Eugene F. Fama

University of Chicago - Finance

Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance

5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue

Chicago, IL 60637

United States

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Scholarly Papers (59)

1.

Market Efficiency, Long-Term Returns, and Behavioral Finance

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Apr 1997
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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A Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2014
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 181

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The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Sep 2003
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 174

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Value Versus Growth: The International Evidence

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 May 1997
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 105

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Separation of Ownership and Control

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998, and Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
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Citation 67

Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Working Paper No.
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Feb 1997
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 67

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Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

Posted: 28 Jul 1998
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Luck Versus Skill in the Cross Section of Mutual Fund Returns

Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2009-56 , Chicago Booth School of Business Research Paper, Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2010
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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The Equity Premium

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 20 Jul 2000
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 98

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The Equity Premium

Posted: 28 Nov 2003
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Size, Value, and Momentum in International Stock Returns

Fama-Miller Working Paper, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2011-85, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 11-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2011
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 262

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Agency Problems and Residual Claims

Michael C. Jensen, FOUNDATIONS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY, Harvard University Press, 1998; Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 26, June 1983
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Nov 1998
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
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Citation 615

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Disappearing Dividends: Changing Firm Characteristics or Lower Propensity to Pay?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Feb 2000
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 133

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Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Aug 1998
James L. Davis, Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 120

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Characteristics, Covariances, and Average Returns: 1929-1997

Posted: 13 Feb 2001
James L. Davis, Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Citation 245

Choosing Factors

Fama-Miller Working Paper , Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2668236, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2017
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Downloads 9,153 (1,062)
Citation 79

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Five-factor model

Choosing Factors

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Sep 2016
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Dissecting Anomalies

CRSP Working Paper No. 610
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Jun 2006
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 51

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Anomalies

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The Value Premium and the CAPM

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Mar 2005
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 45

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Dissecting Anomalies with a Five-Factor Model

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2015
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 415

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Citation 75

Forecasting Profitability and Earnings

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Nov 1997
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 75

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Forecasting Profitability and Earnings

Posted: 10 Mar 2000
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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The Value Premium

Fama-Miller Working Paper No. 20-01
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2020
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Downloads 8,755 (1,158)
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The Anatomy of Value and Growth Stock Returns

CRSP Working Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Sep 2005
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
Downloads 8,621 (1,192)
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The Anatomy of Value and Growth Stock Returns

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 63, No. 6, 2007
Posted: 14 Dec 2007
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Portfolio Management: Equity Strategies

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The Corporate Cost of Capital and the Return on Corporate Investment

CRSP Working Paper
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Aug 1998
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Testing Tradeoff and Pecking Order Predictions About Dividends and Debt

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Dec 1999
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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My Life in Finance

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2010
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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My Life in Finance

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 3, pp. 1-15, 2011
Posted: 10 Jan 2012
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance

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Disagreement, Tastes, and Asset Prices

CRSP Working Paper No. 552, Tuck Business School Working Paper No. 2004-03
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Nov 2005
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 115

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Profitability, Growth, and Average Returns

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Jul 2004
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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International Tests of a Five-Factor Asset Pricing Model

Fama-Miller Working Paper, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2622782
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2015
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Financing Decisions: Who Issues Stock?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Aug 2003
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 118

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Organizational Forms and Investment Decisions

A THEORY OF THE FIRM: GOVERNANCE, RESIDUAL CLAIMS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS, Harvard University Press, December 2000, (Book)
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Oct 2000
Eugene F. Fama and Michael C. Jensen
University of Chicago - Finance and Harvard Business School
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organizational forms, investment, proprietorships, partnerships, closed corporations, market value rule, residual claims, open corporations

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Does the Fed Control Interest Rates?

