G. William "Bill" Schwert is a retired[citation needed] University of Rochester Simon Business School finance professor,[1] and was the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) from 1995 to 2021,[citation needed] after previously serving as one of several editors.
[1] 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.
[2] 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.
[citation needed] In 1998, he was named Distinguished University Professor of Finance and Statistics.
publications concern the volatility of stock market prices.