William N. Goetzmann

 is the Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director, International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management. His research topics include global investing, forecasting stock markets, selecting mutual fund managers, housing as investment, and the risk and return of art. Goetzmann is also the co-author and co-editor of books on finance, financial history, and cultural history.

Papers
Geotzmann has written many studies and earned numerous awards. .

Books

 * William N. Goetzmann, ed. and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, ed., The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created the Modern Financial Markets (Oxford, 2005)
 * William N. Goetzmann and Roger Ibbotson, The Equity Risk Premium: Essays and Explorations with Roger Ibbotson (Oxford, 2006)
 * Edwin J. Elton, Martin J. Gruber, Stephen J. Brown, and William N. Goetzmann, Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis (John Wiley and Sons, 2006 and following)
 * William N. Goetzmann and William W.H. Goetzmann, The West of the Imagination (Oklahoma, 1986 & 2009).
 * William N. Goetzmann, ed., Catherine Labio, ed., K. Geert Rouwenhorst, ed., and Timothy G. Young, ed., The Great Mirror of Folly, Finance, Culture, and the Crash of 1720 (Yale University Press).