İlkay Şendeniz Yüncü is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Business Administration. Prior to joining METU, she worked as an Assistant Professor of Finance at IÉSEG School of Management and MEF University, and as a lecturer at Tilburg University and Bilkent University. Dr. Şendeniz Yüncü conducted postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and Tilburg University. She received her BSc and MSc degrees from the Department of Civil Engineering at METU. She holds an MBA from METU and a PhD in Finance from Bilkent University. Her research focuses on banking, financial markets, financial economics, and the finance-growth nexus. She has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Finance Research Letters, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Applied Economics, and in edited volumes published by World Scientific Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer. She teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has been the thesis supervisor for several PhD and Masters students.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

Office: H102

E-mail: sendeniz at metu.edu.tr

Phone: +90(312)210-2050

Fax: +90(312)210-7962

Mailing Address: Department of Business Administration, Middle East Technical University 06800 Ankara – TURKEY

Research Interests

Banking

Financial Institutions

Financial Macroeconomics

Education

BSc in Civil Engineering, METU, 1995

MBA in Business Administration, METU, 1998

MSc in Civil Engineering, METU, 1999

PhD in Finance, Bilkent University, 2007

Post-doc in Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2008 

Post-doc in School of Economics and Managemet, Tilburg University, 2008

Courses Taught

BA 4811 – Corporate Finance

BA 4837 – Financial Macroeconomics

BA 4840 – Banking and Financial Intermediation

BA 4841 – International Financial Integration

BA 6801 – Theory of Finance 

BA 6803 – Seminar in Financial Institutions

BA 6804 – Empirical Methods in Finance

BAS 381 – Principles of Finance

BAS 411 – Corporate Finance