Associate Professor of Finance
Dr. Kosedag joined Berry College in August 2005. He has previously held positions at Sabanci University, Istanbul/Turkey, where he taught both in Professional & Executive MBA and undergraduate programs, and at Oklahoma State University. His teaching and research interest centers around corporate finance in general. He currently teaches Principles of Finance, Intermediate Corporate Finance, and Models & Cases in Managerial Finance and MBA -Corporate Finance classes at Berry College. Dr. Kosedag has published several peer reviewed articles in academic journals including Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Review of Financial Economics, Economic Modelling, International Review of Financial Analysis and Managerial Finance.
Education
- Ph.D., Finance, Minor: Economics, Louisiana State University
- M.S., Finance, Louisiana State University
- B.S., Istanbul University, Turkey
Teaching Interests
- Corporate Finance
- Principles of Finance
- Financial Markets and Institutions
- International Finance
- Investments
Research Interests
- Dividend Policy
- Corporate Restructuring and Control
- Corporate Governance
- Investments
- International Finance
Selected Publications
- 'Testing for Convergence in Bank Efficiency: A Cross-Country Analysis,' with Meltem Denizel and Oznur Ozdemir, Service Industries Journal, Vol. 31 (9), 2011 1533-1547.
- 'Reverse-LBOs, Re-LBOs, and the Informational Asymmetry Hypothesis of LBO Transactions,' with JinHu Qian and Jamshid Mehran, Managerial Finance, Vol. 35 (8), 2009, 716-728.
- 'Do Dividend Clienteles Explain Price Reactions to Dividend Changes? ' with Jinhu Qian, The International Journal of Business and Finance Research, Vol. 3 (1), 2009, 47-58.
- 'Dividends and Taxes, Redux, ...Again,' With George Frankfurter and Bob Wood, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Vol. 9 (1), 2008, 30-42.
- 'Gold or Pyrite: The Importance of Information to the Professional Investor,' with Bob G. Wood and Mark Stephens, Journal of Investing, Vol. 16 (4) Winter 2007, 190-197.
- 'Transparency & Disclosure Scores and Their Determinants in the Istanbul Stock Exchange,' with Mine Aksu, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 14 (4), 2006, 275-294.
- 'The Perception of Dividends by Professional Investors,' with Kevin Chiang, George M. Frankfurter, and Bob G. Wood, Jr., Managerial Finance, Vol. 32 (1), 2006, 60-81.
- 'Exploratory Analyses of Dividend Re-Investment Plans and Some comparison,' with Kevin Chiang and George M. Frankfurter, International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 14 (5), 2005, 570-586.
- 'Repeated LBOs: The case of Multiple LBO Transactions,' with David Michayluk, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 43 (1&2), 2004, 111-122.
- 'A Comparative Analysis of Perception of Dividends by Managers,' with George m. Frankfurter et al., Research in International Business and Finance, Vol. 18 (1), 2004, 73-112.
- 'The Role of Venture Capitalists in Going Private Transactions,' in The Growth of Venture Capital: A Cross-Cultural comparison, edited by Dilek Cetindamar, Praeger publishing, Westport, CT, 2003, 55-71.
- 'The Perception of Dividends by Management,' with George M. Frankfurter, Hartmut Schmidt and Mihail Topalov, The Journal of Psychology and Financial Markets (currently The Journal of Behavioral Finance), Vol. 3 (4), 2002, 202-217.