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The Behavior of Stock-Market Prices (The Journal of Business: The Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago January 1965).
by Fama, Eugene F
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About This Item
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Original paper of the landmark work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama's The Behavior of Stock Market Prices. Octavo, in the original wrappers which are bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, inner dentelles, raised bands, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Signed by Eugene F. Fama on the first page of his contribution: The Behavior of Stock Market Prices. In near fine condition. Rare. Eugene Fama is widely recognized as the "father of modern finance" particularity for his groundbreaking Ph.D. thesis on the efficient-market hypothesis. The thesis, which concluded that stock price movements are unpredictable and follow a random walk, was published in the January, 1965 issue of the Journal of Business, entitled "The Behavior of Stock Market Prices." Fama was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics.
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- Title
- The Behavior of Stock-Market Prices (The Journal of Business: The Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago January 1965).
- Author
- Fama, Eugene F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1965
- Keywords
- Eugene Fama First Edition
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