Ahmet Karagozoglu
Professor of Finance
Degrees
PHD, 1999, CUNY Baruch Coll; MBA, 1994, Univ Wisc Oshkosh; BS, 1992, Bogazici UnivBio
Dr. Karagozoglu received a B.S. in industrial engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He received an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in finance at Baruch College of The City University of New York, where he received the Oscar Lasdon Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation.
Prior to coming to Hofstra University, Dr. Karagozoglu taught full time at Baruch College at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Recently he taught an international financial management course in the Hofstra-Erasmus summer program at Erasmus University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
Dr. Karagozoglu received the Frank G. Zarb School of Business Dean's Research Award for 2000. His primary research interests are in the areas of futures markets, option pricing, market microstructure, interest rate derivatives and risk management. His work has been published in the Journal of Futures Markets, the Financial Review and the Journal of Fixed Income. He has presented papers at annual conferences of the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association and the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has also presented his research at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was invited to participate in the Chicago Board of Trade Research Seminar.
Dr. Karagozoglu is a member of the American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Multinational Finance Society, the International Association of Financial Engineers and the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
Teaching Interests
Futures Markets, Financial Analysis and Markets, and Options Markets at the MBA level; Financial Modeling, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Introduction to Finance, Financial Markets and Institutions, and Futures and Options Markets at the undergraduate level.Research Interests
Dr. Karagozoglu's primary research interests are in the area of credit risk, futures markets, option pricing, market microstructure, interest rate derivatives and risk management. His work has been published in the Journal of Futures Markets, the Financial Review, the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Fixed Income, the Review of Futures Markets, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. He has presented papers at the annual conferences of the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Multinational Finance Society, and the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has also presented his research at the the Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was invited to participate Chicago Board of Trade Research Seminar.Recent Courses Taught
| Course | Title | Level |
|---|---|---|
| FIN 135 | OPTIONS & FUTURES | Undergraduate |
| FIN 151 | READINGS IN FINANCE | Undergraduate |
| FIN 163 | FINANCIAL MODELING | Undergraduate |
| FIN 185 | INTERNSHIP IN FINANCE | Undergraduate |
| FIN 190 | HONORS ESSAY | Undergraduate |
| FIN 235 | ADV STATISTCL MODELING IN FIN | Graduate |
| FIN 265 | DERIVATIVES MARKETS | Graduate |
| FIN 266 | ADV DERIVATIVES MARKETS | Graduate |
| FIN 280 | TOPICS IN MATHEMATICAL FINANCE | Graduate |
| FIN 309 | RESEARCH SEM IN FIN | Graduate |
| FIN 315 | FINANCIAL MODELING | Graduate |
| FIN 329 | GRADUATE BASIC INTERNSHIP | Graduate |
| FIN 330 | GRADUATE INTERNSHIP | Graduate |
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