Aazam Virani
Assistant Professor of Finance
McClelland Hall 315F
1130 E. Helen St.
P.O. Box 210108
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0108
Areas of Expertise
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Investor activism
- Law and finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
Degrees
PhD in Finance, University of Toronto, 2014
Courses
- FIN 360 Quantitative Financial Management - Fall/Spring
- FIN 391 Preceptorship - Fall/Spring
Published and Working Papers
- "Collective Action and Governance Activism", with Craig Doidge, Alexander Dyck and Hamed Mahmudi, Review of Finance, 2019, Volume 23, Issue 5, Page 893-933
- "Why are Bidder Termination Provisions Included in Takeovers?", with Zhiyao Chen, Hamed Mahmudi and Xiaofei Zhao, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming
- “Do Agency Problems Drive Political Spending? Evidence from Dodd-Frank Clawback Regulation”, with Tor-Erik Bakke and Hamed Mahmudi, Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Accounting Research
- "The Value Implications of Mandatory Clawback Provisions", with Tor-Erik Bakke and Hamed Mahmudi
- "Quasi-Insider Shareholder Activism: Corporate Governance at the Periphery of Control", with Jonathan Cohn and Mitch Towner