The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Forthcoming, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 12-23, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 05 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Citation 21

The Behavior of Interest Rates

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 May 2004
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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The Behavior of Interest Rates

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 359-379, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance

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Migration

CRSP Working Paper No. 614
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Aug 2006
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Size premium, value premium, average returns

Migration

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 48-58, 2007
Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Portfolio Management: Equity Strategies, Asset Allocation

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New Lists: Fundamentals and Survival Rates

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 07 May 2003
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Capital Structure Choices

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2011
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 11

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Opportunistic Financing

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Cross-Section Versus Time-Series Tests of Asset Pricing Models

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 Nov 2015
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
Downloads 3,729 (4,989)
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Determining the Number of Priced State Variables in the ICAPM

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June, 1998), 217-231, Fama-Miller Working Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 05 Mar 1997 Last Revised: 20 Jan 2017
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Determining the Number of Priced State Variables in the ICAPM

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Vol. 33, No. 2, 1998
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Nov 2015
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Determining the Number of Priced State Variables in the Icapm

Posted: 15 Jun 1998
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance

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Volatility Lessons

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 17-33, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 19 Oct 2018
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues

CRSP Working Paper No. 619
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 May 2007 Last Revised: 22 Oct 2007
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Citation 29

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Average Returns, B/M, and Share Issues

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Comparing Cross-Section and Time-Series Factor Models

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 18-08, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2019
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Long-Horizon Returns

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 17-17, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 May 2017 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2017
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Incremental Variables and the Investment Opportunity Set

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 14-35, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2015
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Incremental variables, Investment opportunity set, Portfolio returns, Variable attenuation

Incremental Variables and the Investment Opportunity Set

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Tuck School of Business Working Paper No. 2509517
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Apr 2015
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Incremental variables, Investment opportunity set, Portfolio returns, Variable attenuation

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The Profitability and Equity Financing of Style Groups: 1906-2006

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 15 Jul 2008
Kenneth R. French and Eugene F. Fama
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and University of Chicago - Finance
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Equity financing, pecking order, Q-theory

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Editorial: Clinical Papers and Their Role in the Development of Financial Economics

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Nov 2003
University of Chicago - Finance, Harvard Business School, Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, Harvard Business School, University of Rochester - Simon Business School, Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester and University of Rochester – Simon Business School
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Clinical Papers, case studies, perfect and imperfect markets

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Contract Costs, Stakeholder Capitalism, and ESG

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-46, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Oct 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Multifactor Portfolio Efficiency and Multifactor Asset Pricing

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Vol. 31, No. 4, 1996
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Nov 2015
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Multifactor Portfolio Efficiency and Multifactor Asset Pricing

J. OF FINANCIAL AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS, December 1996
Posted: 09 Apr 1997 Last Revised: 10 May 2017
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance

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House Prices and Rents

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-48, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Wealth Taxes

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Interest Rates and Inflation Revisited

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 18-10, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 18 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2018
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Was There Ever a Lending Channel?

Chicago Booth Research Paper, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2015
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Stimulus and the Permanent Income Hypothesis

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 21-08, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Property Taxes

Fama-Miller Working Paper, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 19 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Taxes

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-32, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Taxes: A Simple Scheme

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 14 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Government and Nonprofits

Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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A Look Back at Modern Finance: Accomplishments and Limitations

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 10-16, 2016
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 01 Mar 2023
Eugene F. Fama and Joel M. Stern
University of Chicago - Finance and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Business Income Taxes

Fama-Miller Working Paper, Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 20-33
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 30 Sep 2020
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance
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Regional Prosperity and Its Spillovers

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 23-16, Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 Sep 2023
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
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Size and Book to Market Factors in Earnings and Returns

Posted: 10 May 2000
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies

J. OF FINANCE, Vol. 51 No. 1, March 1996
Posted: 28 Jun 1998
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Investment Decisions, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

Posted: 27 Jan 1997
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth R. French
University of Chicago - Finance and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business

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Discounting Under Uncertainty

J. OF BUSINESS, Vol. 69 No. 4, October 1996
Posted: 18 Dec 1996
Eugene F. Fama
University of Chicago - Finance

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