William Sharpe is among the 1990 economic sciences laureates for developing the theory of financial markets. His capital asset pricing model connects an investment’s expected return to its exposure to market-wide risk and became a standard tool for portfolio analysis.
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William Sharpe
Nobel Prize history for William Sharpe based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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