TURAN G. BALI

David Krell Chair Professor of Finance

Department of Economics and Finance
Zicklin School of Business
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue, Box B10-225 
New York, NY 10010

Room: 10-282
Phone: (646) 312-3506
Fax :   (646) 312-3451
E-mail:Turan_Bali@baruch.cuny.edu

 

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Publications (by date)

 

 

The intertemporal relation between expected returns and risk, Journal of Financial Economics, January 2008, 87(1), 101-131.

 

Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter? Journal of Finance, April 2005, 60(2), 905-929 (with Nusret Cakici, Xuemin Yan, and Zhe Zhang).

 

An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Interest Rate Volatility: Pricing Implications for Interest Rate Options, Management Science, February 2007, 53(2), 323-339.

 

An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Volatility and Value at Risk, Journal of Business, January 2003, 76(1), 83-108.

 

Testing the Empirical Performance of Stochastic Volatility Models of the Short Term Interest Rate, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, June 2000, 35(2), 191-215.

 

Idiosyncratic Volatility and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2008, 43(1), 29-58 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

Aggregate Earnings, Firm-Level Earnings, and Expected Stock Returns,       Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Hassan Tehranian).

 

Is There an Intertemporal Relation Between Downside Risk and Expected Returns? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Haim Levy).

 

A Conditional Extreme Value Volatility Estimator Based on High-Frequency Returns, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, February 2007, 31(2), 361-397 (with David Weinbaum).

 

A Generalized Extreme Value Approach to Financial Risk Measurement, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, October 2007, 39(7), 1611-1647.

 

Risk Measurement Performance of Alternative Distribution Functions, Journal of Risk and Insurance, June 2008, 75(2), 411-437 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

Modeling the Dynamics of Interest Rate Volatility with Skewed Fat-Tailed Distributions, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 151-178.

 

A Conditional-SGT-VaR Approach with Alternative GARCH Models, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 241-267 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

 

2008--

[46]  The intertemporal relation between expected returns and risk, Journal of Financial Economics, January 2008, 87(1), 101-131.

 

[45]  Idiosyncratic Volatility and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2008, 43(1), 29-58 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

[44]  Aggregate Earnings, Firm-Level Earnings, and Expected Stock Returns, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Hassan Tehranian).

 

[43]  Is There an Intertemporal Relation Between Downside Risk and Expected Returns? Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Haim Levy).

 

[42]  Risk Measurement Performance of Alternative Distribution Functions, Journal of Risk and Insurance, June 2008, 75(2), 411-437 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

[41]  A Model-Independent Measure of Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk, Journal of Empirical Finance, forthcoming (with Nusret Cakici and Haim Levy).

 

[40]  The Role of Autoregressive Conditional Skewness and Kurtosis in the Estimation of Conditional VaR, Journal of Banking and Finance, February 2008, 32(2), 269-282 (with Hengyong Mo and Yi Tang).

 

[39]  Nonlinear Mean Reversion in Stock Prices, Journal of Banking and Finance, May 2008, 32(5), 767-782 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas and Haim Levy).

 

[38]  The Conditional Beta and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns, Financial Management, forthcoming (with Nusret Cakici and Yi Tang).

 

[37]  Testing Mean Reversion in Financial Market Volatility: Evidence from S&P 500 Index Futures, Journal of Futures Markets, January 2008, 28(1), 1-33 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas).

 

[36]  Small Sample Bias in Panel Data, Finance Letters, forthcoming (with K. Ozgur Demirtas).

 

[35]  Predictability of Risk Measures in International Stock Markets, Stock Market Volatility, February 2009, (with K. Ozgur Demirtas), Edited by Greg N. Gregoriou, Publisher: Chapman Hall CRC/Taylor and Francis, London, UK.

 

 

2007

[34]  An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Interest Rate Volatility: Pricing Implications for Interest Rate Options, Management Science, February 2007, 53(2), 323-339.

 

[33]  A Conditional Extreme Value Volatility Estimator Based on High-Frequency Returns, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, February 2007, 31(2), 361-397 (with David Weinbaum).

 

[32]  A Generalized Extreme Value Approach to Financial Risk Measurement, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, October 2007, 39(7), 1611-1647.

 

[31]  Modeling the Dynamics of Interest Rate Volatility with Skewed Fat-Tailed Distributions, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 151-178.

 

[30]  A Conditional-SGT-VaR Approach with Alternative GARCH Models, Annals of Operations Research, April 2007, 151(1), 241-267 (with Panayiotis Theodossiou).

 

[29]  Cyclicality in Catastrophic and Operational Risk Measurements, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2007, 31(4), 1191-1235 (with Linda Allen).

 

[28]  Value at Risk and the Cross-Section of Hedge Fund Returns, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2007, 31(4), 1135-1166 (with Bing Liang and Suleyman Gokcan).

 

[27]  A New Look at Hedging with Derivatives: Will Firms Reduce Market Risk Exposure? Journal of Futures Markets, November 2007, 27(11), 1053-1083 (with Susan Hume and Terrence Martell).

 

[26]  The Relativity of Volatility, The Value-at-Risk Reference April 2007, pp. 429-439 (with Salih N. Neftci) Edited by Jon Danielsson, Risk Books.

