Burak Doğan

Asst. Prof. Dr. Burak Doğan is a faculty member and researcher who combines a doctorate in economics with a degree in law, and who holds both theoretical and applied expertise in finance and capital markets. Through his faculty position in the Department of Economics at Bahçeşehir University, his legal consultancy and his research oriented toward market practice, he presents an integrated profile that brings together finance theory, regulation and real case-file experience.

Doğan was born in Mersin in 1987. He completed his secondary education at Adana Science High School (2004). He began his undergraduate studies in the Department of Computer Engineering at Bilkent University and completed them in the same university's Department of Management, with a major in finance (2011). He carried out graduate-level studies in Information Systems at Middle East Technical University (2011–2013). He received his master's degree in Capital Markets and Finance from Bahçeşehir University (2013–2018), where he wrote a thesis entitled "Constructing a Volatility Index Using Borsa Istanbul 30 Index Warrants" under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ümit Erol. In this thesis he constructed a volatility index for Borsa Istanbul by computing it from warrants, a method that had not previously been applied to that market.

Between 2018 and 2022 he pursued the Ph.D. program in economics at Istanbul Technical University and the undergraduate law program at Istanbul University simultaneously; he completed his law degree in 2022 and his doctorate in economics in 2023. His doctoral research concentrated on applications of microeconomics: under the supervision of Dr. Sinan Ertemel, he adapted questions of Islamic inheritance law to the cooperative game theory branch of microeconomics. Through this interdisciplinary work he examined disputed legal cases from Islamic history within a game-theoretic framework and introduced the divisions he compiled from Islamic history into the literature as fair division rules. He presented this work at conferences, symposia and departmental seminars at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul University, Istanbul Medeniyet University and Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University. The articles he produced from the same research with Dr. Ertemel were published in the Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, the Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute and Darulfunun İlahiyat.

Doğan has worked at Bahçeşehir University since 2013. He served as an academic assistant at the university's Financial Research and Application Center (2013–2018) and in its Department of International Finance (2018–2022), and acted as coordinator and instructor in numerous finance certificate programs organized in cooperation with Bloomberg and Matriks. This experience covers financial literacy and statistics programs as well as training in terminal-based market data analysis. Today he also delivers professional training for brokerage houses and financial institutions in financial literacy, capital markets regulation, fundamental analysis and investment advisory.

Between 2022 and 2024 Doğan prepared more than fifty expert reports for the Istanbul Commercial Courts of First Instance in disputes involving banking transactions, VIOP (Borsa Istanbul derivatives) transactions, disguised profit transfers, bankruptcy and negotiable instruments. In 2024 he obtained his attorney's license from the Istanbul Bar Association. He currently provides consultancy in capital markets and commercial law, and concentrates his academic work on the intersection of economics and law and of finance and law.

Doğan joined the Department of Economics at Bahçeşehir University as a lecturer in 2022 and has served as an assistant professor since April 2024; over this period he has taught more than 4,000 students. To date he has taught Mathematics for Social Sciences, Business Mathematics, Corporate Finance, Microeconomics, Research Methods and Statistics, and Applied Statistics.

Three master's students have graduated to date under Doğan's thesis supervision. His graduates work at distinguished financial institutions in Morocco, Libya and Tunisia.

Doğan has numerous articles published in leading journals of his field indexed in international databases. His interdisciplinary work covers companies' adoption of blockchain and artificial intelligence and their ESG performance, the effect of the FX-Protected Deposit (KKM) scheme on investor losses in VIOP, the effects of boycotts on publicly traded companies, the effects of mergers and acquisitions on target companies, and herding behavior in the stock market.

His single-authored article published in 2025 in Borsa Istanbul Review, one of the leading journals in finance, also attracted public attention; he gave an interview on the same subject to Anadolu Agency.

Doğan has served as a referee for numerous leading journals of his field indexed in international databases. He is currently a Collection Editor of the Topical Collection “The Economics of Crime” in Encyclopedia (MDPI).

Corporate finance, financial literacy, capital markets law, capital markets professional conduct rules, investment advisory and the use of financial data are the prominent topics in Doğan's corporate and professional training programs.