Franco Modigliani | |
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![]() Modigliani in 2000 | |
Born | Rome, Italy | 18 June 1918
Died | 25 September 2003 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 85)
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Academic career | |
Field | Financial economics |
Alma mater | The New School (PhD) Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea) |
Doctoral advisor | Jacob Marschak |
Doctoral students | Albert Ando Robert Shiller Mario Draghi Lucas Papademos |
Influences | J. M. Keynes, Jacob Marschak |
Contributions | Modigliani–Miller theorem Life-cycle hypothesis MPS model |
Franco Modigliani (18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003)[1] was an Italian-American economist and the recipient of the 1985 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He was a professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.