Arzu Ozoguz

Dr. Arzu Ozoguz is a visiting assistant professor of finance at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. Her research interests include investments, corporate finance, and information economics, with a focus on how the information environment in financial markets affects asset prices and stock returns. She also studies the interaction between information in stock prices and firms’ real investment decisions. She has received Best Paper Awards from the Western Finance Association and the Financial Management Association, and her research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies and the Journal of Financial Economics. Prior to joining Rice University, Dr. Ozoguz held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Dallas, Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Queen’s Business School at Queen’s University in Canada. She received her PhD from INSEAD in France, a bachelor’s degree in economics from Oberlin College, and an MBA from Koc University in Istanbul. Before her PhD studies, she worked as a research analyst at an investment bank in Istanbul, Turkey. She teaches courses on Coursera such as "Biases and Portfolio Selection," "Global Financial Markets and Instruments," and "Investment Strategies and Portfolio Analysis."