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Gerard Hoberg

  • Director of The Institute for Outlier Research in Business (iORB)
  • Charles E. Cook Community Bank Chair of Finance
  • Professor of Finance and Business Economics

Gerard Hoberg is the Charles E. Cook Community BankProfessor of Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business, where he has beena member of the faculty since 2014. He waspreviously at the University of Maryland and received his PhD from YaleUniversity in 2004. His research isprimarily in the area of corporate finance with a focus on topics includinginitial public offerings, mergers, disclosure, informational environments,innovation, and the role of industrial organization and product marketcompetition in corporate finance and related areas. He also has work inempirical asset pricing, and is known for methodological contributions thatbring new technologies from computational linguistics into research infinancial economics. Gerard also spentone year as a Visiting Scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission. His work has been published in scholarlyjournals including: Journal of Finance,Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review ofFinancial Studies. He was alsoawarded three NSF grants and will be serving as an Editor for the Review of Financial Studies. His teaching interests are in corporatefinance, especially in the area of mergers, financial restructuring, andissuance.

Gerard Hoberg

Areas of Expertise

Big Data
Competition
Corporate Finance
Financial Crisis
Industrial Organization
Innovation
Investment
IPOs
Litigation Risk
Mergers

Departments

Finance + Business Economics

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