Tätig als Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management, Yale School of Management, USA (2010-); Direktor am International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; tätig an der Columbia Univ., New York, NY; tätig an der School of Management, Yale Univ., New Haven, Conn. (1994-1997 Associate Professor of Finance) und am NBER, Cambridge, Mass. Prof. of financial & real estate, School of Management (1998); Education: B.A. Yale College, 1978 MBA Yale School of Management, 1986 Ph.D. Operations Research (Finance) Yale University 1990; Sohn von William H. Goetzmann, mit ihm Verfasser des Werks "West of the imagination"