Michael Brennan joins Manchester Business School
Professor Michael Brennan will join Manchester Business School as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Accounting and Finance in May.
Educated at Oxford, The University of Pittsburgh and MIT, Professor Brennan is a consultant and director of the investment management firm, Smith Breeden Associates, and Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is the former Irwin and Goldyne Hearsh Professor of Banking and Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles and is also currently Emeritus Professor at UCLA.
Professor Brennan’s research interests include asset pricing, corporate finance, the pricing and role of derivative securities, market microstructure, and the role of information in capital markets, and he’s published extensively in all of these areas. He’s currently working on several issues, including the problem of asset allocation, the determinants of international flows of portfolio investment and the valuation of assets under time-varying market risk aversion. In 2002 he presented the first Clarendon Lectures in Finance at the University of Oxford.
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