George S. Oldfield

Who is George S. Oldfield?

George S. Oldfield is a prominent academic in the field of finance. He has been published extensively, and is cited for his work on the effects of a firm's unvested pension benefits on its share price published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking in 1977.

He was the Richard S. Reynolds, Jr. Professor of Finance at the Mason School of Business at the College of William & Mary, and a faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He is the 2002 recipient of the Business Week Business School Survey "Master Teacher" award.

He is a consultant with The Brattle Group, and in government, has worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and served as Economic Research Fellow at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. in economics from the College of William and Mary.