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Short Bio

Serdar Ozkan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He studies how differences across workers, households, and firms shape inequality and macroeconomic outcomes, with a focus on labor markets, firm behavior, and economic policy. His research combines large-scale microeconomic data with structural models and modern empirical methods, including machine learning and textual analysis. His research has appeared in Econometrica, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of the European Economic Association, and Quantitative Economics, among others.

Before joining SMU, Dr. Ozkan was a Senior Economic Policy Advisor at the St. Louis Fed. He has also held full-time or visiting positions at the University of Toronto, the Federal Reserve Board, the Minneapolis Fed, and Stanford University. He is an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Dynamics and a CESifo Research Network Member. Dr. Ozkan has received several awards and research grants, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship and multiple grants from the SSHRC of Canada. His research has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, and Business Insider.

Dr. Ozkan received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He also holds an M.Sc. from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.Sc. from Bogazici University.