Andres Almazan
Director of Canfield Business Honor Program
Department: Finance
Additional Titles: Professor; Bank of America Centennial Fellow
Industry Areas: Business Management, Capital Markets, Investment Banking
Research Areas: Agency Theory, Banking, Capital Markets, Capital Structure, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions
Dr. Andres Almazan is Professor in the Department of Finance. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching interests include corporate finance, financial intermediation and banking and contact theory.
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2009 |
Outstanding Faculty Award: Professional Contribution (EMBA-Mexico City)
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2006 |
Teacher of the Year MIT-Sloan
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2009 |
Elective Outstanding Instructor, 2002, 2003, 2006
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2004 |
Joe D. Beasley Award for MBA Teaching at McCombs School of Business
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2001 |
Trammell/CBA Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors
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Publications
Andres Almazan, Zhaohui Chen, and Sheridan Titman. 2017. Firm Investment and Stakeholder Choices: A Top-Down Theory of Capital Budgeting. Journal of Finance 72(5), 2179-2228.
Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, and Sheridan Titman. 2015. Debt, Labor Markets, and the Creation and Destruction of Firms. Journal of Financial Economics 118(3), 636-657.
Andres Almazan, Alfredo Martin-Oliver, and Jesus Saurina. 2015. Securitization and Banks' Capital Structure. Review of Corporate Finance Studies 4(2), 206-238.
Andres Almazan, Aldolfo De Motta, Sheridan Titman, and Vahap Uysal. 2010. Financial Structure, Acquisition Opportunities, and Firm Locations. Journal of Finance 65(2), 529-563.
Andres Almazan, Javier Suarez, and Sheridan Titman. 2009. Firms' Stakeholders and the Costs of Transparency. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, 871-900.
Andres Almazan, Sanjay Banerjee, and Adolfo de Motta. 2008. Attracting Attention: Cheap Managerial Talk and Costly Market Monitoring. Journal of Finance 63, 1399-1436.
Andres Almazan, Adolfo de Motta, and Sheridan Titman. 2007. Firm Location and the Creation and Utilization of Human Capital. Review of Economics Studies 74, 1305-27.
Jay C. Hartzell, Andres Almazan, and Laura T. Starks. 2005. Active Institutional Shareholders and Costs of Monitoring: Evidence from Executive Compensation. Financial Management (Financial Management Association) 34, p5-34.
Andres Almazan and Carlos A. Molina. 2005. Intra-Industry Capital Structure Dispersion. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 14, 263-297.
Andres Almazan, Keith C. Brown, Murray Carlson, and David A. Chapman. 2004. Why Constrain Your Mutual Fund Manager? Journal of Financial Economics 73, 289-321.
Andres Almazan and Javier Suarez. 2003. Entrenchment and Severance Pay in Optimal Governance Structures. Journal of Finance 78.
Andres Almazan and Javier Suarez. 2003. Managerial Compensation and the Market Reaction to Bank Loans. Review of Financial Studies 16, 237-261.
Andres Almazan. 2002. A Model of Competition in Banking: Bank Capital vs. Expertise. Journal of Financial Intermediation 11, 87-121.