Motohiro Yogo


Motohiro Yogo is an American economist, professor of economics at Princeton University. His research focuses on insurance and the impact of economic growth on individual income.

Education

Motohiro Yogo holds a A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D in economics from Harvard University.

Career

Yogo began his career as an assistant professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Warton School of Business. He then joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis as a monetary advisor in their research department. He was named as a professor at Princeton University in 2015.
He is also a research associate with the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research where he is co-director of the Insurance Working Group.
In 2019 Yogo was named associate editor of the Journal of Risk and Insurance. He previously served as the Associate Editor of Review of Financial Studies from 2016 to 2019 and the associate editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics from 2012 to 2014.
Yogo’s research interests include studying the impact of institutional investors on asset prices and the importance of risk and regulation in insurance markets. .

Selected publications