 

 

2006

[25]  Is There a Risk-Return Tradeoff? Evidence from High-Frequency Data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, December 2006, 21(8), 1169-1198 (with Lin Peng).

 

[24]  Inflation Shoe Leather Costs and Average Inflation Rates Across Countries, Journal of International Money and Finance, November 2006, 25(7), 1103-1129 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

[23]  A Comprehensive Analysis of the Short-Term Interest Rate Dynamics, Journal of Banking and Finance, April 2006, 30(4)1269-1290 (with Liuren Wu).

 

[22]  Peer Pressure: Industry Group Impacts on Stock Valuation Precision and Contrarian Strategy Performance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Spring 2006, 32(3), 80-92 (with K. Ozgur Demirtas, Armen Hovakimian, and John Merrick).

 

[21]  Aggregate Idiosyncratic Risk and Market Returns, Journal of Investment Management, 4th Quarter 2006, 4(4), 4-14 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

 

2005

[20]  Does Idiosyncratic Risk Really Matter? Journal of Finance, April 2005, 60(2), 905-929 (with Nusret Cakici, Xuemin Yan, and Zhe Zhang).

 

[19]  The Empirical Performance of Alternative Extreme-Value Volatility Estimators, Journal of Futures Markets, September 2005, 25(9), 873-892. (with David Weinbaum).

 

 

2004

[18]  Cyclicality in the Catastrophic Risk of Financial Institutions, Operational Risk Modelling and Analysis: Theory and Practice, August 2004, pp. 209-246 (with Linda Allen and Yi Tang) Edited by Marcelo Cruz, Risk Books.

 

[17]  Alternative Approaches to Estimating VaR for Hedge Fund Portfolios, Intelligent Hedge Fund Investing April 2004, pp. 253-277 (with Suleyman Gokcan) Edited by Barry Schachter, Risk Books.

 

[16]  Value at Risk and Expected Stock Returns, Financial Analysts Journal, March 2004, 60(2), 57-73 (with Nusret Cakici).

 

 

2003

[15]  Disturbing Extremal Behavior of Spot Rate Dynamics, Journal of Empirical Finance, September 2003, 10(4), 455-477 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[14]  The Generalized Extreme Value Distribution, Economics Letters, June 2003, 79(3), 423-427.

 

[13]  Modeling the Stochastic Behavior of Short Term Interest Rates: Pricing Implications for Discount Bonds, Journal of Banking and Finance, February 2003, 27(2), 201-228.

 

[12]  An Extreme Value Approach to Estimating Volatility and Value at Risk Journal of Business, January 2003, 76(1), 83-108.

 

 

2002

[11]  Excessive Variation in Risk Factor Correlations and Volatilities, Journal of Futures Markets, December 2002, 22(12), 1119-1146 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[10]  On the Efficiency of Monetary Policy Rules with Flexible Prices and Rational Expectations, Journal of Economics and Business, December 2002, 54(6), 615-631 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

 

2001

[9]  The Relativity of Volatility, Risk, April 2001, 14(4), 91-94  (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

[8]  Estimating the Term Structure of Interest Rate Volatility in Extreme Values, Journal of Fixed Income, March 2001, 10(4), 7-14 (with Salih N. Neftci).

 

 

2000

[7]  Empirical Estimates of Inflation Tax Laffer Surfaces: A 30 Country Study, Journal of Development Economics, December 2000, 63(2), 529-546 (with Thom B. Thurston).

 

[6]  Modeling the Conditional Mean and Variance of the Short Rate Using Diffusion, GARCH, and Moving Average Models, Journal of Futures Markets, September 2000, 20(8), 717-751.

 

[5]  Testing the Empirical Performance of Stochastic Volatility Models of the Short Term Interest Rate, Journal of Financial and Quatitative Analysis, June 2000, 35(2), 191-215.

 

[4]  U.S. Money Demand and the Welfare Cost of Inflation in a Currency-Deposit Model, Journal of Economics and Business, June 2000, 52(3), 233-258.

 

[3]  Pricing Eurodollar Futures Options Using the BDT Term Structure Model: The Effect of Yield Curve Smoothing, Journal of Futures Markets, March 2000, 20(3), 293-306 (with Ahmet K. Karagozoglu).

 

 

1999

[2]  An Empirical Comparison of Continuous Time Models of the Short Term Interest Rate, Journal of Futures Markets, October 1999, 19(7), 777-798.

 

[1]  Implementation of the BDT Model with Different Volatility Estimators: Applications to Eurodollar Futures Options, Journal of Fixed Income, March 1999, 8(4), 24-34 (with Ahmet K. Karagozoglu).

 

 

 

Professional Activities

 

 

 

Associate Editor:  Journal of Banking and Finance: 2008-Present

 

                          Journal of Futures Markets: 2007-Present

 

                                Journal of Risk: 2005-Present

 

 

Founding Member:  Society for Financial Econometrics: 2008-Present

 

 

Referee:  American Economic Review, Annals of Operations Research, Economic Inquiry, European Financial Management, European Journal of Finance, European Journal of Operational Research, Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Management, International Review of Economics and Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Econometrics, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Management Science, Multinational Finance Journal, National Science Foundation, Quantitative Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada.