William N. Goetzmann

William N. Goetzmann (born February 4, 1956) is an American academic, television producer, museum director and author who 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.[1]

Goetzmann is a widely published expert on stocks, real estate, and alternative investments. He is best known for his research on investment funds, housing markets, the market for art and financial history.[2]

Background

was born in New Haven, CT, the son of Mewes Mueller and William H. Goetzmann. His father (1930–2010) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American West. He is married to Architect Mariko Masuaoka[3] and has one daughter Zoet.

Goetzmann studied at Yale College where he received a B.A. in Art History and Archaeology in 1978. He received his MBA from Yale School of Management in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Yale University in 1990.[4]

Prior to his academic career, Goetzmann worked as a writer and producer of PBS documentaries and served as the Director of the American Museum of Western Art in Denver, Colorado in 1984–85.

Career

Following the 2008 financial crisis, Goetzmann co-authored a 2009 research report with Andrew Ang and Stephen Schaefer for the Norwegian Ministry of Finance evaluating the sovereign wealth fund's use of active management. This research, provided ground-breaking recommendations on the use of factor investing for institutional portfolios.[5]

Books
  • Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible, Princeton University Press (2016)., ISBN 9780691143781
  • The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture, and the Great Crash of 1720 eds. William Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K.Geert Rouwenhorst and Timothy Young. Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780300162462
  • Editor, Translation of Germain Sicard’s The Mills of Toulouse, Yale Press, 2015.
  • The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations That Created Modern Capital Markets Goetzmann, William N; Rouwenhorst, K Geert, eds Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xii, 404. ISBN 9780195175714
  • The Equity Risk Premium: Essays and Explorations with Roger Ibbotson. 2006, Oxford and New York: OxfordUniversity Press, ISBN 9780195148145
  • Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, Eighth Edition, with Elton, Gruber, Brown, Goetzmann. John Wiley and Sons, 2010 and ff, ISBN 978-0470388327
  • The West of the Imagination, 1986, significantly changed second edition 2009, with W.H. Goetzmann, Oklahoma University Press[6]

References
  1. "International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management". About. Yale School of Management. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  2. "Insights – Research from Yale SOM". Yale Insights. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
  3. "PelliClarkeArchitects". People. PelliClarke. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  4. "William Goetzmann Profile Page". Yale SOM. YaleSOM. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  5. "Graduate School of Business Columbia" (PDF). People. Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
  6. Goetzmann, William N. (April 12, 2019). "William N. Goetzmann Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). William N. Goetzmann Curriculum Vitae.
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