Finance Seminar: Gerard Hoberg, USC Marshall School of Business

Gerard Hoberg, USC Marshall School of Business

Gerard Hoberg is the Charles E. Cook Community Bank Professor of Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2014. He was previously at the University of Maryland and received his PhD from Yale University in 2004. His research is primarily in the area of corporate finance with a focus on topics including initial public offerings, mergers, disclosure, informational environments, innovation, and the role of industrial organization and product market competition in corporate finance and related areas. He also has work in empirical asset pricing and is known for methodological contributions that bring new technologies from computational linguistics into research in financial economics. Gerard also spent one year as a Visiting Scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission. His work has been published in scholarly journals including: Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Review of Financial Studies. He was also awarded three NSF grants. His teaching interests are in corporate finance, especially in the areas of mergers, financial restructuring, and issuance.

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Talk sponsored by the Mendoza College of Business Finance Department as part of the Eugene B. Clark Research Seminar Series. Free and open to the Mendoza and campus community. Contact Stefano Pegoraro for more details.