Ahmet
K. Karagozoglu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Finance
Zarb School of Business
Academic Director of Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room
Faculty Adviser of HQT - Hofstra Quants & Traders
Director of GARP @ Hofstra -
Global Association of Risk Professionals College Chapter
Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY 11549-1270
finakk@hofstra.edu
(516) 463-5701 (voice)
(516) 463-4834 (fax)
Trading Competitions
2011 CME Group Commodity Challenge New York Open Outcry Trading Competition photos and videos are accessible via my Vimeo and Photoshelter links.
Information, photos and videos related to trading competitions (NYMEX, CME Group, Hofstra-CME High School, etc.) organized, sponsored or hosted in
part by Dr. Karagozoglu's efforts as well as the ones his students participated are contained at following link:
Click here for Trading Competition Pages
Conferences
Information, photos and videos related to national and international finance conferences (EWGFM, etc.) organized by Dr. Karagozoglu are contained at the following link:
Click here for Conference Pages
Dr. Karagozoglu's Bio
Dr. Karagozoglu is the Academic Director of the Martin B. Greenberg Trading Room at Frank G. Zarb School of Business. More information about the facility can be found at www.hofstra.edu/tradingroom. Dedication of the facility took place on May 7, 2007.
Dr. Karagozoglu has been voted by the Zarb School of Business students as the Distinguished Teacher of the Year and received his award during Hofstra's Spring 2009 Commencement.
Dr. Karagozoglu received the Dean's Service Award for 2007 and Research Award for 2000 in the Frank G. Zarb School of Business.
Dr. Karagozoglu served as the Coordinator of the Hofstra-Erasmus Summer Program from 2003 to 2005. Click here for the pictures from Summer 2003.
Dr. Karagozoglu's primary research interests are in the area of futures markets, option pricing, market microstructure, interest rate derivatives and risk management. His work has been published in the Journal of Futures Markets, the Financial Review, the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, the Journal of Fixed Income, the Review of Futures Markets, and the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. He has presented papers at the annual conferences of the Financial Management Association, the Eastern Finance Association, the Midwest Finance Association, the Multinational Finance Society, and the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has also presented his research at the the Asia-Pacific Futures Research Symposium and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and was invited to participate Chicago Board of Trade Research Seminar.
Prior to coming to Hofstra University, Dr. Karagozoglu taught full-time at Baruch College both at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Dr. Karagozoglu received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey. He received his M.B.A from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He earned an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in finance at Baruch College of the City University of New York, where he received the Oscar Lasdon Best Dissertation Award.
