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Stewart C. Myers

Stewart C. Myers

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
56
Citations
93381
World Ranking
962
National Ranking
601

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Morgan Stanley – American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)

Overview

Stewart C. Myers is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has an active research profile primarily focused on economics, econometrics, and finance as well as business, management, and accounting. Their work is situated within fields including finance, strategy and management, and accounting.

The scientist's recent academic contributions include four papers published between 2020 and 2023. These are:

  • Real Options and Hidden Leverage, 2022, Journal of applied corporate finance
  • Real Options, Taxes and Financial Leverage, 2020, Critical Finance Review
  • Vanderbilt university roundtable on the capital structure puzzle, 2023, Journal of applied corporate finance
  • Risk Capital: Theory and Applications, 2021, Journal of applied corporate finance

Stewart C. Myers frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably James A. Read with whom they have worked on three occasions. Other co-authors include John J. McConnell, Alice Peterson, Dennis Soter, and Joel Stern.

Their publications appear predominantly in these venues:

  • Journal of applied corporate finance (3 publications)
  • Critical Finance Review (1 publication)

Main research topics covered by their work involve:

  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
  • Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Credit Risk and Financial Regulations
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

Stewart C. Myers has received recognition from the finance community, including the Morgan Stanley - American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance in 2016 and being named a Fellow of the American Finance Association in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Corporate financing and investment decisions when firms have information that investors do not have

    Stewart C. Myers;Nicholas S. Majluf

  • Determinants of corporate borrowing

    Stewart C. Myers

  • The Capital Structure Puzzle

    Stewart C. Myers

  • Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions When Firms Have Informationthat Investors Do Not Have

    Stewart C. Myers;Stewart C. Myers;Nicholas S. Majluf

  • Principles of Corporate Finance.

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  • R2 around the world: New theory and new tests

    Li Jin;Stewart C. Myers

  • Testing static tradeoff against pecking order models of capital structure

    Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder;Stewart C. Myers

  • Principios de finanzas corporativas

    Richard A. Brealey;Stewart C. Myers;Franklin Allen

  • Capital Structure Puzzle

    Stewart C. Myers

  • The Paradox of Liquidity

    Stewart C. Myers;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Capital Structure

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  • Finance Theory and Financial Strategy

    Stewart C. Myers

  • Interactions of Corporate Financing and Investment Decisions-Implications for Capital Budgeting

    Stewart C. Myers

  • Capital structure puzzle

    Stewart C Myers

  • Testing static trade-off against pecking order models of capital structure

    Lakshmi Shyam-Sunder;Stewart C Myers;Stewart C Myers

  • Capital Structure Puzzle

    Stewart C. Myers;Stewart C. Myers

  • CAPITAL BUDGETING AND THE CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

    Stewart C. Myers;Stuart M. Turnbull

  • The Internal Governance of Firms

    Viral V. Acharya;Stewart C. Myers;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • VALUATION OF FINANCIAL LEASE CONTRACTS

    Stewart C. Myers;David A. Dill;Alberto J. Bautista

  • Fundamentos de finanzas corporativas

    Richard A. Brealey;Stewart Myers;Alan J. Marcus

  • FINANCING OF CORPORATIONS

    Stewart C. Myers

  • R&D Accounting and the Tradeoff Between Relevance and Objectivity

    Paul M. Healy;Stewart C. Myers;Christopher D. Howe

  • Financing of corporations

    Stewart C. Myers

  • STILL SEARCHING FOR OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE

    Stewart C. Myers

  • CAPITAL ALLOCATION FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES

    Stewart C. Myers;James A. Read

Frequent Co-Authors

Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago
Franklin Allen
Franklin Allen Imperial College London
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya New York University
Paul M. Healy
Paul M. Healy Harvard University
Mark J. Flannery
Mark J. Flannery University of Florida
Charles Goodhart
Charles Goodhart London School of Economics and Political Science
Marti G. Subrahmanyam
Marti G. Subrahmanyam New York University
Marshall E. Blume
Marshall E. Blume University of Pennsylvania
George J. Benston
George J. Benston Emory University

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