Ivan Brick

Professor Ivan E. Brick joined Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick in 1978. He served as Chair of the Finance and Economics department from 1996 until 2023. Professor Brick is the Executive Director of the Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services.

Professor Brick has published numerous papers in academic journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Quantitative Analysis, International Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Financial Management. His research interests include corporate finance, optimal security design and corporate governance. Currently, he is an associate editor for the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. Previously, he has served as an Associate Editor of Financial Management and Multinational Finance Journal.

Professor Brick has received several teaching awards at the Rutgers Business School. He received the “Outstanding Educator Award” by the 1995 Executive MBA Class. Professor Brick was awarded the “Farrokh Langdana Excellence in Teaching Award” by the 2011 MBA Class. In 2012, the Newark Undergraduate Program awarded him the Dean’s Advisory Council Award for the “Most Knowledgeable Finance Professor,” “The Most Caring Finance Professor,” as well as “The Most Motivational Finance Professor.” For his outstanding service, Professor Brick was awarded the RBS Dean’s Service Award in 2013 and 2016.

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Publications

Selected Refereed Journal Publications:

Brick, I.E., Palia, D. and Qiao, Y., 2024. Impact of internal governance on investment policy: Evidence from CEO voluntary turnovers. Journal of Corporate Finance, 89, p.102676.

Brick, I.E., Chen, Y., Kang, J.K. and Kim, J.M., 2024. Does hedge fund managers’ industry experience matter for hedge fund activism? Financial Management, 53(1), pp.59-97.

Brick, Ivan E., Oded Palmon, and John K. Wald. "CEO compensation, director compensation, and firm performance: Evidence of cronyism?." Journal of Corporate Finance 12.3 (2006): 403-423.

Brick, Ivan E., and S. Abraham Ravid. "On the relevance of debt maturity structure." The Journal of Finance 40.5 (1985): 1423-1437.

Brick, I.E. and Fung, W.K., 1984. Taxes and the theory of trade debt. The Journal of Finance, 39(4), pp.1169-1176.

Brick, Ivan E., and S. Abraham Ravid. "Interest rate uncertainty and the optimal debt maturity structure." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 26.1 (1991): 63-81.

Brick, Ivan E., and N. K. Chidambaran. "Board meetings, committee structure, and firm value." Journal of Corporate Finance 16.4 (2010): 533-553.

Brick, I. E., & Palia, D. (2007). Evidence of jointness in the terms of relationship lending. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 16(3), 452-476.

Brick, I.E. and Fisher, L., 1987. Effects of classifying equity or debt on the value of the firm under tax asymmetry. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 22(4), pp.383-399.

Brick, Ivan E., Oded Palmon, and John K. Wald. "Too much pay-performance sensitivity?" Review of Economics and Statistics 94.1 (2012): 287-303.

Book Publications

Brick, I. E., Ronen, T. And CF Lee eds. 2006, Essays in Microstructure in Honor of David K Whitcomb, Advances in Quantitative Finance and Analysis, June 2006.

Brick, I. E, Lecture Notes in Introduction to Corporate Finance Notes, World Scientific Publishing, 2017 ISSN: 24249955

Brick, I.E. and Poniachek, H.A. eds., 2023. Cases in financial management: applications for financial analysis (Vol. 1). World Scientific.

Casebook Assignment

Apple Takes a Bite Out of Financing Using Interest Rate Swaps by Susan Hume, TCNJ

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Dissertations Supervised

Yankuo Qiao (2021)
Chia Jane Wang (2004)
Michael Pagano (1998)