Ömer Faruk Koru

okoru@wesleyan • https://www.omerfarukkoru.com/

Middletown, CT 06459

Employment

Assistant Professor of Economics, Weselyan University2025-Present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University2021-2025

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania in Economics, Philadelphia, PA 2021

Thesis Title: Essays on Automation, Inequality, and Macroeconomic Performance

Committe Members: Dirk Krueger (Co-advisor), Harold Cole (Co-advisor), Guido Menzio

M.A., Sabanci University in Economics, Turkey 2015

B.A., Sabanci University in Economics (minor in Mathematics), Turkey 2013

Research Fields

Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Public Economics

Teaching Interests

Intro/Intermediate Macro/Micro, Money & Banking, International Economics, Urban Economics, Growth & Development, Computational Economics

Working Papers

Work in Progress

  • Optimal City Level Progressive Taxation
  • Impact of Export Intensity on Productivity Dispersion and Welfare (with Yaming Chang)

Conference and Seminar Presentations

  • 2023: Junior Search and Matching Workshop
  • 2022: Midwest Macro
  • 2021: University of Essex, SOLE
  • 2020: Washington University in St. Louis Graduate Student Conference, Midwest Theory (Cancelled), SIOE (Cancelled)
  • 2019: Midwest Macro, 3rd GW Student Research Conference in Economics, GCER Biennial Conference, NASMES

Referee Activity

Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, International Economic Review, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Contemporary Economic Policy

Teaching Experience

Wesleyan University

Macroeconomic Analysis F2025

Penn State

Monetary Theory and Policy F2022, F2023, F2024
Winners and Losers from Globalization S2022, F2023, F2024
Multinationals and the Globalization of Production F2022, S2023, S2024
Economics of Financial Crisis S2023, S2024, S2025
International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics F2021, S2022, S2025
Urban Economics F2021

University of Pennsylvania

Intermediate Microeconomics Summer 2019
Introductory Economics: Macroeconomics F2018, S2019

Sabanci University

Summer Math Camp Summer 2014

Awards and Scholarships

SAS Dean’s Travel Subvention, UPenn2019
SASgov Travel Grant, UPenn2019
GAPSA Research Travel Grant, UPenn2019
Graduate Scholarship, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey Scholarship2013-2015
Merit Scholarship, Sabanci University2008-2013

Computer Skills

Matlab, R, JavaScript, C++, Python, VBA