Assoc. Prof. Dr. · Gaziantep University
Mehmet Fatih Buğan
Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Public Finance
Mehmet Fatih Buğan is an associate professor in the Department of Public Finance, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Gaziantep University. Buğan attended primary school in Şanlıurfa and Mersin and continued to high school at Ankara Hasanoğlan Atatürk Anatolian Teacher Training High School. Buğan received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Afyon Kocatepe University and master's and doctoral degrees in business administration from Gaziantep University. Buğan's research focuses on connectedness and risk spillovers across financial markets: how, how fast and under which conditions a shock in one market is transmitted to others, studied in the time, frequency and quantile domains. The main areas of work are cryptocurrency, clean energy and critical mineral markets, geopolitical risk, investor sentiment and Islamic finance. Buğan has been the editor-in-chief of Özgür Publications since 2022 and currently serves as an editor of the Journal of Financial Economics and Banking (JOFEB), and previously served as an editor of the Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences and the Journal of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences of Gaziantep University.

Research interests
- Financial connectedness and risk spillovers
- Cryptocurrency markets
- Clean energy and critical minerals
- Geopolitical risk
- Investor sentiment and contagion
- Islamic finance and portfolio diversification
- Financial technologies