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Franco Modigliani
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Italian-American economist (1918–2003)
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Franco Modigliani (1918–2003) was an Italian and American economist and university teacher. He held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Carnegie Mellon University. Modigliani received the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the Econometric Society, and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
Born in 1918, Modigliani died in Cambridge in 2003. He was educated at The New School, with Jacob Marschak and Abba P. Lerner serving as his doctoral advisors. His doctoral students included Albert Ando, Robert J. Shiller, Mario Draghi, and Loukas Papademos. He spoke Italian and English.
Modigliani’s field of work was economics. His published works include *Collected Papers of Franco Modigliani* and *The role of anticipations and plans in economic behavior and their use in economic analysis and forecasting*. He also contributed to *Foundations of Financial Markets and Institutions*.
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Nobel Prize
- The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel1985
“for his pioneering analyses of saving and of financial markets”
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Franco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- president
- Employer
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Abba P. Lerner
- Student of
- Jacob Marschak
- Field of work
- economics
- Image
- Franco Modigliani.jpg
- Work location
- Pittsburgh
- Residence
- United States
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- Commons category
- Franco Modigliani
- date of birth
- 1918-06-18
- date of death
- 2003-09-25
- Erdős number
- 4
- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- name in native language
- Franco Modigliani
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- economics
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Encyclopedic overview
Franco Modigliani ( US: /ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni/; Italian: [modiʎˈʎaːni]; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003) 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.
Early life and education
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