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Books Principles of Corporat, Fundamentals of Corporat, Solutions Manual: Principles, Fundamentals Corporate Finance, Capital investment and valua | ||
Richard A. Brealey is a British economist and author. He is an Emeritus Professor at the London Business School and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is widely known for his Principles of Corporate Finance, coauthored with Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen (now in its eleventh edition), a text that "has earned tremendous loyalty as both a classroom tool and a professional reference work".
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He was a full-time faculty member of the London Business School from 1968-1998. He has held the posts of Director of the American Finance Association and President of the European Finance Association. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, and European Finance Review.
Professor Brealey is a director of the Swiss Helvetia Fund and a former director of HSBC Investor Funds, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada UK Holdings plc, and Tokai Derivative Products Ltd. He was formerly a special adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England.
He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, with an M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.