Serdar Aldatmaz

Serdar Aldatmaz is a Visiting Associate Professor of Finance at Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business. Prior to joining DMBS, he was an Assistant Professor of Finance at George Mason University and has taught at George Washington University. His primary research area is empirical corporate finance, with a focus on private equity, venture capital, initial public offerings, entrepreneurship, innovation, and law and finance.

In his current work, he studies international private equity investments with a focus on their implications on the real economy. He also investigates issues on the interplay between private and public markets as well as the effect of regulatory factors on this.

His work has been published at the Journal of Financial Economics and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and featured in Harvard, Columbia, and Duke Law School forums.

Dr. Aldatmaz holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bachelors of Arts degrees in both Economics and Business Administration from Koc University in Istanbul, where he graduated as the department and school valedictorian.