated the efficient market hypothesis and, with Kenneth French, the Fama-French three-factor model; he shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Hansen and Shiller.

Fischer Black

Fischer Black (1938–1995) was an American economist who co-created the Black–Scholes option-pricing formula, recognized in the 1997 Nobel citation, and later the Black–Derman–Toy and Black–Litterman models at Goldman Sachs.

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes is a Mexican economist, Professor of Finance at SKEMA Business School, who co-founded the law and finance research program linking countries' legal origins to investor protection and financial market development.

Francis A. Longstaff

Francis A. Longstaff is an American financial economist and Distinguished Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson, known for the Longstaff-Schwartz method for valuing American options and fixed-income research.

Francis Diebold

Francis X. Diebold is an American economist and econometrician at the University of Pennsylvania, known for the Diebold–Mariano test, realized volatility, and financial connectedness research.

Franklin Allen

Franklin Allen, born 1956, is a financial economist who spent 36 years at Wharton and has directed the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London since 2014.

G. William Schwert

G. William Schwert is an American financial economist who spent his 45-year career at the University of Rochester, studying stock market volatility, asset returns and inflation, and IPOs.

Gary Gorton

Gary B. Gorton is an American economist and Yale School of Management professor emeritus whose work with Andrew Metrick showed the 2008 crisis was a run on the repo market.

Geert Bekaert

Geert Bekaert is a financial economist and professor at Columbia Business School, formerly at Stanford, known for research on financial liberalization, emerging markets, and volatility.

Harrison Hong

Harrison Hong is an American financial economist, the John R. Eckel Jr. Professor at Columbia University, known for work on disagreement and market crashes and sin stocks.

Harry Markowitz

Harry Markowitz (1927–2023), American economist and 1990 Nobel laureate, founded modern portfolio theory with his 1952 paper "Portfolio Selection," introducing mean-variance analysis and the efficient frontier for portfolio choice.

Hyun Song Shin

Hyun Song Shin (신현송) is a Korean economist known for research on procyclical leverage and global liquidity, who became Governor of the Bank of Korea in April 2026.

Iftekhar Hasan

Iftekhar Hasan is a banking and financial institutions economist, University Professor and E. Gerald Corrigan Chair holder at Fordham's Gabelli School, with over 325 publications and Bank of Finland ties.

Ivo Welch

Ivo Welch is an American-based finance economist, Distinguished Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, known for work on IPOs, informational cascades, and equity premium prediction.

Jay R. Ritter

Jay R. Ritter, known as "Mr. IPO," is an American finance scholar who spent most of his career at the University of Florida studying initial public offerings.

Jeremy C. Stein

Jeremy C. Stein is an American financial economist who holds the Moise Y. Safra Professorship at Harvard and served as a Federal Reserve governor from 2012 to 2014.

Jerold B. Warner

Jerold B. Warner is a financial economist, Fred H. Gowen Emeritus Professor at the University of Rochester's Simon Business School, known for his event-study methodology papers.

John H. Cochrane

John H. Cochrane is an economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution, author of the textbook Asset Pricing and of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level (2023).

John J. McConnell

John J. McConnell is an American finance scholar at Purdue University known for research on how equity ownership and debt policy relate to corporate value.

Josef Lakonishok

Josef Lakonishok is a finance economist known for research on value investing, market anomalies, and institutional trading, and co-founder and CEO of LSV Asset Management, a Chicago quantitative value manager.

Josh Lerner

Josh Lerner, also known as Joshua Lerner, is an American economist at Harvard Business School who studies venture capital, private equity, and innovation policy, and has written about 8 books.

Kenneth R. French

Kenneth R. French is an American financial economist at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, best known for asset pricing models using size, value, profitability, and investment factors.

Kenneth Singleton

Kenneth J. Singleton is an American financial economist, the Adams Distinguished Professor of Management, Emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Business, known for asset pricing econometrics.

Kilian Huber

Kilian Huber is an economist trained at the London School of Economics who has been a professor at Chicago Booth since 2025, studying banking, firms, and the cost of capital.

Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian, Indian economist, 17th Chief Economic Adviser of India (2018-2021), ISB finance professor, IMF Executive Director for South Asia until 2025, and author of India@100.

Lasse Heje Pedersen

Lasse Heje Pedersen, also known as Lasse Pedersen, is a financial economist at Copenhagen Business School and AQR Capital Management, known for his work on liquidity risk and asset pricing.

Laura T. Starks

Laura T. Starks is an American finance scholar and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, known for research on institutional investors and sustainable finance.

Libo Yin

Libo Yin (尹力博) is a Chinese economist and professor at Beihang University working in asset pricing, energy finance, and climate finance, ranked among the top 5% of economists by RePEc.

Linh Pham

Linh Pham is an American-based economist specializing in energy and climate finance, known for research on green bonds and clean energy stocks, and is an associate professor at Lake Forest College in Illinois.

Lorenz Kueng

Lorenz Kueng (Lorenz Küng) is a Swiss-based economist at the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano who studies household finance and how households spend windfall payments.