29/02/2016
Applications are now open for the Hakan Orbay Research Awards 2016, given by the Sabancı University School of Management in honor of faculty member Hakan Orbay who passed away in 2011. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2016. Winners will be announced on September 15, 2016.
This year's awards entail a “Young Researcher Award” of 5000 TL and a “Doctorate Student Award" of 3000 TL for one winner each.
The jury panel this year will consist of Benan Zeki Orbay from Istanbul Bilgi University and Sabancı University faculty Aziz Şimşir, Eren İnci, İzak Atiyas, Koray Deniz Şimşek, Melsa Ararat, Nakiye Boyacıgiller and Yiğit Atılgan.
The Hakan Orbay Research Awards seek to support original studies by young researchers in finance and microeconomics. Interested applicants can submit their studies and a one-page resume to orbayaward@sabanciuniv.edu.
Last year's first prize went to Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas faculty Ümit Gürkan Gürün with his paper “Resident Networks and Firm Trade.” Mehmet İhsan Canayaz from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford came second with “Is the revolving door of Washington a back door to excess corporate returns?” and Koç University faculty Cem Demiroğlu came third with “Indicators of Collateral Misreporting.”
About Hakan Orbay:
Hakan Orbay finished the Ankara High School of Science in 1979 and received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Boğaziçi University between 1979 and 1983. He completed a master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1986, after which he returned to Turkey and worked in information technologies in the banking sector from 1988 to 1991. Having never lost his interest in academic studies, Orbay went back to the US in 1991 for a PhD in Economics in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, which he completed in 1995. Orbay was a member of Koç University faculty from 1996 to 1999, when he joined Sabancı University as one of the founding faculty members. He continued his endeavors in the School of Management until his passing in 2011.
