Dr. Gitit Gur Gershgoren

Senior Lecturer in Finance, Faculty of Business Administration

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About

Gitit Gur Gershgoren performed as the Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Department of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Deputy Director of the Compensation Fund in Chief Scientist. Additionally, she served as a member of the Public Committee for the Study of Competitiveness in the Economy, the Committee for the Improvement of Trade and Liquidity on the Exchange, and the Inter-Ministry Committee for the Promotion of Investment in Public Companies operating in R&D.

Education

Ph.D.

Food Science, University of Colorado at Boulder (2007).

M.B.A.

Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2000).

B.A.

Economics and International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996).

Teaching Areas

Finance theories, portfolio management, international finance, and financial policy.

Research interests

Market structure, analysis of financial systems using tools from the field of ecophysics, corporate governance and regulation of capital markets.

Selected Publications

G. Gur, E. Hughson and J. Zender (under review), A Simple-but-Powerful Test for Long-Run Event Studies, Journal of Finance.
C. Campbell, E. Hughson, G. Gur and E. Ziemkiewicz (under review), Touch Down or Blow Out? An Event Study Analysis of Super Bowl Advertising, Journal of Marketing
Dror Y. Kenett, Eshel Ben-Jacob, H. Eugene Stanley, and Gitit Gur-Gershgoren (under review), How High Frequency Analysis Affects a Market Index, Scientific Reports.
Dror Y. Kenett, Tobias Preis, Gitit Gur-Gershgoren, Eshel Ben-Jacob (2012), Quantifying Meta–Correlations In Financial Markets, Europhysics Letters 99, 38001.
Dror Y. Kenett, Tobias Preis, Gitit Gur-Gershgoren, Eshel Ben-Jacob (2012), Dependency Network and Node Influence: Application To the Study of Financial Markets, International Journal Of Bifurcation And Chaos 22(7), 1250181.