Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002- present.

Visiting Professor, Fuqua School, Duke University. 1/2003-2/2003.

Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2001-2002.

Background and Area of Expertise:

Gordon Phillips received his MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. He is a professor at the University of Maryland and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He also has been a visiting professor at MIT and Duke University.

His areas of research include corporate finance and how financial decisions impact firms' strategic decisions, and contracting in futures and forward oil markets. His work in corporate finance includes studies of private equity issuance, capital structure, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, how leverage buyouts and other forms of high debt influence a firms' and rivals' investment decisions. Recent research published in the Journal of Finance has been on how firms organize across multiple markets and on the gains from mergers and acquisitions. He recently presented the keynote address on PIPEs (private investment in public equity) to an audience of executives and finance professionals. He has served as an associate editor at The Review of Financial Studies and The Journal of Corporate Finance.

At Maryland, he has taught the first-year core MBA finance course, an advanced second year corporate finance course and introductory and advanced Ph.D. courses. He has also taught executive MBA courses in introductory and advanced finance. He has received the Krowe teaching award for teaching excellence in the MBA core course in finance.

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