Franco Modigliani

Franco Modigliani
Modigliani in 2000
Born	(1918-06-18)18 June 1918 Rome, Italy
Died	25 September 2003(2003-09-25) (aged 85) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Citizenship	Italy United States
Academic background
Alma mater	The New School (PhD) Sapienza University of Rome (Laurea)
Doctoral advisor	Jacob Marschak
Influences	J. M. Keynes, Jacob Marschak
Academic work
Discipline	Financial economics
Doctoral students	Albert Ando Robert Shiller Mario Draghi Lucas Papademos
Notable ideas	Modigliani–Miller theorem Life-cycle hypothesis MPS model

Franco Modigliani (US: /ˌmoʊdiːlˈjɑːni/; Italian: [modiʎˈʎaːni]; 18 June 1918 – 25 September 2003)^[1] 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.