Merton Miller
Merton Miller
Merton Howard Millerwas an American economist, and the co-author of the Modigliani–Miller theorem, which proposed the irrelevance of debt-equity structure. He shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1990, along with Harry Markowitz and William F. Sharpe. Miller spent most of his academic career at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth16 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
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When I started worrying about stocks, it was the late 1930s and early 1940s and it didn't seem like a good way to make money then, either.
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Another is, if you take money out of your left pocket and put it in your right pocket, you're no richer.
I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.
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Franco and I were both working on the problem, but from somewhat different perspectives - he from macroeconomics and me from corporate finance.
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My main interest, however, was in economics, not law.
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Of course. I favor passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.
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I can't speak for them, of course, but I believe that most economists would accept the view that, while you sometimes can make a score by sheer luck, you can't do it constantly, unless you're willing to put the resources in.
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What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions.
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For me, as an economist, it was frustrating to have no sense of a theory of corporate finance to tie all this material together.
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My research interests since then have shifted strongly towards the economic and regulatory problems of the financial services industry, and especially of the securities and options exchanges.
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So everybody has some information. The function of the markets is to aggregate that information, evaluate it, and get it incorporated into prices.
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Diversification is your buddy.
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You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.
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Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.