Professor Dogan Tirtiroglu

Telephone	+61 8 8303 8007
Position	Chair in Banking
Email	dogan.tirtiroglu@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 4368
Building	10 Pulteney Street
Floor/Room	12 42
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Business School

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Biography/ Background

I am a Professor of Finance and the Chair of Banking at the Business School, the University of Adelaide since June 1, 2008. I earned my Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Connecticut in 1991 and held various academic posts at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in USA, Salisbury University in USA, Concordia University in Canada, and Cambridge University in UK between 1990 and 2008. I am a fellow of the Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute in USA and an affiliated researcher of the Financial Mathematics group of the Institute of Applied Mathematics at the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.

I have wide research interests, mainly in banking, corporate finance and real estate finance. I have several papers under review or in progress. My research has been published in the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Financial Management, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Advances in Financial Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Literature, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Journal of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics, Journal of Property Finance, Appraisal Journal, Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, and Studies in Economics and Finance.

Both graduate (MBA, MSc and MPhil) and undergraduate level courses comprise of my teaching portfolio. They include Treasury and Risk Management (MComm), Fixed Income (MSc), Investment Theory (MSc), Corporate Finance (MBA, MSc and undergraduate), Financial Management (undergraduate and MBA), Real Estate Investments and Finance (MBA, MPhil and undergraduate), and Debt Financing and Securitisation (MPhil).

I have supervised the theses of many MBA and M.Sc. (Concordia) and MPhil (Cambridge) students and enjoy co-authoring papers with my current and former graduate students. I have presented and discussed numerous papers at various meetings of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the Cambridge-Maastricht Symposium on Real Estate Finance and Investments, the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Southern Finance Association, TIMS/ORSA, the Decision Sciences Institute, the German Finance Association, the Multinational Finance Society, the European Real Estate Society, the American Real Estate Society and the French Finance Association.

I enjoy travelling, well-brewed tea, red wine, soccer, swimming and reading.

Publications

(Sample publications - in a yearly order):

Capital Structure Choice in a Nascent Market: Empirical Evidence from Listed Chinese Firms, Financial Management, 2008, (with H.Bhabra and T.Liu).

Inflation-Hedging Properties of Turkish REITs, Applied Economics, 2008, (with I.Erol).

The External Monitoring Bodiesâ�^TM View of the Board Independence in the New Public Family Firms, Advances in Financial Economics, 2008, 12, 137-164, (with I.Paeglis).

Deregulation, Intensity of Competition, Industry Evolution and the Productivity Growth of US Commercial Banks, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, April 2005, 37:2, 339-360, (with K.Daniels and E.Tirtiroglu).

Political Uncertainty and Asset Valuation: Evidence from Business Relocations in Canada, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2004, 28, 2237-2258, (with H.Bhabra and U.Lel).

Quality Assurance Role of Seller Financing: Evidence from Second Mortgages, Journal of Housing Economics, Sept. 2004, 13:3, 208-225, (with D.Laband).

Bank Efficiency in Croatia: A Stochastic-Frontier Analysis, Journal of Comparative Economics, 1998, 26, 282-300, (with E.Kraft).

Valuation Process and Market Efficiency for US Treasury Bonds, Financial Management, Winter 1997, 26:4, 74-80, (with L.Klein).

Temporal and Spatial Information Diffusion in Real Estate Price Changes and Variances, Real Estate Economics, 1997, 25:4, 539-565, (with W. Dolde).

Imperfect Information and Investor Inferences from Housing Price Dynamics, Real Estate Economics, 1995, 23, 239-269, (with J.Clapp and W.Dolde).

Positive Feedback Trading and Diffusion of Asset Price Changes: Evidence from Housing Transactions, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 1994, 24:3, 337-355, (with J.Clapp).

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 26 May 2009

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