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Senay Agca

Senay Agca

Senay Agca

Professor of Finance; Professor of Decision Sciences

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Office Phone: (202) 994-9209
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Şenay Ağca is a professor of finance and a professor of decision sciences at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). She has worked as a program director for the Economics program and Future Manufacturing program on bio-, eco- and cyber manufacturing areas at the National Science Foundation (NSF), and worked as a member of the steering committee on Bioeconomy at the NSF. She has received NSF Superior Accomplishment Award and Certificate of Excellence from NSF due to her contributions. She has also worked in running idea labs for Harnessing the Data Revolution, as well as in programs on Graduate Research Fellowship, Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison for Industry (GOALI) and the 2026 NSF idea machine. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, Georgetown University, International Monetary Fund and Sciences Po at various periods since 2006.

Her research interests are corporate-government dynamics, macro-finance, credit risk, bioeconomy, and supply chains. She has published in major finance and economics journals, and her papers including those with her Ph.D. students have been nominated for best paper awards. She has won diverse grants such as the National Science Foundation Grant, the J. Wendell and Louise Crain Research Fellowship, GW-CIBER research grants, an American Consortium on European Union Studies grant, a GW Institute for Corporate Responsibility grant, and a Dean’s Scholarship. She was one of the key members who worked on developing and launching the IFC-Milken Institute Capital Markets Program at GW.

  • Corporate Finance
  • Macro-finance
  • Government Corporation Dynamics 
  • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
  • Bioeconomy
  • Product Networks and Supply Chains
  • Credit Risk

Publications

Reports

Working Papers

  • "Weight of Compliance: Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement, Bank Composition, and Lending" (with Pablo Slutzky and Stefan Zeume) (appeared in Top Ten SSRN Downloads)
  • “Doing More for Less? New Evidence on Lobbying and Government Contracts” (with Fuhong Li, Deniz Igan, Prachi Mishra) (appeared in Top Ten SSRN Downloads)
  • "The Reach of Corporate Governance Beyond the Grave: Bankruptcy Decisions and Recoveries on Defaulted Debt" (with Mark Carey and Ugur Lel)
  • "Fiscal Consolidation Policies and Corporate Investment Horizon” (with Xiangming Fang and Deniz Igan)

Book Chapters

  • Ağca, Ş. and S. Islam, 2020, "Securitized Debt Markets" in Debt Markets and Investments, in Kent Baker, Greg Filberg, Andrew Spieler eds. Oxford University Press.