Ezgi Özsöğüt

I am an applied economist and currently an affiliate professor at ESCP Business School in Paris. I am also an affiliated researcher at the Galatasaray University Economic Research Center (GIAM). 

In my Ph.D. research at the Paris School of Economics,  I focused on the macroeconomic implications of income and wealth inequality. By placing heterogeneity at the core of the analysis, I studied how the scope of policy differs across countries, which instruments are most relevant, and which groups within an economy are most affected by them. 

Through my work in both academic and policy environments, I came to see that understanding these differences often requires making better use of the information contained in the data. This conviction led me to engage more deeply with applied empirical work and, more recently, with data-driven and machine learning methods. Today, I combine economic theory with flexible empirical approaches to better understand key societal challenges and the policies designed to address them. 

You can contact me at: ezgi.ozsogut@escp.eu

LinkedIn | CV 

The Effect of Capital Share on Income Inequality: Identifying the Time Patterns, with Oğuzhan Akgün, The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2026 (paper)

“How Responsive Are Housing Markets in the OECD? National Level Estimates,” with Maria Chiara Cavalleri and Boris Cournède, OECD Economics Department Working Paper, 2019.

“Income Inequality and the Current Account,” with Michael Kumhof, Romain Ranciere, and Pablo Winant

“Machine Learning for Panel Forecasting: Methods and Evidence.” with Oğuzhan Akgün

“Two Step Estimation of Time Varying Coefficients in Panel Data with a Latent Group Structure” with Oğuzhan Akgün and Monika Avila Marquez 

“Financial Intermediation, Inequality, and Sudden Stops.”