E-mail: s.nuray.akin@gmail.com
Phone: (305) 284-1627
Office: 517-K Jenkins Bldg.
Office Hours: By appointment
Address:
    Dr. Serife Nuray Akin
    University of Miami
    Department of Economics
    517-K Jenkins Bldg.
    Coral Gables, FL 33124

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Miami. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Economics at the University of Minnesota, where I worked under the supervision of Professor Timothy J. Kehoe. I have a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, where I was a research assistant to Professor Murat R. Sertel.

In Fall 2011, I was a visiting scholar at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. In Spring 2006, I visited the IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) in Bonn, Germany. From 2005 to 2006, I was a researcher at the Minnesota Population Center for the IPUMS-International project, where I worked on harmonizing variables in large census data sets to make them publicly available for researchers.
 
My research interests are macroeconomics, general equilibrium and search theory, labor economics, and international economics. My work mostly focuses on equilibrium price and wage formation in dynamic models where social insurance affects agents' incentives. I have published papers on immigration and social security, unemployment insurance and equilibrium wages, as well as the effects of health insurance on consumer search and healthcare prices.