Gordon Phillips (economist)
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Gordon M. Phillips is an American financial economist who is the Laurence F. Whittemore Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He specializes in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and the application of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) to finance. Phillips is a faculty advisor at Tuck’s Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital and previously served as its faculty director. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and has held visiting appointments at Tsinghua University (Beijing), UNSW Sydney, Harvard Business School, Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, and MIT.[1][2][3]
Phillips’s research has appeared in journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Economic Studies, Econometrica, and Management Science.[1]
Phillips received his BA from Northwestern University in 1986 and his MA and PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1991.[1]
Academic career
Phillips is a member of the finance faculty at Tuck, where he holds the Laurence F. Whittemore chair. He serves as a faculty advisor to the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital and previously served as its faculty director. He is a research associate at the NBER and has held visiting research positions at several universities, including Tsinghua University and UNSW Sydney, as well as visiting positions at Harvard Business School, Duke University, HEC Paris, INSEAD, and MIT.[1][2][3]
Research
Phillips’s work examines how financial decisions interact with product-market behavior, competition, and firm boundaries. He has coauthored studies using text-based methods to measure product-market synergies and industry structure, and he has published research on credit access, employment, and entrepreneurship.[4][5][6]
