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Mehmet Umutlu

Assoc. Professor (Reader) in Finance, Edinburgh Napier University
Verified email at napier.ac.uk
Cited by 700

The degree of financial liberalization and aggregated stock-return volatility in emerging markets

M Umutlu, L Akdeniz, A Altay-Salih - Journal of banking & finance, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study, we address whether the degree of financial liberalization affects the
aggregated total volatility of stock returns by considering the time-varying nature of financial …

Where have the profits gone? Market efficiency and the disappearing equity anomalies in country and industry returns

A Zaremba, M Umutlu, A Maydybura - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2020 - Elsevier
We are the first to demonstrate the decline in the cross-sectional predictability of country and
industry returns in recent years. We examine 53 anomalies in country and industry indices …

Firm leverage and investment decisions in an emerging market

M Umutlu - Quality & Quantity, 2010 - Springer
In this study, the effect of leverage on investment is analyzed by employing panel data methods
for the Turkish non-financial firms that are quoted on İstanbul Stock Exchange. For one-…

Does idiosyncratic volatility matter at the global level?

M Umutlu - The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
I test the existence of a time-series relationship between the aggregate idiosyncratic volatility
and the market index return at the global level by introducing various global measures of …

Idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns at the global level

M Umutlu - Financial Analysts Journal, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The author investigated the existence and significance of a global cross-sectional relation
between idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns by introducing a global idiosyncratic …

Stock-return volatility and daily equity trading by investor groups in Korea

M Umutlu, MB Shackleton - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
We examine the short-run relationship between stock-return volatility and daily equity trading
by several investor groups in the Korean Stock Exchange. We also investigate whether …

The cross-section of industry equity returns and global tactical asset allocation across regions and industries

M Umutlu, P Bengitöz - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigates which index characteristics predict returns in the cross-section of
local industry indexes in six regions. The results show that geographical origin and market …

Foreign Equity Trading and Average Stock‐return Volatility

M Umutlu, L Akdeniz, A Altay‐Salih - The World Economy, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We examine whether there is a relationship between foreign equity trading and average total
volatility, measured as the value‐weighted average of stock‐return variance in the Istanbul …

Alpha momentum and alpha reversal in country and industry equity indexes

A Zaremba, M Umutlu, A Karathanasopoulos - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
Do past alphas predict future country and industry returns? Examination of equity indexes
from 51 stock markets between 1973 and 2018 allows us to demonstrate new return patterns …

Return range and the cross-section of expected index returns in international stock markets

M Umutlu, P Bengitoz - Quantitative Finance and Economics, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This study examines the cross-sectional relation between return range and future returns for
the first time in literature. We show that the return range can serve as a very practical …