About

Ayşegül Şahin is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a research associate of the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics groups. She has been serving as the editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics since January 2024. She is members of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office, Executive Committee of the CRIW and the Advisory Boards of the Dallas Fed, NY Fed and the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU conference. Prior to joining Princeton University, she was the Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at the University of Texas at Austin from 2018 to 2024. She worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for fourteen years until 2018, where she founded and led the team which focused on the analysis of U.S. labor market. 

Şahin’s research focuses on analysis of macro-labor issues such as maximum employment, unemployment and labor force participation dynamics, labor market mismatch, estimation of the natural rate of unemployment, gender disparities and unevenness in labor market outcomes, wage and price inflation,  and entrepreneurship. Her papers have appeared in various academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Monetary Economics, Jackson Hole Symposium, 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 University of Rochester.

NBER Reporter Research Summary 

Richmond Fed Econ Focus Interview

Recent Developments in Macro Labor Lecture