James A. Brickley

Gleason Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Economics and Management and of Finance; Area Coordinator, Competitive and Organizational Strategy Office: CS-3-160L Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-3433 Email: jim.brickley@simon.rochester.edu Download Vita (PDF)

Professor Brickley has research and teaching interests in the economics of organizations, corporate governance and compensation policy, corporate finance, franchising and banking. His papers have been published in the Journal of Business,the Journal of Law and Economics,The Journalof Finance,the Journal of Accounting and Economics,the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Economic Perspectives,the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, the Journal of Risk and Insurance,the Journal of Financialand Quantitative Analysis, Financial Managementand the Journal of Corporate Finance.The fifth edition of Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture(authored by Brickley, Clifford W. Smith Jr. and Jerold L. Zimmerman) was published by McGraw-Hill/Irwin in 2009.Brickley, Smith, Zimmerman and Janice Willett authored a trade version of this text entitled Designing Organizations to Create Value,published by McGraw-Hill in 2003. Brickley is associate editor of finance and accounting journals. A study published in Financial Management (Autumn 2001) re­ported that Brickley was among the most cited researchers in leading finance journals over the 25-year period of 1974 to 1998 (top one percent out of a total of 12,637 individuals). In 2002, three of his published papers received the Journal of Financial Economics All Star Paper Award (based on number of citations through 2001).

From 1989 to 1991, he was chairman of the finance department and research director at the University of Utah’s Garn Institute of Finance. Prior to his position at the University of Utah, Brickley was an associate professor of economics at the Simon School. He is chairman of the Faculty Curriculum Committee.

Brickley is a past winner of the Simon School’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also been listed multiple times on the School’s Teaching Honor Roll.

In addition to his academic achievements, Brickley has been a consultant to major corporations and law firms on organizational, franchising, valuations and antitrust issues. He has also held various positions in government in the state of Oregon, including executive director of the Jackson-Josephine County C.E.T.A. Program, public transportation planner for the Rogue Valley Council of Governments and economic analyst for an economic development district.

• BS, Economics
  University of Oregon
• MS, Economics
  University of Oregon
• PhD, Finance
  University of Oregon