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serdar.ozkan@frb.gov
serdar.ozkan@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2011
- M.A., Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2007
- M.S., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, University of Texas - Austin, 2005
- B.S., Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, 2003
Current Research Topics
- Income Inequality, Human Capital, Tax Policies
- Idiosyncratic Income Risk, Medical Expenditures
Fields of Interest
Professional Experience
Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- 2011 - present
Recitation Instructor/Teaching Assistant
University of Pennsylvania
- 2006 - 2010
Dissertation Fellow
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- 2009
Research Assistant
National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2008
Ph.D. Summer Intern
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
- 2007
Publications
- Karahan, Yasar Fatih, and Serdar Ozkan (Forthcoming). "On the Persistence of Income Shocks Over the Life Cycle: Evidence, Theory, and Implications," Review of Economic Dynamics.
- Guvenen, Fatih, Serdar Ozkan, and Jae Song (2012). "The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk," NBER Working Papers 18035. National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Guvenen, Fatih, Burhanettin Kuruscu, and Serdar Ozkan (2013). "Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequalit: A Cross-Country Analysis ," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2013-20. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Ozkan, Serdar (2011). "Essays on the Macroeconomics of Income Inequality," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
Presentations
conference
2012
NBER Summer Institute, Income Distribution and Macroeconomics Workshop
conference
2012
NBER Summer Institute, Aggregate Implications of Micro Group
seminar
2012
Bilkent University
conference
2012
Health and Mortality Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara
conference
2009, 2011, 2012
Society for Economic Dynamics Annual Meeting
conference
2012
Midwest Economics Association Annual Conferene
conference
2012
WEAI 87th Annual Conference
discussion
2012
AEA Meetings
seminar
2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
seminar
2011
Carnegie Mellon University
seminar
2011
University of Rochester
seminar
2011
University of Texas - Austin
seminar
2011
Purdue University
seminar
2011
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
seminar
2011
Toulouse School of Economics
seminar
2009, 2011
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
seminar
2011
Bank of Italy
seminar
2010, 2011
University of Pennsylvania
conference
2011
Retirement Research Consortium Annual Conference
conference
2011
5th Workshop in Economics at Koc University
seminar
2011
Middle Eastern Technical University
conference
2010
Econometric Society World Congress
conference
2010
MOOD 10th Doctoral Workshop in Economic Theory and Econometrics
conference
2010
Association for Public Economic Theory Conference
Other Activities
Awards
2010
University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2010
Boston College
Center for Retirement Research Dissertation Fellow
2009
University of Pennsylvania
Joel Popkin Teaching Prize in Economics
2008
University of Pennsylvania
The Rodin Fellowship
2006
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Economics Fellowship
2005
Turkish Petroleum Foundation
Turkish Petroleum Foundation Fellowship
Referee
- Econometrica
- American Economic Review
- Journal of Economic Theory
- Review of Economic Dynamics
- International Economic Review
- Macroeconomic Dynamics
- The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
- Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
- Economic Inquiry
Last update:
May 6, 2013
