Süleyman Başak (born c. 1964) is a
financial economist
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of
Turkish Cypriot
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origin. He is Professor at the Institute of Finance and Accounting of the
London Business School
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, an
MBA
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-granting part of the
University of London
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and has previously taught at the
Wharton School
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of the
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
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and a master's degree in the same subject from
Carnegie Mellon University
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, This was followed by a M.S. and Ph.D. in Financial economics from Carnegie Mellon. His dissertation won him the
Alexander Henderson Award
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The school offers degrees from the undergraduate through doct ...
for excellence in economics, an award also won by
Nobel Laureates
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Oliver Williamson
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,
Dale Mortensen
Dale Thomas Mortensen (February 2, 1939 – January 9, 2014) was an American economist and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Early life and education
Mortensen was born in Enterprise, Oregon. He received his BA in econom ...
,
Finn Kydland
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and
Edward Prescott
Edward Christian Prescott (December 26, 1940 – November 6, 2022) was an American economist. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 2004, sharing the award with Finn E. Kydland, "for their contributions to dynamic macroeconomics ...
. 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
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''
and ''
Review of Finance''
.
Selected publications
Başak has published over 17 peer-reviewed papers. His most cited, both dealing with financial economics, are
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References
External links
Personal homepagean
CV
1960s births
Living people
Academics of London Business School
Turkish Cypriot emigrants to the United Kingdom
Turkish Cypriot expatriates in the United States
British expatriates in the United States
Alumni of University College London
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania faculty
Turkish Cypriot economists
20th-century Turkish economists
Türk Maarif Koleji alumni
British economists
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