M. Deniz Yavuz

Assistant Professor of Finance

Areas of Expertise:

Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Finance/Investments - Asset Pricing; Finance/Investments - Corporate Finance

Research interests:

I do research about private equity, international corporate governance and empirical asset pricing. In private equity, I focus on the matching process between private equity managers and venture firms to explain performance persistence puzzle and venture firms' choice of financial contracts. In international corporate governance, I focus on the effect of redistribution on the cost of equity and how family control of the financial system may have adverse implications for the efficiency of capital allocation and economic growth. In empirical asset pricing, I focus on the interaction between behavioral theories and return predictability.

Personal interests:

Oil painting, skiing, table tennis, reading