Chris Brooks is Professor of Finance in the School of Accounting and Finance[1] at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
Brooks was formerly Professor of Finance at the ICMA Centre, part of Henley Business School, University of Reading, and the Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School, City University London. He holds a PhD and a BA in Economics and Econometrics, both from the Department of Economics at the University of Reading. His teaching has included statistics, econometrics, asset pricing and portfolio management, corporate finance and the philosophy of research. Brooks has acted as advisor and consultant to various agencies and companies and has been on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the International Journal of Forecasting,[2] Journal of Business Finance & Accounting,[3] and the British Accounting Review.[4] He was a member of the Accounting and Finance sub-panel for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise[5] and of the Business and Management sub-panel for the Research Excellence Framework 2014.[6] Brooks is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Conference of Professors of Accounting and Finance[7] and is a member of the ESRC peer review college.[8] He has received research funding from the ESRC[9] and from the Leverhulme Trust, amongst other funders.[10]
Brooks has diverse research interests including asset pricing, fund management, behavioural finance, financial history, and econometric analysis and modelling in finance and real estate. He is author or co-author of over 140 published articles and author or co-editor of seven books[11] that have been cited more than 10000 times.[12] Brooks is well known as author of the first introductory econometrics textbook targeted at finance students, Introductory Econometrics for Finance (2019, Cambridge University Press), which now is in its fourth edition and has sold over 70,000 copies worldwide since it was first published.[13] Most of his research is available either through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN, Author ID: 14685) or at the CentAUR, University of Reading repository.
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