Franco Modigliani (1918-)

Premiu Nobel  1985

Nascut la Roma, emigreaza in Statele Unite la inceputul celui de-al doilea razboi mondial. Profesor la Universitatile din Columbia, Illinois, Carnegie I.T., Northwestern si Massachussets I.T.

Elev al lui Jacob Marschak, in teza sa de doctorat din 1944 propune ceea ce va fi nucleul sintezei neokeynesiane al macroeconomiei postbelice. In 1953 propune modelul ciclului vital pentru a explica functia agregata de consum. Contribuie la teoria banilor cu teorema Modigliani-Miller in1958. 

Lucrari ale lui Franco Modigliani

• "Liquidity Preference and the Theory of Interest and Money", 1944, Econometrica.
• "Utility Analysis and the Consumption Function: An interpretation of cross section data", in colaborare cu  R. Brumberg, 1954, en Kurihara, editor, Post Keynesian Economics.
• "The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment", 1958, in colaborare cu M.H. Miller, AER
• "New Developments on the Oligopoly Front", 1958, AER.
• "Corporate Income Taxes and the Cost of Capital: A correction", in colaborare cu M.H. Miller, 1963, AER.

  Apasati aici pentru a vedea cartile lui Franco Modigliani puse in vanzare

• "The Life Cycle Hypothesis of Saving", in colaborare cu A. Ando, 1963, AER.
• "The Monetary Mechanism and its Interaction with Real Phenomena", 1963, REStat.
• "The Pasinetti Paradox in Neoclassical and More General Models", in colaborare cu P. Samuelson, 1966, RES.
• "Monetary Policy and Consumption", 1971, in Consumer Spending and Monetary Policy.
• "The Monetarist Controversy or should we forsake stabilization policies", 1977, AER.
• "Toward an Understanding of the Real Effects and Costs of Inflation", in colaborare cu S.Fischer 1979, WWA.
• "Life Cycle, Individual Thrift and the Wealth of Nations", 1986, AER.
• "The Role of Intergeneration Transfers and Life-Cycle Saving in the Accumulation of Wealth", 1988, JEP.

Franco Modigliani pe Internet

• Autobiography de Modigliani.
• Nota de Presa la acordarea Premiului Nobel in 1985