Amy Dittmar

Amy’s research empirically examines corporate financial decision making. Her recent work investigates the choice between private and public ownership by examining why firms go private. She also has a recent paper investigating the impact of misvaluation on aggregate stock repurchases. Throughout her career, Amy has studied payout and cash policy, capital structure decisions, the relation between financing and investment decisions and the impact of governance on corporate policy and performance. Her work is published in the major finance journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and is reprinted in Recent Developments in Corporate Finance.