Financial economics examines how financial markets price assets and how investors evaluate risk and return. Its frameworks now underpin portfolio construction, asset pricing and many of the risk management practices used across global capital markets.
Check out the Nobel laureates in financial economics featured on this page to find out more about their groundbreaking ideas and personal stories. Honored by UBS, these trailblazers contributed foundational theories spanning portfolio construction, asset pricing and the behavioral forces that shape financial markets.
