Gordon Phillips (economist)

Gordon Phillips is an American financial economist, currently at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College.

[1] Gordon Phillips is currently the C.V. Starr Foundation Professor and Faculty Advisor at the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business.

His work in corporate finance includes studies of private equity issuance, capital structure, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and how leverage buyouts and other forms of high debt influence a firms' and rivals' investment decisions.

Research published in the Journal of Finance has been on real and financial booms, busts and mergers and acquisitions and how firms organize across multiple markets.

He recently presented the keynote address on PIPEs (private investment in public equity) to an audience of executives and finance professionals.