[5] İmrohoroğlu obtained her BS in economics from the Middle East Technical University in 1980 and PhD from the University of Minnesota in 1988 with a dissertation titled "Aggregate Implications of Liquidity Constraints" under the advisory of Edward C. Prescott.
[1] Her research interests include business cycles, inflation, unemployment insurance and social security.
İmrohoroğlu received a grant from the National Science Foundation in 1992 to investigate the effects of social security programmes on economies with imperfect insurance.
[3] She was also an economic advisor to the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey from 2013 to 2015.
[5] She is married to the fellow Turkish economist at the USC Marshall School of Business Selahattin İmrohoroğlu.