George Bittlingmayer

Interests:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Stock market volatility
• Financial and economic effects of regulation and political uncertainty
• Telecommunications finance and policy
• Economic and business history

George Bittlingmayer is the Wagnon Distinguished Professor of Finance at the School of Business, University of Kansas.  A good deal of his work has focused on how public policies affect financial markets, investment by business, and mergers and acquisitions.  His research has established a link between episodic attacks on business with some of the major financial and economic downturns of the 20th century, including the Panic of 1907 and the October 1929 Crash.  He has also examined the financial effects of antitrust actions directed against Microsoft.  His recent interests include the financial effects of broadband regulation.

Professor Bittlingmayer teaches investments and an economics course for Ph.D. students.  He has served as consultant for major corporations and government agencies in matters involving mergers, valuation, breach of contract, and manufacturer-distributor relations across a number of industries including telecommunications, chemicals, forest products, mining, automobile manufacture and publishing.

He graduated from Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in economics and German and received his masters and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He has held research positions at the University of Michigan, Washington University, the University of Chicago and the University of California, Davis.  He also served as a visiting economist at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and as a research fellow at the International Institute of Management, Berlin.