Mission

The center's mission is to maintain and advance the legacy of Fama and Miller by providing the institutional structure and resources required to support academic researchers and push forward the boundaries of research in finance.

Activities

The activities of the center can be divided into five broad areas:

  1. Research Infrastructure - The center provides the internal infrastructure and organization to support finance research at Chicago Booth. A centralized location to manage access to financial data and provide simple data assistance was created and launched in June 2012.
  2. Funding and Support for Large-Scale Projects - Some large-scale projects require funding and institutional support beyond what individual faculty can provide. For example, the center supports the experimental evaluation of decision making, the interaction of traders in markets, large-scale survey work, or the use of large databases with feeds from multiple markets at high frequencies.
  3. Scholars - The center provides a home for visiting scholars and funds conferences and other public research activities.
  4. PhD Students - The center provides support to the PhD Program and its students, both financially and intellectually.
  5. Outreach and Communications - The Fama-Miller Center furthers the marketing and dissemination of research to the academic, industry, student, and media communities with efforts including the Fama-Miller Working Paper Series for academic writing.

Fama Miller Center People


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Merton Miller

In 1990, Miller, along with two other US economists shared the Nobel Prize "for their pioneering work in the theory of financial economics."

Merton Miller
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Research Fellows

The Fama-Miller Center offers promising scholars who earned their doctorate in finance or related fields to do research at Chicago Booth for one or two years.


Research Fellows

Co-Directors

Executive Board


Contact Us

Director

John Heaton
Joseph L. Gidwitz Professor of Finance
John.Heaton@chicagobooth.edu 

Director of Research Systems and Development

Marisa Milazzo
Marisa Milazzo
773.702.0338

Sr. Associate Director of Operations

Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams
773.702.5530