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Armen Hovakimian
Armen Hovakimian
Associate Professor of Economics and Finance
Armen_Hovakimian@baruch.cuny.edu
http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/ahovakimian/
Education:
BS Yerevan Polytechnic Institute Computer Engineering 1984 MBA American University of Armenia 1993 PhD Boston College Finance 1998
Areas of Expertise:
Corporate Finance, Financial Institutions
Selected Publications:
"The Role of Target Leverage in Security Issues and Repurchases," Journal of Business, October 2004, volume 77, No. 4.
" Determinants of Target Capital Structure: The case of Combined Debt and Equity Financing," (with G. Hovakimian and H. Tehranian) Journal of Financial Economics, March 2004, volume 71, No. 3.
"Debt-Equity Choice" (with T. Opler and S. Titman). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 36 (1), March 2001.
"Effectiveness of Capital Regulation at U.S. Commercial Banks, 1985-1994" (with E. J. Kane). Journal of Finance, 55 (1), February 2000.
Academic Activities:
Conference Presentations:
- American Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2003, 2005.
- European Finance Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, 2002.
- Financial Management Association Annual Meetings, 1996, 2000, 2002.
- Financial Management Association International, European Conference, 1999.
- Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, Stern School, NYU, November 1998.
- Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, 1998.
- FMA Doctoral Student Consortium, 1996.
- New England Finance Doctoral Students Symposium, 1996.
Professional Activities:
Ad hoc reviewer, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, International Review of Finance.
Awards, Honors, etc.:
FDIC Center for Financial Research Funding Recipient, 2004.
Eugene Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, Baruch College, 1999.
