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Mara Faccio

Business, Management and Accounting · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1999
Corporate Finance and GovernancePolitical Influence and Corporate StrategiesCorporate Taxation and AvoidanceBanking stability, regulation, efficiencyFinancial Markets and Investment Strategies

Publications

92

Citations

21,662

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

28

Publishing since 1999

Research summary
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Mara Faccio's research focuses on corporate finance topics such as how taxation affects firm capital structure and financial distress, how political connections influence business decisions and market outcomes, and how corporate governance and ownership structures (including business groups) shape firm behavior. Her work often uses detailed firm- or establishment-level data, sometimes historical, to study how government policy and political ties intersect with corporate decision-making. This research would suit students interested in empirical corporate finance, taxation, political economy of business, or corporate governance.

Corporate taxation and capital structurePolitical connections and corporate strategyCorporate governance and ownership structuresFinancial distress and firm resilienceMarket competition and regulation

Publication output has fluctuated over the last decade, with a dip around 2022-2023 followed by a marked increase in output during 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.8/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 6 publications6202021: 4 publications21222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242025: 6 publications6252026: 5 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×15
  • National Bureau of Economic Research×6
  • Harvard Dataverse×3
  • Journal of Corporate Finance×2
  • The Journal of Finance×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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