Keynote Speakers
Prof. Ayşegül Şahin (Princeton University)
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, Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Technical Advisory Committee, Executive Committee of the CRIW and the Advisory Boards of the San Francisco Fed, Dallas Fed and the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU conference. She also acts as consultants to the Federal Reserve Banks of Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Richmond and Minneapolis.
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.
Prof. Robert Shimer (University of Chicago)
Robert Shimer is the George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He was awarded the Sherwin Rosen Prize for Outstanding Contributions in the Field of Labor Economics by the Society of Labor Economics in 2010. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Economic Fluctuations and Growth Group, and a research fellow in the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is the recipient of six research grants from the National Science Foundation and a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He was an editor of the Journal of Political Economy from 2004 to 2012.
Shimer's research is on labor markets and macroeconomics. Most of it has focused on search frictions but he has also explored the mismatch between workers' human capital and geographic location and the skill requirements and location of available jobs.