Heitor Almeida

• A theory of pyramidal ownership and family business groups
• Corporate debt maturity and the real effects of the 2007 credit crisis
• Corporate demand for liquidity
• Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless
• Financial constraints, asset tangibility, and corporate investment
• Measurement errors in investment equations
• The risk-adjusted cost of financial distress
• The structure and formation of business groups