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Center for Financial Research

Visiting Scholars

Amanda Heitz

Amanda Heitz is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business. Her research interests broadly lie in the areas of banking, firm financial disclosure, and corporate social responsibility. She has presented internationally, won multiple awards for her research, and has published in prestigious journals. 

Heitz earned her Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Minnesota in 2015. Before that, she earned a B.S. in Finance, M.S. in Statistics, and M.S. in Applied Mathematics all from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.

https://business.tulane.edu/faculty-research/faculty-profile.php?idkey=229

 


Margarita Tsoutsoura - CFR Visiting Scholar

Margarita Tsoutsoura is an Associate Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, at the Washington University in St. Louis. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow at CEPR and Research Member at ECGI. She serves as associate editor at the Journal of Finance, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Review of Finance. She was formerly tenured Associate Professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University and associate professor at the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago.

Professor Tsoutsoura's research focuses on corporate finance with an emphasis on privately held firms, corporate governance, and labor and finance. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. The Fulbright Fellowship, the Jensen Prize, the Wharton School-WRDS Award and the WFA Trefftzs Award are among Tsoutsoura's other varied honors and fellowships.

Her research has been covered extensively in print and electronic media, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, BusinessWeek, International Herald Tribune, and CNBC.

Tsoutsoura earned her PhD in finance with distinction from the Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, her MSc in financial engineering from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and a BSc in economics from the University of Piraeus in Greece

Margarita Tsoutsoura | Associate Professor of Finance

 

Last Updated: January 18, 2022