Online Seminar: Where Have the Profits Gone? Market Efficiency and the Disappearing Equity Anomalies in Country and Industry Returns – Dr. Mehmet Umutlu
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Dr. Mehmet Umutlu
Dr. Mehmet Umutlu is an Associate Professor of Finance at Yaşar University. Before joining to Yaşar University, he held several positions in Turkey as well as abroad. He served as an Assistant Professor of Finance and as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Department of Accounting and Finance at Lancaster University in the UK. He visited the Department of Finance at Tilburg University in Netherlands as a Postdoctoral Fellow. He took role at Çankaya University in Turkey as an Assistant Professor of Finance. He received BSc degree in Civil Engineering at Middle East Technical University; completed the MBA program at Hacettepe University; and earned PhD degree at Bilkent University in the track of Finance.
His main research interests fall in the areas of asset pricing, investments, portfolio management and financial economics. His papers appeared in journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Financial Analysts Journal, International Review of Financial Analysis, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of Derivatives, Investment Analysts Journal, World Economy, Applied Economics, Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Quality and Quantity all of which are covered by SSCI. He served as a reviewer for several international journals, and for international and national research projects. He acted as the Principal Investigator for a project sponsored by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and as a Researcher in another one. He acted as presenter, discussant, and chair at national and international conferences and seminars. He is the recipient of Successful Researcher Award given by Yaşar University.