Edward Rice - Faculty Profile- Michael G. Foster School of Business

"Productive activities are not randomly organized, and the observed characteristics of the typical organization exist because they improve its ability to compete. The cost of using an inappropriate organizational structure can be substantial."

Edward Rice

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Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics
Faculty Director, E-Business Program

PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1978
MBA, University of Rochester, 1973
BA, University of Rochester, 1972

Phone:	206-543-4480	Mailing Address:
Fax:	206-543-7472	Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office: Email:	338 Mackenzie Hall erice@u.washington.edu	Finance Department Box 353200 Seattle, WA 98195-3200

Faculty Personal Web Page: http://bschool.washington.edu/myweb/erice/

Specialties

Corporate control, general corporate finance, applied microeconomics, Alaskan native corporations.

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 1979
Visiting associate professor at University of Chicago (1986-88)
Assistant professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1977-79)

Selected Publications

"Organizational Form, Share Transferability, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the ANCSA Corporations," with J. Karpoff, Journal of Financial Economics, September 1989.

"Going Private: Minority Freezeouts and Stockholder Wealth," with H. DeAngelo and L. DeAngelo, Journal of Law and Economics, October 1984.

"Antitakeover Charter Amendments and Stockholder Wealth," with H. DeAngelo, Journal of Financial Economics, April 1983.

Current Research

Correcting biases in discount rates used for capital budgeting
the meaning of stock price changes when events affect shareholders differently
the effect of health insurance on trauma care

Honors and Awards

Evening MBA Professor of the Year, Class of 2010 (2008)
Charles Summer Outstanding Teaching Award (2006)
Evening MBA Professor of the Quarter for Autumn, Class of 2009 (2007)
Evening MBA Professor of the Quarter for Autumn, Class of 2008 (2005, 2007)
Outstanding Professor, Evening MBA, Class of 2005 (2003)
Evening MBA Core Professor the Year, Class of 2004 (2003)
Evening MBA Outstanding Professor, Class of 2003 (2003)
MBA Elective Professor of the Quarter for Spring 2003 (2003)
MBA Core Professor of the Year (1995)
Bank of America Faculty Excellence Award (1984)
Distinguished Speaker in Finance from the Administrative Science Association of Canada (1983)

Selected Consulting Experience

Price Costco and Amgen, expert witness.

Academic Service

Associate editor of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (1985-93)
Program committee member for the Western Finance Association (1988)
Member of numerous UW and Business School committees, including dissertation committees.