Mehmet E. Akbulut     

Assistant Professor of Finance

 

             Mehmet Akbulut is an assistant professor of finance in the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, at the California State University Fullerton. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Marshall School of Business, at the University of Southern California. His research focuses on corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, executive compensation and managerial insider trading.

 

 

 

Selected Works:

 

New! Do Overvaluation-driven Stock Acquisitions Really Benefit Acquirer Shareholders?, 2009

 

 

“50+ Years of Diversification Announcements,” (with John G. Matsusaka), 2009,

Forthcoming, The Financial Review

 

“Managerial Insider Trading and Opportunism,” August 2006

 

“Market Misvaluation and Merger Activity: What do Managers’ Insider Trades Tell Us?”, 2006

 

“Market Misvaluation and Merger Activity: Evidence From Managerial Insider Trading”, 2005

 

“The Waning of Corporate Diversification”, (with John G. Matsusaka), May 2005

 

 

Conference and Seminar Presentations:

 

Financial Management Association (FMA) 2005, 2006, 2007

California Corporate Finance Conference, Loyola Marymount University, 2006, 2007, 2008

European Financial Management Association (EFMA) Vienna Meetings, June 2007

 

 

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