Kristi Minnick Westerling

Professor Kristina Minnick's research focuses on empirical corporate finance, particularly corporate governance, executive compensation, director compensation, and banking. She has also studied mergers and acquisitions and the relationship between cultural values and corporate finance. Her academic interests include corporate finance, mergers, and acquisitions, international finance, investments, and banking. In addition to teaching at John Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, she was a business analyst at Fidelity Investments and a visiting scholar at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. She has presented at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, including in the Czech Republic, Spain, and the Netherlands, and has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, as well as numerous other top journals.