Oleg Gredil

Biography

Oleg conducts research on financial intermediaries with a primary focus on Private Equity and Hedge funds. His papers have been published at the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Corporate Finance, 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.

Courses

Venture Capital and Private Equity

Research

• Do Private Equity Funds Manipulate Reported Returns? (with G.Brown & S.Kaplan) , Journal of Financial Economics, 132 (2), 2019
• Governance under the Gun: Spillover Effects of Hedge Fund Activism (with N.Gantchev & P.Jotikasthira), Review of Finance 23(6), 2019
• Do Private Equity Managers Have Superior Information on Public Markets? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 51 (1), 2022
• On the Information Content of Credit Ratings and Market-based Measures of Default Risk (w/ N.Kapadia & J.Lee), Journal of Financial Economics, 146 (1), 2022
• Nowcasting Net Asset Values: The Case of Private Equity (with G.Brown & E.Ghysels), Review of Financial Studies, 36 (3), 2023
• Finding Fortune: How Do Institutional Investors Pick Asset Managers? (with G.Brown & P.Kantak), Review of Financial Studies, 2023
• Benchmarking private equity: The direct alpha method (with B.Griffiths, & R.Stucke), Journal of Corporate Finance, 2023

Education & Affiliations

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