University of Minnesota, Economics

Boğaziçi University, Economics

Boğaziçi University, Economics

Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, Industrial Organization, Dynamic General Equilibrium Models, Search Models, Risk-sharing and Social Insurance, Pricing, Migration

• Transition Dynamics in Equilibrium Search,” (with B. Platt), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Vol. 14, p. 158-199, 2022.
• “Accounting for age in marital search decisions,” (with B. Platt), European Economic Review, Vol. 85, p. 245-271, 2016.
• “Risk-sharing within families: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study,” (with O. Leukhina), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Vol. 52, p. 270-284, 2015.
• “A theory of search with deadlines and uncertain recall,” (with B. Platt), Economic Theory, Vol. 55, p. 101-133, 2014.
• “Insurance, consumer search, and equilibrium price distributions,” (with B. Platt), Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 81, p. 397-429, 2014.
• “Rushing to overpay: Modeling and measuring the REIT premium,” (with V. Lambson, G. McQueen, B. Slade, B. Platt, and J. Wood), Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Vol. 47, p. 506-537, 2013.
• “Running out of time: Limited unemployment benefits and reservation wages,” (with B. Platt), Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 15, p. 149-170, 2012.
• “Immigration, fiscal policy, and welfare in an aging population,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), Vol. 12, Article 23, 2012.
• “The n-person Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solution under manipulation,” (with B. Platt and M. Sertel), Review of Economic Design, Vol. 15, p. 147-162,

Advanced Macroeconomics (ECON202), Economics for Managers (ECON803), Country Economic Analysis (ECON804), Macroeconomics for the Global Economy (Econ801)

Ş. Nuray Akın is an associate professor and chairperson at the Department of Economics, Özyeğin University in İstanbul. She also serves as a member of the Executive Board of the School of Business and the Graduate School of Business. As of 2014, she is an elected member of the Board of Directors at the Industrial Development Bank of Türkiye (TSKB).

Between 2018-2021, Akın served as the academic director of MBA and Executive MBA programs and vice-director of the Graduate School of Business at Özyeğin University. During the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years, she was a visiting professor at Rice University (as part of TÜBİTAK Research Grant 2219) and the University of Iowa Tippie College of Business, where she taught macroeconomics to undergraduates.

Before returning to her homeland in 2015, Akın was an academic at the Department of Finance and Business Economics at the University of Southern California and at the Department of Economics at the University of Miami. In 2014, she served as a consultant to the Global Macroeconomics Team at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. She was a visiting researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and the Institute for the Study of Labor Markets (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Akın holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, an M.A. and B.A. in economics from Boğaziçi University.

Dr. Akın's research interests are macroeconomics, economic theory, and industrial organization. Her work mostly focuses on price formation in dynamic general equilibrium and search models. Her papers on consumer search, pricing, social security, optimal unemployment and health insurance appeared in reputable journals such as the American Economic Review: Microeconomics, European Economic Review, Review of Economic Dynamics, Economic Theory, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Journal of Risk and Insurance. Akın teaches courses both in macroeconomics and microeconomics at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is the recipient of numerous excellence in teaching awards from various institutions for teaching economics for managers, macroeconomics, and international economics.

Dr. Akın is a recipient of the Young Researcher Award of the Turkish Science Academy, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye’s (TÜBİTAK) 2232 Grant awarded to selected scholars working abroad to support their return to Türkiye, and TÜBİTAK 2219 Grant to support long-term international research visits by Turkish scholars. She is a member of the American Economic Association, Econometric Society, European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, Game Theory Society, Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, and Society for Non-Linear Dynamics.