Egemen Genc

Education

• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (2003 — 2005)
• Bachelor's degree Bilkent Üniversitesi (1996 — 2000)
• Samsun Anadolu Lisesi

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Finance University of Illinois at Chicago (2019)
• Associate Professor of Finance Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (2017 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor of Finance RSM Erasmus University (2012 — 2017)
• Ph.D in Finance University of Oregon (2010 — 2012)
• Ph.D. in Finance Texas A&M University (2007 — 2010)
• Msc Programme Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg (2005 — 2007)

Selected Publications

• “Going for GOLD: An Analysis of Morningstar Analyst Ratings” (with Will Armstrong and Marno Verbeek), Management Science, Vol. 65, December 2017, 1949-2443.
• “Playing Favorites: Conflicts of Interest in Mutual Fund Management” (with Diane Del Guercio and Hai Tran), Journal of Financial Economics, Vol 128, June 2018, 536-557.
• “Do Mutual Fund Investors Overweight the Probability of Extreme Payoffs in the Return Distribution?” (with Ferhat Akbas), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 55, February 2020, 223-261.

Notable Honors

• 2019, Conference Best Paper Award in Empirical, Southern Finance Financial Management Association Annual Meeting
• 2016, Conference Best Paper Award in Investments, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting
• 2015, Conference Best Paper Award, Academy of Financial Services Conference