Talk:Eugene Fama

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• Is it illegal to put the hyperlinks in it so one can get to a publication? even though it is available on the internet though other means? Paul.Paquette 04:20, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• I'm not crazy about the JSTOR hyperlinks, because that is not a free service; only people at .edu addresses can access it. The links to articles on his home page are certainly appropriate and helpful, in my opinion. Afelton 14:35, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• I live on campus, but I am using a personal computer, are you unable to get the download for the PDF for the Paper he wrote? Paul.Paquette 04:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

• I can download Theory of Finace and Foundation of Finance, but not "Mandelbrot and the stable Paretian Hypothesis" or any others where the external link is to jstor.org. Afelton 19:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

• I will try to find other sources out there, feel free to add to the ones already available, people that do have access to JSTOR website can still utilize the links that are available. Paul.Paquette 04:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

POV, and Butt-kissing? Do we need this: "This willingness to let the data speak for itself is the ultimate defining characteristic of Eugene Fama, much more so than any one theory or set of results." And he loves puppy dogs, too? --Christofurio 23:56, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

• Large portions of Eugene_Fama#Fama_and_French_Three_Factor_Model appear to be lifted directly from the first 3 paragraphs of http://www.moneychimp.com/articles/risk/multifactor.htm with no citation. This section probably needs a rewrite without the plagiarism. Discordant (talk) 03:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] merge from en.wikibooks

I have merged b:Eugene Fama into Eugene_Fama#Bibliography; the edit history from en.wikibooks is here to comply with the GFDL. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb 00:38, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split the article?

It seems like it might be better to start a separate article about the Fama-French three factor model instead of lumping it into a biographical article about Eugene Fama. Also, this section seems to require major rewrites both to address the above copyright concerns and because the model could be described more clearly and precisely in probably fewer words. For instance, we could define exactly how the risk factors are constructed. With the amount of interest in the model both from industry and academia, it seems that this would be a nice addition to Wikipedia. Any thoughts? Wik-e-wik (talk) 08:08, 3 May 2008 (UTC)