İbrahim Yaşar GÖK

Assoc. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Yaşar GÖK is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, serving within the Department of Banking and Finance. His research portfolio integrates sports economics, sustainable finance, financial law, and market micro-structure, and he teaches a wide spectrum of courses including Banking Law, Energy Finance, Sports Finance and Economics, and International Financial Markets.

His educational background is multidisciplinary: he holds an associate degree in Justice from Anadolu University, bachelor’s degrees in Business Administration and Law from Anadolu and Gazi Universities respectively, master’s degrees in Business Administration and Econometrics from Suleyman Demirel University, a master’s in Private Law from Akdeniz University, and a PhD in Business Administration from Suleyman Demirel University.

Research interests revolve around:

• Sports finance and economics, exploring payroll efficiency and financial fair-play impacts on sporting success.
• Corporate sustainability and ESG investing, analysing the performance of sustainability indices and the market reaction to ESG inclusion.
• Banking and financial law, particularly regulations affecting Turkish financial markets.
• Exchange-rate volatility and central-bank intervention mechanisms such as the Reserve Options Mechanism.
• High-frequency event studies on the effects of macro-news and terrorism shocks on Turkish equity and derivatives markets.

Over the last decade his work has appeared in journals such as Physica A, Social Responsibility Journal, Financial Studies and numerous Turkish-indexed outlets, reflecting a consistent focus on volatility spill-overs, hedging effectiveness, and the interplay between sustainability metrics and financial performance.

He has supervised master’s theses on working university students’ financial conditions and on banks’ inclusion in sustainability indices, and he has served as editor for several international book projects including Handbook of Research on Global Aspects of Sustainable Finance in Times of Crises.