Musa Orak

Principal Economist, Division of International Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

I am a Principal Economist in the Advanced Foreign Economies Section of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, where I have worked since 2016. My research is in macroeconomics and labor economics. Current topics include technological change, the labor share and inequality, labor market frictions and taxation, inflation dynamics in advanced economies, and the real effects of uncertainty and ambiguity.

I received my Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA in 2016. Before graduate school I was a researcher in the Research and Monetary Policy Department of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.

Fields: Macroeconomics, Labor Markets, International Macroeconomics, Monetary Policy.

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