William N. Goetzmann
Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance & Faculty Director of Asset Management Curriculum, M.B.A. for Executives Program
William N. Goetzmann is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Faculty Director of the International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. He is an expert on a diverse range of investments. His past work includes studies of stock market predictability, hedge funds and survival biases in performance measurement. His current research focuses on alternative investing, factor investing, behavioral finance and the art market.
Professor Goetzmann has written and co-authored a number of books, including Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis (Wiley, 2014), The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Oxford, 2005), The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture and the Crash of 1720 (Yale, 2013) and most recently, Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible (Princeton, 2016). He teaches portfolio management, alternative investments, real estate and financial history at the Yale School of Management.
Education
- PhD, Yale University, 1990
- MBA, Yale School of Management, 1986
- BA, Yale College, 1978
Articles
Real and Private-Value Assets
Art as Collateral
The Financial Analysts Journal and Investment Management
The Banque Royale Ceiling and the Imagery of Finance in the Age of Absolutism
Art and gender: market bias or selection bias?
Books
The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Great Crash of 1720
Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis
Working Papers
Home Equity Insurance: A Pilot Project
Modeling and Measuring Russian Corporate Governance: The Case of Russion Preferred and Common Shares
Estimating Indices in the Presence of Seller Reservation Prices
Investor Sentiment in Japanese and U.S. Daily Mutual Fund Flows
Achievements
- Best Paper Award, Journal of the European Financial Management Association, 2018
- James R. Vertin Award, CFA Institute Research Foundation “for a body of research notable for its relevance and enduring value to investment professionals”, 2018
- Jack Treynor Prize, Q-Group for superior academic working papers with potential applications in the fields of investment management and financial markets, 2018
- President, Western Finance Association, 2010
- Past President, European Finance Association, 2006