Oleg Gredil

Biography

Oleg conducts research on financial intermediaries with a primary focus on Private Equity and Hedge funds. His papers have been accepted for publications at the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and featured in NBER Digest, Wall Street Journal, Private Equity Findings, and London Business School Roundtable on Private Equity fundraising and Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. Oleg has presented at the major academic conferences such as the annual meetings of American Finance Association, Financial Intermediation Research Society, and Financial Management Association. Prior to pursuing graduate studies he worked for six year in investment banking and portfolio management in Russia.

Courses

Venture Capital and Private Equity

Research

• Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns? (with Greg Brown and Steve Kaplan) , Journal of Financial Economics, 132 (2), 2019
• Governance under the Gun: Spillover Effects of Hedge Fund Activism (with Nick Gantchev and Pab Jotikasthira), Review of Finance, 2019
• Do Private Equity Managers Have Superior Information on Public Markets? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
• On the information content of credit ratings and market-based measures of default risk (with Nishad Kapadia and Junghoon Lee), accepted in the Journal of Financial Economics
• Nowcasting Net Asset Values: The Case of Private Equity, Forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies
• Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers?, Forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies

Education & Affiliations

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: PhD, MBA
Research Fellow, Private Equity Research Consortium