Motohiro Yogo

Position
Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Professor for the Study of Investment and Financial Markets, Professor of Economics
Bio/Description

Motohiro Yogo (與語基裕) is a professor of economics at Princeton University. His fields of expertise are financial economics, insurance, and econometrics. He has published in various economics and finance journals including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He has received various awards for his work including the GPIF Finance Award, the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, and the Zellner Thesis Award in Business and Economic Statistics. He is also a research associate of the NBER and a co-director of the NBER Insurance Working Group. He teaches graduate asset pricing and undergraduate financial investments at Princeton. Yogo earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2004. Before joining Princeton’s faculty in 2015, he was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.

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