Dr Ufuk Gucbilmez
- Senior Lecturer in Finance (Accounting & Finance)
telephone:
01413305535
email:
Ufuk.Gucbilmez@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Business School, Room 424, 2 Discovery Place, Glasgow, G11 6EY
Biography
Ufuk joined the Adam Smith Business School as Senior Lecturer in Finance in February 2020. He previously held posts at the University of Bath School of Management and University of Edinburgh Business School. He holds a PhD in Finance from the Lancaster University Management School.
Research interests
Ufuk is a member of the School's Finance research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Corporate finance (initial public offerings, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, real options)
- Behavioural finance (disposition effect, reinforcement learning, realisation utility)
Supervision
Supervisory interests
Ufuk is looking to supervise PhD theses in the broad areas of corporate finance and behavioural/experimental finance.
Specific topics of interest
Corporate finance:
- IPO cycles and hot markets.
- IPO mechanisms (book-building, auction).
- IPO underwriting and analyst coverage.
Behavioural/experimental finance:
- The disposition effect
- Investor learning models
- Realisation utility models
- Gong, Xiaohan
IPO book building to the spillover effect of IPO on on the cost of debt - Wei, Xiaoqin
CEO overconfidence and IPO survival - Yang, An
The Impact of Social Media on Initial Coin Offering Based on - Yu, Xiaoqi
Investor Sentiment, Institutional Ownership, and Stock Price Efficiency
Teaching
Ufuk has substantial teaching experience in the areas of corporate finance and investments. He has taught courses for Executive MBAs as well as for postgraduate students and undergraduate students.
Past teaching experience
Executive MBA
- Understanding financial principles
Postgraduate level
- Fundamentals of corporate finance (elective for MSc Management suite)
- Investment theory (core for MSc Finance and Investment)
Undergraduate level
- Investment banking (honours elective)
- Investment and trading (honours elective)
- Investment and securities markets (honours elective)
- Principles of finance (2nd year)
- Introduction to corporate finance (2nd year)
Additional information
Ufuk is an external examiner at:
- Aston Business School
- University of Plymouth
He has served on the review committees of:
- Eastern Finance Association Annual Meeting
- Financial Management Association European Conference
- INFINITI Conference on International Finance
- INFINITI Conference on International Finance Asia-Pacific
- World Finance & Banking Symposium
- World Finance Conference
Selected media quotes and commentary
- STAR Market offers opportunities for investment into China’s tech industries, World Finance, Autumn 2019, pp. 112-113
- The reg A+ route to going public: Complement or substitute?, Finance Monthly, September 2017, pp. 32-33
- Regulatory interference weakens the link between IPO activity and market conditions, Global Banking & Finance Review Magazine, Issue 2, pp. 124-125
- The IPO market has sprung back into life with a wealth of businesses listing on the London Stock Exchange, EQ Magazine, Winter 2015, pp. 32-34
- Alibaba’s IPO signals a fresh appetite for Chinese technology, The Conversation, May 8, 2014
- China’s Nasdaq fails to get off the ground as venture capitalists look to the US, The Conversation, March 13, 2014