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Riza Demirer
Assistant Professor

Member of the Faculty Since: 2003

Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2003
M.S., Lancaster University, 1995
B.S., Bogazici University, 1994

 

 


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Recent Publications

 

“Influence Diagrams for Real Options Valuation: Valuing Agouron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,” with John M. Charnes and Dave Kellogg, Journal of Finance Case Research, forthcoming.

“Bayesian Networks: A Decision Tool to Improve Portfolio Risk Analysis,” with Catherine Shenoy and Ron Mau, Journal of Applied Finance, forthcoming.

“Does Herding Behavior Exist in Chinese Stock Markets?” with Ali M. Kutan, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 16 123-142, 2006.

“Sequential Valuation Networks for Asymmetric Decision Problems,” with P. P. Shenoy, European Journal of Operational Research 169, No. 1, 286-309, 2006

“Correlation and return dispersion dynamics in Chinese markets,” with D. Lien, International Review of Financial Analysis 14, No. 4, 477-491, 2005.

“Subset Selection in Multiple Linear Regression: A New Mathematical Programming Approach,” with Burak Eksioglu and Ismail Capar, Computers & Industrial Engineering 49, No. 1, 155-167, 2005.

“Does Herding Behavior Exist in Chinese Stock Markets?” (with Ali Kutan) Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, forthcoming.

"Sequential Valuation Networks for Asymmetric Decision Problems," with Prakash P. Shenoy, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.

"Firm-level Return Dispersion and Correlation Asymmetry Dynamics in Chinese
Markets," with D. Lien, International Review of Financial Analysis,
forthcoming.

"Comparisons of Short and Long Hedge Performance: The Case of Taiwan,” (with Donald Lien and David Shaffer) Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Vol. 15, No. 1 (February), 2005.

"Firm-level return dispersion and correlation asymmetry: Challenges for portfolio diversification," (with Donald Lien), Applied Financial Economics, Vol. 14, pg. 447- 456, 2004.

“Downside Risk for Short and Long Hedgers” International Review of Economics and Finance 12, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 25-44, (with D. Lien).

“An Investigation of the Day-of-the-Week Effect on Stock Returns in Turkey,” Emerging Markets Finance and Trade 38, No. 6 (Nov-Dec 2002), 47-77 (with M.B. Karan).

“Sequential Valuation Networks: A New Technique for Asymmetric Decision Problems,” Lecture Series in Artificial Intelligence 2143, S. Benferhat, P. Besnard (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2001, 252-265 (with P.P Shenoy).

 

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Prior to joining the SIUE faculty, Dr. Demirer taught Corporate Finance and Investments at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Demirer’s research interests include derivatives and risk management, investments, valuation, and decision theory. His recent work focuses on the use of futures contracts to hedge different measures of financial risks and the implications of asymmetric moments on hedge performances. His dissertation work was among the forty papers selected for presentation at the Financial Management Association’s Doctoral Consortium in 2002. He has recently published in Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Applied Financial Economics, International Review of Economics and Finance, Emerging Markets Trade and Finance, and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. He has also served as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation Decision, Risk, and Management Science – Economics program.

Dr. Demirer is a member of American Finance Association (AFA), Financial Management Association (FMA), Midwest Finance Association (MFA), and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

 


 

 


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