Biography

Motohiro Yogo (與語基裕) is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a co-director of the NBER Insurance Working Group, and a fellow of the Econometric Society. He is a financial economist with research interests in asset pricing, insurance, international finance, and household finance. He has coauthored a graduate textbook on the Financial Economics of Insurance. His research has received financial support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute on Aging, and the Social Security Administration. He teaches undergraduate financial investments and graduate asset pricing at Princeton. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 2004 and an A.B. in economics from Princeton in 2000.