Oliver Levine

Oliver Levine holds the Howard and Judith Thompson Professorship in the Finance Department. He received his doctorate in finance at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. His research interests include corporate finance, corporate investment, intangible assets, mergers and acquisitions, and agency conflicts.

Prior to his doctoral work, Levine studied at the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon, and worked as a research assistant in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC.

Selected Accepted Journal Articles

• Levine, O. (2016). Acquiring Growth. Journal of Financial Economics
• Babkin, A. & Glover, B. & Levine, O. (2016). Are Corporate Inversions Good for Shareholders?. Journal of Financial Economics
• Glover, B. & Levine, O. (2016). Idiosyncratic Risk and the Manager. Journal of Financial Economics

Selected Published Journal Articles

Glover, B. & Levine, O. (2015). Uncertainty, Investment, and Managerial Incentives. Journal of Monetary Economics (69), 121-137.

Working Papers

Levine, O. & Warusawitharana, M. (2015). Financial Frictions and Productivity Growth: Firm-level Evidence.

Presentations

IBEFA Summer Meetings ( 2013 ) Discussion of "Can equity volatility explain the global loan pricing puzzle?" by Gaul and Uysal

Midwest Finance Association meetings ( 2012 ) Discussion of "Investment and environmental regulation: evidence on the role of cash flow" by Riutort and Dardatt

Undergraduate Courses

Corporation Finance (FIN 325 Section 001), Fall 2016.

Corporation Finance (FIN 325 Section 002), Fall 2016.

Corporation Finance (FIN 325 Section 003), Fall 2016.