Who's Who

Sumru Altuğ

Sumru Altuğ is Professor of Economics at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh (1978, 1980) and a Ph. D. degree in Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University (1985). Her research interests are in the areas of dynamic macroeconomic modeling, business cycles and growth. Her recent research is on irreversible investment, tax policy and investment, and the sources of long-term economic growth for Turkey, 
 
Prof. Altuğ held an Assistant Professor position in Economics at the University of Minnesota (1984–1994) and visiting positions at the University of Wisconsin (1988–1989), Duke University (1990–1991) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1994–1995). She was a Visiting Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in 1986 and has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, U.K. since 1997. She also held chaired professor positions at the University of Durham and the University of York in the UK during 1999–2002. She has served as an Associate Editor for the Economic Journal (2000–2003) and as a member of the Economic and Social Research Council Politics, Economics, and Geography (PEG) Research College, UK (2001–2003).  Currently she serves as an Associate Editor for e-conomics, published by the Kiel Institute, and as an Advisory Board member for several journals published in Turkey.

She is the author or co-editor of several well known texts in macroeconomics, including Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium and Asset Pricing for Dynamic Economies, issued from Cambridge University Press in 2003 and 2008, respectively. She has also co-edited a collected volume on the Turkish economy from Routledge in 2006.  Her most recent work is a monograph entitled Business Cycles: Fact, Fantasy, and Fallacy, published by World Scientific (2009).