Leonce Bargeron

Leonce Bargeron is the PNC Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Kentucky's Gatton College of Business and Economics. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has published extensively in top-tier journals.

• Education
  • BA in Physics, University of Pennsylvania (1988)
  • MA in Economics, University of Virginia (2000)
  • PhD in Finance, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005)
• Research Focus
  • Mergers & acquisitions
  • Corporate governance
  • Payout policy
  • Information asymmetry

Before joining academia, he worked as an options market maker in Philadelphia, London, and Paris, and served as CFO of Ram Tool and Supply Co. His research has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Accounting and Economics.