Bulent Gultekin
Regular biography
Bulent Gultekin is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, Department of Finance. His research interests include corporate finance and capital markets, financial development, and privatization. He is affiliated with the Finance Department and maintains a profile page at https://fnce.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/gultekin. His contact information includes an email address of gultekin@wharton.upenn.edu. Gultekin has contributed to academic research in areas such as capital controls, international capital market segmentation, and the arbitrage pricing theory. He has also engaged in consulting work related to privatization and economic reform for various governments and organizations.
Scholar-generated biography
Bulent Gultekin is a financial economist whose research focuses on financial economics, with an emphasis on stock market behavior, asset pricing models, and international capital markets. His work explores stock market seasonality, inflation's impact on returns, and the empirical validity of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT). Gultekin has also examined capital controls, financial development, and privatization in post-communist economies. His studies often analyze anomalies in stock returns and the role of duration and basis risk in financial markets. His research contributes to understanding the dynamics of international capital markets and the effectiveness of financial policies.