Süleyman Başak

Süleyman Başak is a financial economist of Turkish Cypriot origin. He is currently Associate Professor at the Institute of Finance and Accounting of the London Business School, a MBA-granting part of the University of London and has previously taught at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania until June 30, 2000,^[1] where he received the David W. Hauck Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1997,^[2]^[3] and an honourable mention in 1998 and 1999 for the Geewax, Terker Prize for Investment Research.^[4]

Başak received his B.S. degree in Civil engineering from University College of London and a Master's degree in the same subject from Carnegie Mellon University, This was followed by a M.S. and Ph.D. at in Financial economics from Carnegie Mellon. He has been the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, and a William Larimer Mellon Fellowship. He holds research grants from the Economic & Social Research Council, U.K., and the Q-Group, Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, U.S.^[5]

He is Associate Editor of the journals Management Science^{ISSN 0025-1909} and Review of Finance^{ISSN 1572-3097}.^[5]

[edit] Publications

Başek has published over 17 peer-reviewed papers. His most cited, both dealing with financial economics, are

Basak S., Shapiro A., 'Value-at-risk-based risk management: Optimal policies and asset prices'. Review of Financial Studies, 14:371–405. Cited by: 53
Basak S., Cuoco D., 'An equilibrium model with restricted stock market participation'. Review of Financial Studies, 11:309–341. Cited by: 44