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Selahattin Imrohoroglu
Professor of Finance and Business Economics

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

Phone: 
213-740-6546
selo@marshall.usc.edu
Education: 
PhD, University of Minnesota; MS, BS, Middle East Technical University
Personal Website: 
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~simrohor/index.html

Overview

Selahattin Imrohoroglu is a macroeconomist who studies taxes, savings, and social security. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, and Economic Inquiry. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control and a member of the American Economic Association, Econometric Society, and the Society for Economic Dynamics.

Research

Achieving Fiscal Balance in Japan • 2012
Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan: A Neoclassical Perspective • 2012
Social Security, Benefit Claiming and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach • 2012
Discussion of Erosa, Fuster, and Kambourov Journal of Monetary Economics • 2012
Productivity and Fiscal Policy in Japan: Short Term Forecasts from the Standard Growth Model • 2010
Will a Growth Miracle Reduce Debt in Japan • 2010
Data Adjustments and the Equity Premium • 2010
Business Cycle Fluctuations and the Life Cycle: How Important is On-The-Job Skill Accumulation? • 2009
A Quantitative Assessment of the Decline in the U.S. Current Account • 2009
Labor Supply Elasticity and Social Security Reform • 2009
Social Security in the United States • 2008
Consumption over the Life Cycle: The Role of Annuities • 2008
Does Progressivity of Income Taxes Matter for Human Capital and Growth? • 2006
Growth and Welfare Analysis of Tax Progressivity in a Heterogenous-Agent Model • 2003
Saving and Pension Reform in General Equilibrium Models • 2001
Projected U.S. Demographies and Social Security • 1999
The Risk Sharing Implications of Alternative Social Security Arrangements: A Comment • 1999
A Quantitative Analysis of Capital Income Taxation • 1998
Stock Returns and Volatility in Emerging Financial Markets • 1997
Two Computations to Fund Social Security • 1997
International Currency Substitution and Seigniorage in a Simple Model of Money • 1996
A Markov Switching Model for the Hungarian Stabilization Plan of 1924 • 1995
Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Wealth • 1995
GMM Estimates of Currency Substitution between the Canadian Dollar and the U.S. Dollar • 1994
A Recursive Forward Simulation Method for Solving Nonlinear Rational Expectations Models • 1993
Testing for Sunspot Equilibria in the German Hyperinflation • 1993