Mehmet Yörükoğlu received Distinguished Young Scientist Award, 2004

Our Faculty member Mehmet Yörükoglu received Turkish Academy of Sciences' Highly Achieved Young Scholar Award, 2004.
Mehmet Yörükoglu received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Rochester in 1996. Before joining our faculty, he had been a faculty member in the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago between 1996-2003. He was a visiting faculty member in the Finance Department of The Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania in 1998-1999 academic year. His studies especially on Macroeconomic Affects of the Information Technology Revolution and Information Technology Productivity Paradox received enormous academic and popular attention. His studies are heavily cited in academic journals and received popular attention through popular media like Newsweek, Slate, Times, etc. For more than two years, one of his papers was ranked in top 10 best journal articles among more than 100,000 journal articles in economics, in terms of internet download numbers.