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Lubomir Litov is the David M. Moffett Professor of Corporate Finance and an associate professor in finance at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Leonard Stern School of Business at the New York University. Prior to joining the Price College of Business, Dr Litov worked at the University of Arizona and the Washington University in St. Louis. He is also a research associate at the Financial Institutions Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Litov has published research in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Management Science, among others.
“Poison Pills in the Shadow of the Law” co-authored with K.J. Martijn Cremers, Simone M. Sepe, and Michal Zator, forthcoming, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
“Venture Capitalist Directors and Managerial Incentives” co-authored with William Megginson, Romora Sitorus, and Summer Xia, forthcoming, Journal of Corporate Finance.
“The Effect of Policy Uncertainty on Venture Capital Investments Around the World,” co-authored with Professor Summer Liu (University of Richmond) and Romora Sitorus (Indonesian Government), forthcoming, Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting.
"Capitalizing Entrepreneurship: The Rise of Growth Equity" with Bill Megginson, Gabriele Lattanzio and Alina Munteanu, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 2022.
"The Rise of Dual-Class Stock IPOs” with Ofer Eldar, Yael Hochberg, and Dhruv Aggarwal, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
“Expert Advice in the Presence of Conflicts of Interest: The Case of Star-Crossed Acquisitions” with Gil Aharoni, Bryan Lim, and Jordan Neyland, Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.
"Actively Keeping Secrets from Creditors: The Uniform Trade Secrets Act and Financial Leverage” with Scott Guernsey and Kose John, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
“Lead Independent Directors: Good Governance or Window Dressing?” with Landon Mauler and Phillip Lamoureux, Journal of Accounting Literature, 2019.
“Staggered Boards and Long-term Firm Value, Revisited” with K. J. Martijn Cremers and Simone Sepe, Journal of Financial Economics, 2017, Vol. 126: 422-444.
“Shared Auditors in Mergers and Acquisitions” with Dan Dhaliwal, Philip Lamoreaux and Jordan Neyland, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2016, Vol. 61: 49-76.
“Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations” with Simone Sepe and Charles Whitehead, Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 102, 2013.
“Corporate Strategy, Analyst Coverage, and the Uniqueness Discount” with Todd Zenger and Patrick Moreton, Management Science, 2012, Vol. 58 (10): 1797-1815.
“Creditor Rights and Corporate Risk-taking” with Yakov Amihud and Viral Acharya, Journal of Financial Economics, 2011, Vol. 102: 150-166.
“Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements,” with Malcolm Baker, Jessica Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2010, Vol. 45: 1111-1131.
“Managerial Entrenchment and Capital Structure: New Evidence” with Kose John, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2010, Vol. 7: 693-742.
"Earnings Persistence,” with Richard Frankel, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2009, Vol. 47: 182-190 (invited discussion of “Earnings Volatility and Earnings Predictability” by Ilia Dichev and Vicki Tang, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2009, Vol. 47: 160-181).
“Corporate Governance and Risk-Taking” with Kose John and Bernard Yeung, Journal of Finance, 2008, Vol. 63: 1679-1728.
"Large Investors, Price Manipulation, and Market Breakdown - Anatomy of Market Corners,” with Franklin Allen and Jianping Mei, Review of Finance, 2006, Vol. 10: 645-693.
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