Tristan James Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor of Finance
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Email: tfitzgerald@mays.tamu.edu
Address: 351N Wehner Building, Mays Business School, 4218 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843
Research Interests: Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, Corporate Governance
Teaching: FINC468 - Entrepreneurial Finance/FINC 644 - Funding New Ventures; EMBA FINC 612 - Finance for the Professional I
Biography: Tristan is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley in 2018. He also received a Bachelor in Commerce and a Bachelor in Laws from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2009.
Motivated by his investment banking and corporate finance advisory experience at J.P. Morgan, Macquarie Bank and Ernst & Young, Tristan is interested in understanding the impact of financial transactions and financial intermediaries on the real economy. In particular, he is interested in how financial markets and financial intermediaries may actively shape the nature of innovation undertaken by firms and entrepreneurs as well as the role of skilled human capital in driving firm productivity. His research also considers how corporate governance and government policy may influence firm strategy and corporate outcomes.
Publications
"Innovation Search Strategy and Predictable Returns" (with Benjamin Balsmeier, Lee Fleming and Gustavo Manso)
(2021) Management Science 67(2): 1109-1137
Presentations: Global Entrepreneurship & Innovation Conference (2018); Texas A&M University (2018); Berkeley Fung Institute's Innovation & Finance Conference (2017); University of California, Berkeley (2017)
"Unconstrained estimates of the equity risk premium" (with Stephen Gray, Jason Hall and Ravi Jeyaraj)
(2013) Review of Accounting Studies 18: 560-639
Working Papers
"Shared Culture and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Corporate R&D Teams" (with Xiaoding Liu)
Presentations: SFS Cavalcade NA (2024); China International Conference in Finance (CICF) (2024); Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference (GEIRC) (2024); Financial Intermediation Research Society (FIRS) Conference (2023); Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting (2023); Ediburgh Corporate Finance Conference (2023); American Economic Association (AEA) Annual Meeting (2022); Western Finance Association (WFA) Annual Meeting (2021); American Finance Association (AFA) Annual Meeting (2021); Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) Annual Meeting (2021); University of Massachusetts (2021); Lone Star Finance Symposium (2020); EPFL Innovation Seminar (2020); Texas A&M University (2020)
"Til Death Do Us Part: The Relative Merits of Founder CEOs"
Presentations: New Zealand Finance Meeting (2022); Monash University (2022); University of Sydney (2022); University of Queensland (2022); Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference (2022); Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting (2020); Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (2020); Lone Star Finance Symposium (2019); Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting (2019); Texas A&M University (2019); University of California, Berkeley (2018)
"Financial Contracting for Innovation: Property Rights in Action"
Presentations: Australasian Finance & Banking Conference (2021); Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting (2020); Texas A&M University (2018); University of Georgia (2018); Vanderbilt University (2018); Nanyang Business School (2018); University of Melbourne (2017); Joint Berkeley-Stanford Finance Seminar (2017); University of California, Berkeley (2017)