Online Economic Seminars
The links below are to notes and materials for seminars taught by
Peter Fortune
Ph.D. Harvard University
(Economics)
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Peter Fortune received his B.A. in economics from Indiana
University (1967) and his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University (1972). He
was a member of the economics faculties at Harvard (1973-77) and at Tufts
University (1977-1995). At Tufts he served as chairman of the economics
department. From 1995 until his retirement in 2005 he served as Senior
Economist and Advisor to the Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank
of
His research interests are in financial economics.. He has published in the areas of capital markets and financial institutions, state and local government finance, the mutual fund industry, derivatives securities, and implications of margin requirements for stability of the stock market.