Gizem Saka

Gizem Saka is a Senior Lecturer of Finance at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, actively teaching economics and finance courses for the Fall 2025 semester.

Her current teaching responsibilities include:

• BEPP1000 - Introductory Economics (12 sections)
• BEPP2500 - Managerial Economics
• BEPP9500 - Managerial Economics
• ECON4999 - Independent Study
• FNCE0001 - Financial Markets and the Economy
• FNCE1010 - Monetary Economics and the Global Economy

Her research interests, reflected through her teaching curriculum, span Economics and Finance with emphasis on real-world applications. She examines microeconomic principles governing household and firm behavior, market efficiency, and government intervention impacts through case studies like gas taxes and minimum wage policies. In macroeconomics, she analyzes national output determination, unemployment metrics, inflation dynamics, and Federal Reserve policy responses. Her managerial economics courses bridge theory with business strategy, exploring asymmetric information challenges and strategic interactions in product markets and auctions, while financial markets courses address contemporary issues like pandemic-induced economic shocks and global capital flow mechanisms.

No scientific awards are documented in the provided materials.

She supervises independent research through ECON4999, requiring students to produce comprehensive papers synthesizing their findings under faculty guidance. Her teaching approach emphasizes developing economic reasoning skills for practical decision-making in business, policy, and personal contexts.