Franco Modigliani
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Franco Modigliani was an Italian Economist and Nobel Prize Laureate who was born in Rome on June 18, 1918. He was a passionate economist who spent most of his life in America teaching and writing about economics. He was an active antifascist who participated in various resistance movements with the support of Littoriali. He was heavily influenced by John Maynard Keynes and developed many important economic theories, most notably the life-cycle hypothesis. For this, he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in 1985. He also inspired many economics aspirants with his lectures and discourses.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Economist
Birth Day June 18, 1918
Birth Place Rome, Italian
Age 102 YEARS OLD
Died On September 25, 2003(2003-09-25) (aged 85)\nCambridge, Massachusetts
Birth Sign Cancer
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign New School MIT
Field Financial economics
School or tradition Neo-Keynesian economics Chicago School of economics Carnegie School
Alma mater New School
Doctoral advisor Jacob Marschak Abba Lerner
Doctoral students Albert Ando Robert Shiller Mario Draghi Lucas Papademos
Influences J. M. Keynes, Jacob Marschak
Contributions Modigliani–Miller theorem Life-cycle hypothesis MPS model

💰 Net worth

Franco Modigliani, a renowned Italian economist, is predicted to have a net worth ranging from $100K to $1M in the year 2024. Modigliani is highly recognized for his contributions to the field of economics, particularly in the areas of public finance, monetary policy, and the theory of consumption. His pioneering work on the life-cycle hypothesis and the Modigliani-Miller theorem revolutionized the understanding of household behavior and corporate finance, respectively. Throughout his illustrious career, Modigliani received numerous accolades, including the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1985.

Biography/Timeline

1918

Modigliani was born on 18 June 1918, in Rome, Italy, to the Jewish Italian family of a pediatrician father and a voluntary social worker mother.

1936

He entered college at the age of seventeen, enrolling in the faculty of Law at the University of Rome. A few years before, in 1936, his submission to a nation-wide contest in Economics, sponsored by the official student organization of the state, had won first prize and Modigliani received an award from the hand of Benito Mussolini. Among his early works in fascist Italy was an article about the organization and management of production in a socialist economy, written in Italian and arguing the case for socialism along lines laid out by earlier market socialists like Abba Lerner and Oskar Lange.

1939

In 1939, while they were in Paris, after having left Italy, Modigliani married Serena Calabi. They had two children, Andre and Sergio Modigliani. Their grandchildren were Leah, Julia, David, and Amelia, and their great-grandchildren Micaela, Sophia, Serena, and Chiara. When Franco Modigliani took the job at MIT, the couple bought a home on North Road overlooking Vineyard Sound, near Chilmark, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

1942

From 1942 to 1944, Modigliani taught at Columbia University and Bard College as an instructor in Economics and Statistics. In 1946, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1948, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty. From 1952 to 1962, he was a member of the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.

1950

Modigliani, from the 1950s, is the originator of the life-cycle hypothesis, which attempts to explain the level of saving in the economy. In the hypothesis it is proposed that consumers aim for a stable level of consumption throughout their lifetime (for Example by saving during their working years and then spending during their retirement).

1954

The Rational Expectations Hypothesis is considered by economists to originate in the later-considered "seminal" paper written by Modigliani and Emile Grunberg in 1954.

1958

When he was a member of the Carnegie Mellon University faculty, he formulated in 1958, along with Merton Miller, the Modigliani–Miller theorem for corporate Finance. The theorem posits that, under certain assumptions, the value of a firm is not affected by whether it is financed by equity (selling shares) or by debt (borrowing money), meaning that the debt-to-equity ratio is unimportant for private firms.

1960

Late in his life, Modigliani became a trustee of the Economists for Peace and Security organization, formerly "Economists Allied for Arms Reduction" and was considered an "influential adviser": in the late 1960s, on a contract with the Federal Reserve, he designed the "MIT-Pennsylvania-Social Science Research Council" model, a tool that "guided monetary policy in Washington for many decades."

1962

In 1962, he joined the faculty of MIT, as an Institute Professor.

1975

In 1975, Modigliani, in a paper whose co-author was his former student Lucas Papademos, introduced the concept of the "NIRU", the non-inflationary rate of unemployment, ostensibly an improvement over the "natural rate of unemployment" concept. The terms refer to a level of unemployment below which inflation rises.

1985

In 1985, Modigliani received MIT's James R. Killian Faculty Achievement Award. In 1997, he received an honoris causa degree in Management Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II in 1997.

1997

In 1997, Modigliani and his granddaughter, Leah Modigliani, developed what is now called the "Modigliani Risk-Adjusted Performance," a measure of the risk-adjusted returns of an investment portfolio that was derived from the Sharpe ratio, adjusted for the risk of the portfolio relative to that of a benchmark, e.g. the "market."

2003

Modigliani died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2003, while still working at the MIT, and teaching until the last months of his life. Serena Modigliani-Calabi, active to the end in progressive politics, most notably with the League of Women Voters, and an outspoken believer in participatory democracy, died in 2008.

2019

The same year, they all emigrated to the United States and he enrolled at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His doctoral thesis, an elaboration and extension of John Hicks’s IS–LM model, was written under the supervision of Jacob Marschak and Abba Lerner, in 1944, and is considered "ground breaking."

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