William N. Goetzmann.

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William N. Goetzmann is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Asset Pricing and the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies at the Yale School of Management. He has taught at the Yale School of Management for five years and taught previously at Columbia Business School for four years. He holds a B.A., an M.B.A., and a Ph.D. from Yale.

Goetzmann's research topics include the behavior of individual investors, global investing, the long-term historical performance of markets, hedge funds, mutual funds, real estate, and art as an investment. His articles have appeared in virtually all of the leading academic and practitioner-oriented finance journals and in the popular press. Goetzmann currently serves on the board of the American Finance Association. He has also served as editor of the leading academic real estate journal, Real Estate Economics.

Goetzmann has a background in arts and media management. As a documentary filmmaker, he has written and...