Özyeğin University, Çekmeköy Campus Nişantepe District, Orman Street, 34794 Çekmeköy - İSTANBUL

Phone : +90 (216) 564 90 00

Fax : +90 (216) 564 99 99

E-mail: info@ozyegin.edu.tr

Ümit
Yılmaz

Assistant Professor


Doctorate

Swiss Finance Institute & USI, Lugano, Switzerland 2014-2020

Master's

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey 2012-2014

Bachelor's

Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey 2007-2012



Research Areas

Corporate Finance, Banking, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Credit Risk


Research

Publications

  • Foreign Acquisition and Credit Risk: Evidence from the U.S. CDS Market, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming

Book Chapters

  • What You See Is What You Get But Do Investors Reward Good Corporate Governance When They See It? (with Alberto Plazzi and Walter Torous), Behavioral Finance: A Novel Approach, 2021, 73-98.

Working Papers

  • Why Do Firms Borrow from Foreign Banks? 
  • Does Corporate Governance Matter? Evidence from the AGR Governance Rating (with Alberto Plazzi and Walter Torous)