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Faculty Profile
Haluk Ünal is a Professor of
Finance, at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business, University
of Maryland, Special Advisor to
the Center for Financial
Research of the FDIC, and Senior
Fellow at the Wharton Financial
Institutions Center. He is also
the Managing Editor of the
Journal of Financial Services
Research.
Mr. Ünal holds doctorates in
finance from The Ohio State
University and in economics from
Istanbul University, where he did
his undergraduate work as well. Mr.
Ünal also earned an MS degree in
accounting from Ohio State. He
previously taught at Ohio State and
The Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania. He teaches
corporate finance, management of
financial institutions, and fixed
income securities courses.
His current research focuses on
executive compensation, corporate
bonds, bank mergers, pricing default
risk, risk management, and bank
resolution costs. He is published in
the Journal of Finance, Journal
of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Financial
Services Research, Journal of Money
Credit and Banking, Journal of
Banking and Finance, Review of
Derivatives Research, Journal of
Financial Economics, and
Review of Financial Studies.
Mr. Ünal has been a consultant to
the World Bank, Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, and the
Department of Justice. He is also on
the academic council of Standard and
Poor’s. Internationally, he
delivered invited lectures in
Portugal, China, Italy, Mexico,
Peru, Poland, Spain, Switzerland,
and Turkey. He also held executive
training for Bank of Beijing, China
Merchants Bank, Banco Santander,
Minsheng Bank, Fannie Mae, Hughes
Network Systems, Oracle,
PENN-Securities Association of
China, SAIC, Wharton’s International
Housing and EMTM programs.
Mr. Ünal has been the President
of the Turkish-American Scientist
and Scholars Association (TASSA)
since 2010.
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