Arzu Ozoguz

Arzu Ozoguz is a visiting assistant professor of finance at the Cox School. She conducts research in the areas of investments, corporate finance and information economics. Her work focuses on how the information environment in financial markets affects the dynamics of asset prices and the cross-section of stock returns. More recently, she has focused on the interaction between the information in stock prices and firms’ real investment decisions.

She has received Best Paper Awards from the Western Finance Association and the Financial Management Association, and her research has been published in several journals, including the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to joining Cox, she was a faculty member at the business schools of Rice University in Houston, the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD from INSEAD in France, has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin College, and received her MBA from Koc University at Istanbul. Prior to her PhD studies, Ozoguz worked as a research analyst at an investment bank in Istanbul, Turkey.