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Ayse Imrohoroglu
Professor of Finance and Business Economics

USC Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808

Phone: 
213-740-6518
ayse@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, University of Minnesota; BS, Middle East Technical University
Personal Website: 
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~aimrohor/

Overview

Ayse Imrohoroglu is a macroeconomist who specializes in understanding business cycles, inflation, unemployment insurance, 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. From 2004 to 2007, she was Chair of the Department of Finance and Business Economics.

Research

Firm Level Productivity, Risk and Return • 2012
Government Programs Can Improve Local Labor Markets: Evidence from State Enterprise Zones, Federal Empowerment Zones and Federal Enterprise Communities.? • 2011
A Quantitative Assessment of the Decline in the U.S. Current Account • 2009