The American Finance Association has selected Tyler Muir as the 2025 recipient of the Fischer Black Prize. Tyler Muir is the Donnalisa ’86 and Bill Barnum Endowed Term Chair in Management at UCLA Anderson School of Management. His research interests include asset pricing, financial intermediaries, and financial crises.
Before joining UCLA Anderson, Muir was on the faculty of the Yale School of Management. He also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He earned his Ph.D. in finance from the Kellogg School of Management and his B.A. in mathematics from UC Berkeley.
The Fischer Black Prize honors the memory of Fischer Black, formerly a General Partner at Goldman Sachs and Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago (1971-1975) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975-1984). His seminal research included the development (with Myron Scholes) of the widely applied Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model. The Fischer Black Prize was established in 2002 and honors individual financial research. It is awarded for a body of work that best exemplifies the Fischer Black hallmark of developing original research that is relevant to finance practice.