Paige Fields, Ph.D

Associate Professor
Texas A&M University

Paige Fields has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Finance from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of South Carolina. She has been on the faculty at the University of Kentucky, the University of Arizona, and most recently (for the past thirteen years) Texas A&M University. Dr. Fields has taught corporate finance at the undergraduate, Master‘s, and Ph.D. levels, and served as Ph.D. Coordinator in Finance from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Fields has received many awards in recognition of teaching excellence, including being named a Mays Faculty Fellow for Teaching Innovation and being awarded both the College and University Level Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards in Teaching.

Dr. Fields’ research interests are primarily in the areas of corporate finance and banking with specific focus on corporate governance, capital structure decisions, determinants of loan pricing and covenant requirements, and the impact of firm opaqueness on the cost of financing. She has published numerous articles in leading scholarly journals including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Journal of Corporate Finance.