G. William Schwert

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G. William "Bill" Schwert is a retired University of Rochester Simon Business School finance professor, and was the managing editor of the ''Journal of Financial Economics'' (''JFE'') from 1995 to 2021, after previously serving as one of several editors.

Schwert graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut in 1971 and earned a PhD in financial economics from what is now the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1975. Aside from one year as an assistant professor at Chicago, he spent his entire career at Rochester's Simon School before being granted professor emeritus status in 2021. In 1998, he was named Distinguished University Professor of Finance and Statistics. In 2009, he was named a Fellow of the Financial Management Association and in 2019 he was named a Fellow of the American Finance Association. Provided by Wikipedia