Simmons College

Niloufer Sohrabji teaches courses in international economics including International Trade, International Monetary Systems and Comparative Economies of East Asia. She also teaches the quantitative classes including Economic Models and Quantitative Methods and Econometrics. Professor Sohrabji is a member of, and has taught classes for the Honors program, East Asian Studies and the International Relations program. Her research is focused on international economic issues starting with her dissertation on real exchange rate targeting in developing countries. More recently, Professor Sohrabji has narrowed her focus on real exchange rate and current account issues for Turkey. In April, 2006 her paper "An Intertemporal Benchmark Model for Turkey's Current Account" was presented by her co-author, Ayla Ogus, at a conference in Izmir, Turkey. The paper is forthcoming in Empirical Economics. Professor Sohrabji is currently working on two projects to do with Turkey, one on predicting the present sustainability of Turkey's current account and the other on constructing an equilibrium real exchange rate for Turkey and its impact on the Turkish current account.