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Micah Officer
Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-6519
officer@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, MS, University of Rochester; BCom, University of Auckland
Personal Website: 
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~officer/index.html

Overview

Micah Officer conducts research in empirical corporate finance, specifically mergers and acquisitions, dividend policy, and IPOs. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, and Journal of Business. Professor Officer is an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and has been an ad hoc referee for the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

Research

Club Deals in Leveraged Buyouts • 2010
Inter-Firm Linkages and the Wealth Effects of Financial Distress Along the Supply Chain • 2008
Are performance based arbitrage effects detectable? Evidence from merger arbitrage • 2007
The price of corporate liquidity: Acquisition discounts for unlisted targets • 2007
The Market Pricing of Implicit Options in Merger Collars • 2006
Collars and Renegotiation in Mergers and Acquisitions • 2004
Termination Fees in Mergers and Acquisitions • 2003
Contagion in bank loan spreads
Overinvestment, corporate governance, and dividend initiations
Target-Firm Information Asymmetry and Acquirer Returns
The Variability of IPO Initial Returns