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Travels on a Flying Carpet

In: The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling

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My wife, Sandra, got the travel bug early. She was part of a very strong class in honors economics at the University of California, Berkeley — others included famous economists Robert Hall (Stanford) and Thomas Sargent (economics Nobel Prize winner, 2011 at NYU). She did research with star Professor Roy Radner, one of those possibly better than many economics Nobel Prize winners. Radner was friendly with Andreas Papandreau and became involved with the Center for Planning and Economic Research in Athens. Sandra went there on a fellowship after her undergrad for the academic year 1964–1965. There she met University of Wisconsin professor Arthur Goldberger which led to her going to Madison for an MA in Economics. She had two summers traveling around Europe and at Christmas went to Turkey and Israel with an overnight transit in Cyprus. It was her year of three divided cities: Berlin, Jerusalem and Nicosia. Indeed, she liked to travel!…

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  • William T Ziemba, 2017. "Travels on a Flying Carpet," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: The Adventures of a Modern Renaissance Academic in Investing and Gambling, chapter 5, pages 29-60, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789813148529_0005
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    Financial History; Risk Management; Investment Strategies; Mean Reversion; Risk Arbitrage; Management of Assets;
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    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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