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Ozan E. Akbas

ozan e. akbas



I am a Ph.D. candidate in Finance and Economics at Warwick Business School of the University of Warwick.

My research lies at the intersection of corporate finance and asset pricing, integrating theory and empirics to examine investment behavior from multiple perspectives.

On the supply side, I use dynamic corporate finance and real options models to explore how firms make investment and capital structure decisions, with an ultimate goal of understanding how these choices are influenced by institutional demand for firm assets.

On the demand side, I study asset demand systems, leveraging quantitative tools from the empirical industrial organization literature. Particularly, I am interested in identification of model parameters in structural estimation, building asset pricing microfoundations for demand systems, and uncovering how economic forces, such as demand complementarity, shape institutional investment choices.

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  • Leverage Dynamics with Lumpy, Uncertain Investment Opportunities


  • Corporate Finance
    Postgraduate Module at Warwick Business School
    Teaching Assistant for Andrea Gamba (2024)
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
    Undergraduate Module at Warwick Business School
    Teaching Assistant for Jim Goldman (2024), Noah Lyman (2025)