Süleyman Başak is a financial economist

Economist

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 of Turkish Cypriot origin. He is currently Professor at the Institute of Finance and Accounting of the London Business School

London Business School

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, an MBA-granting part of the University of London

University of London

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 and has previously taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

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 until June 30, 2000, where he received the David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1997, and an honourable mention in 1998 and 1999 for the Geewax, Terker Prize for Investment Research.

Başak received his B.S. degree in Civil engineering from University College London

University College London

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 and a Master's degree in the same subject from Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

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, This was followed by a M.S. and Ph.D. at in Financial economics from Carnegie Mellon. His dissertation won him the Alexander Henderson Award

Alexander Henderson Award

The Alexander Henderson Award is presented to the student at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University who displays the best work in the field of economic theory. A large proportion of the winners of the award has later made contributions to economics that have changed the...

 for excellence in economics, an award also won by Nobel Laureates Oliver Williamson, Dale Mortensen, Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, and a William Larimer Mellon Fellowship. He holds research grants from the Economic & Social Research Council, U.K., and the Q-Group, Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, U.S.

He is Associate Editor of the journals Management Science and Review of Finance.

Publications

Başak has published over 17 peer-reviewed papers. His most cited, both dealing with financial economics, are

• Basak S., Shapiro A., 'Value-at-risk-based risk management: Optimal policies and asset prices'. Review of Financial Studies
  Review of Financial Studies
  The Review of Financial Studies is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies. It was established following discussions at the 1986 Western Finance Association meetings, and the first issue was published in 1988...
  
  , 14:371–405. Cited by: 53
• Basak S., Cuoco D., 'An equilibrium model with restricted stock market participation'. Review of Financial Studies
  Review of Financial Studies
  The Review of Financial Studies is an academic journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Financial Studies. It was established following discussions at the 1986 Western Finance Association meetings, and the first issue was published in 1988...
  
  , 11:309–341. Cited by: 44

External links

• Personal homepage and CV