Ayse Imrohoroglu

Ayşe Ökten İmrohoroğlu is a Professor of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and her B.A. from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. Her research combines theory and data to shed light on questions concerning business cycles, inflation, unemployment insurance, saving rates and social security.

Her work has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Journal of Monetary Economics. She received a National Science Foundation grant in 1992 to investigate the effects of social security programs on economies with imperfect insurance. She served as an editor to the European Economic Review between 2012 and 2018; was department chair at the Finance and Business Economics Department at USC between 2004 and 2007; and an economic advisor to the Central bank of Turkey between 2013 and 2015.