Ezgi Özsöğüt

I am an applied economist and currently an affiliate professor at ESCP Business School in Paris.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics from the Paris School of Economics and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Over the past decade, I have worked as a researcher at the OECD, the Bank of England, and the European Investment Bank and have taught at ESCP Business School, Sciences Po and İzmir University of Economics. I am also a research fellow at the Galatasaray University Economic Research Center (GIAM).

In my work as a Ph.D. candidate, I focused on macroeconomic implications of income and wealth inequality. By placing heterogeneity at the core of macroeconomic analysis, I studied how the scope of policy should differ across countries, which policy instruments are most relevant, and which groups within an economy are most affected by them. Through my research and policy work, I came to see that understanding these differences often requires letting the data speak beyond the theoretical assumptions. This conviction led me to engage more deeply with applied and, more recently, data based methods. Today, my work builds on this combination of theory and data driven empirical analysis to better understand key societal challenges and the policies designed to address them. 

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

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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.”