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Bradley Policy Research Center

The Bradley Policy Research Center of the Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester was founded as the Center for Research in Government Policy and Business in 1966 under the direction of founding director and world-class economist, Karl Brunner. The Center was renamed in 1987 in honor of a major grant from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

The primary objective of the Bradley Policy Research Center is to promote high-quality research on important issues in economic and business policy. Such an objective requires the raising of funds to finance research, the distribution of research results to targeted recipients within a diverse audience, and the promotion of discussions and conferences regarding the implications of the research.

Perhaps the best indication of the success of the Bradley Center activities is the number of sponsored papers that have appeared in leading scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, American Economic Review, Financial Management, Journal of Finance, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and The Review of Economic Dynamics, a journal that won a national award for the best new journal in the professional and scholarly division, under the management of former Bradley Center director, and current president of the Society for Economic Dynamics, Thomas F. Cooley.

These papers make original research contributions to several areas of study, including executive compensation, corporate performance, the micro-structure of financial markets, money supply and business cycles, stock market volatility, stock returns and corporate earnings reports, and how businesses manage financial risk, social security issues, political economy, etc.

The Bradley Center research and scholarly activities are supported by The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Gleason Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation Inc., and Merrill Lynch.

For more information, contact Sue North