What is William F. Sharpe?
{{Infobox scientist |name = William F. Sharpe |image = William sharpe 2007.jpg |image_size = 180px |caption = Sharpe in 2007 |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1934|6|16|mf=y}} |birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], [[United States|U.S.]] |nationality = [[United States]] |field = [[Economics]] |work_institution = William F. Sharpe Associates <br />[[Stanford University]] <br />[[University of California at Irvine|UC Irvine]] <br />[[University of Washington]] 1961–68<br />[[RAND Corporation]] |alma_mater = [[University of California at Los Angeles|UCLA]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]]) |doctoral_advisor = [[Armen Alchian]]<br />[[Harry Markowitz]] (unofficial) |doctoral_students = [[Howard Sosin]] |known_for = [[Capital asset pricing model]]<br />[[Sharpe ratio]] |prizes = [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] (1990) |religion = |footnotes = }} {{nobelprize|Economics}}'''William Forsyth Sharpe''' (born June 16, 1934) is an American economist. He a the professor at [[Stanford University]]'s Graduate School of Business. He won the 1990 [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=William F. Sharpe (1934– ) |url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Sharpe.html |encyclopedia=[[The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics]] |edition=2nd |series=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |publisher=[[Liberty Fund]] |year=2008 }}</ref> Sharpe was known for his works in [[capital asset pricing model]] (CAPM). ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.wsharpe.com/ Personal web site of Dr. Sharpe] * [https://ideas.repec.org/e/psh27.html IDEAS/RePEc] {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharpe, William Forsyth}} [[Category:1934 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American economists]] [[Category:Scientists from Boston]] {{US-bio-stub}} {{Nobel Prize in economics}}