Personal

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• Born August 1984 in Istanbul, Turkey

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Research Areas

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• Household finance, behavioral finance, empirical asset pricing

 

Academic Appointments

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• Associate Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 2022 - Present

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, 2018 - 2022

• Assistant Professor of Finance, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, 2014 - 2018

 

Other Affiliations

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• Member, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Household Finance RPN, 2023 - Present

• Research Fellow, Network for Studies on Pension, Aging and Retirement (Netspar), 2015 - Present

• Guest Researcher, Deutsche Bundesbank, 2010 - Present

• Network Associate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2015 - 2023

• Associate Member, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), 2014 - 2018

• External Expert, Project Group on Big Data, Deutsche Bundesbank, 2015 - 2017

• Dissertation Intern, Sveriges Riksbank, 2011

 

Education

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•  Goethe University Frankfurt, 2009 - 2014

- Ph.D. in Finance and DFG Research Fellow

- Dissertation: "Essays on Individual Financial Behavior", summa cum Laude

• Goethe University Frankfurt, 2005 - 2009

- Diploma in Business Economics

- Concentrations: Finance, Macroeconomics

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Publications

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• "Shattered Housing", (with Jonas Happel, Larissa Schaefer, and Selale Tuzel), 2024, Journal of Financial Economics, 156.

  • Editor's Choice article

• "Do Robots Increase Wealth Dispersion?",  (with Francisco Gomes and Thomas Jansson), 2024, Review of Financial Studies 37, 119-160.

• "Do the Rich Gamble in the Stock Market? Low Risk Anomalies and Wealthy Households, (with Turan G. Bali, Doruk Gunaydin, and Thomas Jansson), 2023, Journal of Financial Economics 150(2).

• "Financial Literacy Externalities" (with Michael Haliassos and Thomas Jansson), 2020, Review of Financial Studies 33, 950-989.

  • Winner of the 2021 RFS Hillcrest Prize for Best Paper in Behavioral Finance

• "Is Proprietary Trading Detrimental to Retail Investors?" (with Falko Fecht and Andreas Hackethal), 2018, Journal of Finance 73, 1323-1361.

• "Incompatible European Partners? Cultural Predispositions and Household Financial Behavior" (with Michael Haliassos and Thomas Jansson), 2017, Management Science 63, 3780-808.

 

Research Papers

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• "Business Education and Portfolio Returns", 2025, (with Adam Altmejd and Thomas Jansson)

• "Liquidity Support in Financial Institutions", (Falko Fecht, Egemen Genc, Patrick Weber), revise and resubmit at Management Science

• "Wealth Inequality: Opportunity for Me or for Others?", (Michael Haliassos, Thomas Jansson), revise and resubmit at Journal of Finance

• "Can Facebook Predict Stock Market Activity?", 2013

• "Financial Advice: An Improvement for Worse?", 2013

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