2026 Heitor Almeida: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	48	1472	1312	889	772	130	24900

Overview

Heitor Almeida is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their work spans multiple aspects of business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance. Almeida's research extensively covers corporate finance and governance, banking stability, regulation, efficiency, working capital and financial performance, innovation policy and research and development, risk management in financial firms, insurance and financial risk management, and economic theory and policy.

Almeida has contributed to several publication venues, with a frequent presence in the SSRN Electronic Journal, where they have published nine papers. Other venues include the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (two publications), Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, and The Journal of Finance.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Almeida demonstrate a focus on liquidity, credit, and working capital management. Selected papers include:

Liquidity Management During the Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021, Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash: Replication, Extension, and Robustness, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
The Working Capital Credit Multiplier, 2024, The Journal of Finance

Almeida frequently collaborates with other researchers. Among the most common co-authors are Murillo Campello, Viral V. Acharya, Vyacheslav Fos, Mathias Kronlund, and Michael S. Weisbach. This network of collaboration highlights a strong engagement within the field of financial and economic research.

Key fields of study associated with Almeida's work include:

Business, Management and Accounting
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, subfields covered include:

Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Strategy and Management
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Main research topics Almeida addresses are:

Corporate Finance and Governance
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Working Capital and Financial Performance
Innovation Policy and R&D
Risk Management in Financial Firms
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Economic Theory and Policy

Best Publications

The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Michael S. Weisbach

4947
Citations
Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello

2304
Citations
Powerful CEOs and Their Impact on Corporate Performance

Renée B. Adams;Heitor Almeida;Daniel Ferreira

2227
Citations
Corporate Debt Maturity and the Real Effects of the 2007 Credit Crisis

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Bruno Laranjeira;Scott Weisbenner

1746
Citations
Is Cash Negative Debt?A Hedging Perspective on Corporate Financial Policies

Viral V. Acharya;Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello

1593
Citations
A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups

Heitor V. Almeida;Daniel Wolfenzon

1499
Citations
Understanding the Relationship between Founder-CEOs and Firm Performance

Renée B. Adams;Heitor Almeida;Daniel Ferreira

961
Citations
The Risk-Adjusted Cost of Financial Distress*

Heitor Almeida;Thomas Philippon

703
Citations
Aggregate Risk and the Choice between Cash and Lines of Credit

Viral V. Acharya;Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello

534
Citations
The structure and formation of business groups: Evidence from Korean Chaebols*

Heitor Almeida;Sang Yong Park;Marti G. Subrahmanyam;Daniel Wolfenzon

519
Citations
The Cash Flow Sensitivity of Cash

Heitor Almeida;Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Murillo Campello;Michael S. Weisbach;Michael S. Weisbach

466
Citations
Corporate financial and investment policies when future financing is not frictionless

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Michael S. Weisbach

460
Citations
The real effects of share repurchases

Heitor Almeida;Vyacheslav Fos;Mathias Kronlund

448
Citations
Powerful CEOs and their Impact on Corporate Performance

Heitor Almeida;Heitor Almeida;Renee B. Adams;Daniel Ferreira;Daniel Ferreira

441
Citations
The Real Effects of Credit Ratings: The Sovereign Ceiling Channel

Heitor Almeida;Igor Cunha;Miguel A. Ferreira;Felipe Restrepo

428
Citations
Should business groups be dismantled? The equilibrium costs of efficient internal capital markets

Heitor Almeida;Heitor Almeida;Daniel Wolfenzon;Daniel Wolfenzon

413
Citations
Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

Heitor Almeida;Chang Soo Kim;Hwanki Brian Kim

388
Citations
Corporate Liquidity Management: A Conceptual Framework and Survey

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Murillo Campello;Igor Cunha;Michael S. Weisbach;Michael S. Weisbach

312
Citations
Financing frictions and the substitution between internal and external funds

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello

311
Citations
The Financial Accelerator: Evidence from International Housing Markets

Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Crocker Liu

284
Citations
Financial Constraints, Asset Tangibility, and Corporate Investment

Heitor Almeida;Heitor Almeida;Murillo Campello;Murillo Campello

283
Citations
Credit lines as monitored liquidity insurance: Theory and evidence.

Viral V. Acharya;Viral V. Acharya;Heitor Almeida;Filippo Ippolito;Filippo Ippolito;Filippo Ippolito;Ander Perez;Ander Perez

281
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Murillo Campello University of Florida

Viral V. Acharya New York University

Michael S. Weisbach The Ohio State University

Thomas Philippon New York University

Malcolm P. Baker Harvard University

Scott J. Weisbenner University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Marti G. Subrahmanyam New York University

Crocker H. Liu Cornell University

Miguel A. Ferreira Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Jay R. Ritter University of Florida

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