Paige Parker Ouimet

Professor of Finance

Research Associate, NBER

Executive Director, Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise

Kenan-Flagler Business School

University of North Carolina

Published Papers

Ma, Ouimet and Simintzi. 2025.  Mergers and Acquisitions, Technological Change and Inequality. Journal of Financial Economics, 172. 

Babina, Ouimet and Zarutskie.  2025.  IPOs, Human Capital and Labor Reallocation.  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 60, 2584-2614.

Ouimet, Simintzi and Ye.  2025. The Impact of the Opioid Crisis on Firm Value and Investment. Review of Financial Studies, 38, 1291-1332 

• Lead article/Editor's choice

Liu, Makridis, Ouimet and Simintzi. 2023. The Distribution of Non-Wage Benefits: Maternity Benefits and Gender Diversity, Review of Financial Studies, 36, 194-234.

Davis, Ouimet and Wang. 2022.  Hidden Performance: Salary History Bans and the Gender Wage Gap, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 11, 511-553.

• Best Registered Report on Discrimination, Disparities, and Diversity in Finance.  

Ouimet and Simintzi. 2021. Wages and Firm Performance: Evidence from the 2008 Financial Crisis, Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 10, 273-305.

• Best Paper Award.

Ouimet and Zarutskie.  2020.  Acquiring Labor, Quarterly Journal of Finance.

Ouimet and Tate. 2020.  Attention for the Inattentive: Positive Effects of Negative Financial Shocks, Review of Finance, 24, 615-646.

Ouimet and Tate.  2020.  Learning from Coworkers: Peer Effects on Individual Investment Decisions, Journal of Finance, 75, 133-172.

Aldatmaz, Ouimet and Van Wesep. 2018. The Option to Quit: The Effect of Employee Stock Options on Turnover Journal of Financial Economics, 127, 136-151.

Mueller, Ouimet and Simintzi. 2017. Within Firm Pay Inequality, Review of Financial Studies, 30, 3605-3635.

Mueller, Ouimet and Simintzi. 2017. Wage Inequality and Firm Growth, American Economic Review P&P, 107, 379-383.

Ouimet and Zarutskie.  2014.  Who Works for Startups? The Relation between Firm Age, Employee Age and Growth, Journal of Financial Economics 112, 386-407.

Kim and Ouimet.  2014. Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Employee Compensation and Firm Value, Journal of Finance 69, 1273-1319.

Ouimet. 2013.  What Motivates Minority Acquisitions? The Trade-Offs between a Partial Equity Stake and Complete Integration, Review of Financial Studies 26, 1021-1047.

Chari, Ouimet and Tesar. 2010. The Value of Control in Emerging Markets, Review of Financial Studies 23, 1741-1770.

Brophy, Ouimet, and Sialm. 2009. Hedge Funds as Investors of Last Resort?, Review of Financial Studies 22, 541-574.

Working Papers

Ouimet and Tate.  2022.  Firms with Benefits?  Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets.

• Presented at AFA

Al-Sabah and Ouimet. 2022. For Better or Worse?  The Economic Implications of Paid Sick Leave Mandates. 

• Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Financial Economics

• Presented at AFA

Babina, Ma, Moser, Ouimet and Zarutskie. Pay, Employment and Dynamics of Young Firms.

• Presented at AFA, SOLE