The Wolfcast was interested to speak with Özgür Arslan-Ayaydin, Clinical Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Some of the topics that Özgür covered:
- Growing up in Turkey and studying Economics and Finance
- Relating economic theories to real life and looking for non-obvious contradictions
- Islamic Finance and how Islamic banks make money
- Risk sharing and trying to eliminate moral hazards
- The passion for teaching undergraduate students Finance
- The importance and difficulty of curating the overwhelming amount of information we receive
- Gold, cryptocurrency, and regulations
Other titles we considered for this episode:
- Teaching Finance Is Very Rewarding, It’s So Dynamic and Applicable
- If I Get a Gain, I Should Provide a Gain as Well
- This Generation Is So Open to Alternatives
- Their Lives Are Changing in a Very Fast Pace
- Two Sides Have to Be Fair
