K. Ozgur Demirtas

Adjunct Associate Professor of Finance

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Kaufman Management Center
44 West 4th Street, 9-150
New York, NY 10012
Phone number: (212) 998-0300
Email: odemirta@stern.nyu.edu
Personal Site: http://www.ozgur-demirtas.com/

Teaches	Research Interests
Foundations of Finance

Academic Background

Ph.D., 2003, Finance, Boston College
B.S, 1998, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University

Honors

Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching, Baruch College, 2007
Teaching Excellence, Baruch College, 2004 - 2011
Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, 2002

Publications

"Bond versus Stock: Investors' Age and Risk Taking", (with Turan G. Bali, Haim Levy and Avner Wolf) Journal of Monetary Economics, September 2009
"Aggregate Earnings, Firm-Level Earnings and Expected Stock Returns", (with Turan G. Bali and Hassan Tehranian) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, September 2008
"Is There an Intertemporal Relation Between Downside Risk and Expected Returns?", (with Turan G. Bali and Haim Levy) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2009
"Corporate Financing Activities and Contrarian Investment", (with Turan G. Bali and Armen Hovakimian) Review Finance, 2010
"Nonlinear Mean Reversion in Stock Prices", (with Turan G. Bali and Haim Levy) Journal of Banking and Finance, May 2008