Michael Brennan

Michael J. Brennan (born November 14, 1942) is emeritus professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and previously a professor at the London Business School. He co-designed the Brennan-Schwartz interest rate model and was a pioneer of real options theory. His writings have been published extensively.

Professor Brennan's research interests cover real options, asset pricing, corporate finance, derivative securities, market microstructure, and the role of information in capital markets. He is a former president of the American Finance Association, and has served as editor of the Journal of Finance and was the founding editor of the Review of Financial Studies; the Michael Brennan Award is named for him. He was a founding partner and director of the Real Options Group since its inception. He has served as consultant to businesses and governments in the US and Canada.

He holds a B.Phil. in Economics (1964) from Oxford University, an MBA (1967) from the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in business (1970) from the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Notre Dame.

Selected publications Brennan, M.J., The Role of Learning in Dynamic Portfolio Decisions, European Finance Review, 1, 295-306 (1998). Brennan, M.J. and Torous, W.N., Individual Decision Making and Investor Welfare, Economic Notes, 28, 2, 119-143 (July 1999). Brennan, M.J., Chordia, T. and Subrahmanyam, A., Alternative Factor Specifications, Security Characteristics, and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Financial Economics, 49, 3, 345-373 (September 1998). Brennan, M.J. and Franks, J.R., Underpricing, Ownership and Control in Initial Public Offerings of Equity Securities in the UK, Journal of Financial Economics, 45, 391-413 (September 1997).