University of Pittsburgh

Faculty

Leonce Bargeron

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Office: 346 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1642
E-mail: LLBargeron@katz.pitt.edu

Degrees

PhD in Finance, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
MA in Economics, University of Virginia
BA in Physics, University of Pennsylvania

Interest Group

Finance

Profile

Leonce Bargeron joined the finance faculty in 2005. His research interests include mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, asymmetric information, and options. Prior to pursuing his academic career, Professor Bargeron was an options market maker for six years (three years trading foreign currency options on the floor of Philadelphia’s PHLX, two years trading FTSE 100 options on the floor of London’s LIFFE and one year trading OTC options for BNP in Paris). Subsequent to trading, he served for two years as the CFO of Ram Tool and Supply Co.

Courses Recently Taught

BUSFIN 1030 Introduction to Finance

Recent Publications

"Why Do Private Acquirers Pay So Little Compared to Public Acquirers?" with Frederik Schlingemann, René Stulz, and Chad Zutter, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming

Recent Working Papers

"Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Risk Taking" with Kenneth Lehn and Chad Zutter

"The Subprime Crisis and Systemic Risk: Evidence from U.S. Securities Markets" (with Ken Lehn and Mehmet Yalin)

"Decomposing Firm Volatility: Changing Estimates of Systematic Risk and Firms' Information Environment" (with Eitan Goldman, Ron Kaniel, and Laura Starks)

"Do Shareholder Tender Agreements Inform or Expropriate Shareholders?"

Awards and Honors

CBA Best Teaching in a Core Course Award 2007/08