Gregg A. Jarrell

Professor of Finance and Economics Office: CS-4-110A Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-8305 Email: gregg.jarrell@simon.rochester.edu

Professor Jarrell has been a professor of finance and economics at the Simon School since 1988, where he also was assistant professor from 1977 to 1981. Jarrell served as director of the Simon School’s Managerial Economics Research Center from 1988 to 1990, and as director of the Bradley Policy Research Center from 1990 to 1994. Also, he was the AT&T Foundation Resident Management Fellow at the Simon School from January to June 1987. In addition, Jarrell was a Research Fellow under Professor George J. Stigler at the University of Chicago’s Center for Study of the Economy and the State from 1981 to 1983, as well as a senior economist with Lexecon Inc., a Chicago economics consulting firm specializing in Antitrust and Securities litigation from 1983 to 1984.

Jarrell served as the chief economist of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from April 1984 to January 1987. Before that, he was a member of the SEC Advisory Committee on Tender Offer Policy from February through July 1983. He has consulted with the Federal Trade Commission and has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University School of Law.

Jarrell has published dozens of articles on economic and finance topics in scholarly academic journals, as well as the popular media, and is an expert on mergers and acquisitions, hostile takeovers, the economics and regulation of financial markets, financial valuation and microeconomic theory and application. Jarrell frequently serves as an expert witness on financial-economic issues in business litigation, including financial valuation of publicly traded securities, securities fraud, contract damages and criminal inside-trading cases.

 

• BS, Business Administration
  University of Delaware
• MBA, Economics and Finance
  University of Chicago
• PhD, Business Economics
  University of Chicago