Aysegul Sahin
Professor — Ph.D., University of Rochester
Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics
Contact
- E-mail: aysegul.sahin@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-3664
- Office: BRB 2.102E
- Campus Mail Code: C3100
Biography
Ayşegül Şahin is the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Prior to joining UT Austin’s economics department, she was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for fourteen years, where she primarily focused on the analysis of the U.S. labor market. Şahin’s research focuses on the analysis of macro-labor issues such as unemployment and labor force participation dynamics, labor market mismatch, gender disparities in labor market outcomes and entrepreneurship. Her papers have appeared in various academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, and Brookings Papers on Economic Activity as well as in the media (the Economist, NY Times, Wall St Journal, Bloomberg, among others).
Şahin received her bachelor’s and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, and her M.A and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
