Doron Levit
- Professor of Business Economics Marion B. Ingersoll Professor of Finance
Academic Expertise
- business valuation
- corporate finance
- corporate governance
- dividend and payout policy / stock splits
- financial economics
- mergers and acquisitions
- private equity
Positions Held
- Assistant professor, Department of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2011-2020
- Lecturer, Department of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2011
Selected Publications
“The Voting Premium“
Levit, D., Malenko, N., Maug, E., (forthcoming). Journal of Finance.
“ESG: A Panacea for Market Power?“
Levit, D., Bond, P., (forthcoming). Journal of Financial Economics.
“Trading and Shareholder Democracy“
Levit, D., Malenko, D., Maug, E., (2024). Journal of Finance.
“A Theory of One-Size-Fits-All Recommendations“
Levit, D., Tsoy, A., (2022). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 14(4), pp. 318-347.
“Agents of Inequality: Common Ownership and the Decline of the American Worker“
Goshen, Z., Levit, D., (2022). Duke Law Journal, Vol. 72(1), pp. 1-69.
“Words Speak Louder Without Actions“
Levit, D, (2020). Journal of Finance, Vol. 75(1), pp. 91-131.
“Who’s Paying Attention? Measuring Common Ownership and Its Impact on Managerial Incentives“
Levit, D., Gilje, E., & Gormley, T., (2020). Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 137(1), pp. 152-178.
“Corporate Control Activism“
Levit, D., & Corum, A., (2019). Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 133(1), pp. 1-17.
“Soft Shareholder Activism“
Levit, D., (2019). The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 32(7), pp. 2775-2808.
“Governance Under Common Ownership“
Levit, D., Edmans, A., & Reilly, D., (2019). The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 32(7), pp. 2673-2719.