2026 Alan Kirman: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	57	942	841	19	18	193	14673

Research.com Recognitions

1990 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Alan Kirman is affiliated with the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in France. Their research predominantly focuses on the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with an emphasis on economics and econometrics, finance, strategy and management, general economics, econometrics and finance, and gender studies.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

Economic Theory and Institutions
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Economic and Technological Innovation
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Economic theories and models

Alan Kirman has published research articles in a variety of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
SSRN Electronic Journal
Nature Physics
Challenge
Review of Political Economy

Recent published papers include:

"Systemic resilience in economics," 2022, Nature Physics
"Resilient Financial Systems Can Soften the Next Global Financial Crisis," 2020, Challenge
"Walras or Pareto: Who is to Blame for the State of Modern Economic Theory?" 2021, Review of Political Economy
"Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: competing policy goals in South African academia," 2023, Socio-Economic Review
"Forecasting and policy when 'we simply do not know'," 2025, International Journal of Forecasting

The scientist coauthored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators, including William Hynes, Benjamin D. Trump, Igor Linkov, Spiros Bougheas, and David I. Harvey.

Alan Kirman's book publication record includes one title published by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis:

"Methodologies and Tools for Integrated Systems Modelling," 2020

Recognition of their work includes election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1990, and as an Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

Whom Or What Does the Representative Individual Represent

Alan P. Kirman

1892
Citations
Ants, Rationality, and Recruitment

Alan Kirman

1404
Citations
The Intrinsic Limits of Modern Economic-Theory - the Emperor Has No Clothes

Alan Kirman

631
Citations
The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics

David Colander;Hans Föllmer;Armin Haas;Michael D. Goldberg

595
Citations
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE SYSTEMIC FAILURE OF THE ECONOMICS PROFESSION

David Colander;Michael Goldberg;Armin Haas;Katarina Juselius

496
Citations
Beyond DSGE Models: Toward an Empirically Based Macroeconomics

David Colander;Peter Howitt;Alan Kirman;Axel Leijonhufvud

429
Citations
The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory

Alan Kirman

411
Citations
Market Organisation and Trading Relationships

Gerard Weisbuch;Alan Kirman;Dorothea Herreiner

393
Citations
Complex Economics: Individual and Collective Rationality

Alan Kirman

374
Citations
Evolving market structure: An ACE model of price dispersion and loyalty

Alan P. Kirman;Nicolaas J. Vriend

372
Citations
Equilibrium Analysis: Variations on Themes by Edgeworth and Walras

Werner Hildenbrand;A. P. Kirman

371
Citations
Microeconomic models for long-memory in the volatility of financial time series

Alan Kirman;Gilles Teyssière

332
Citations
The economy as an evolving network

Alan Kirman

332
Citations
Arrow's theorem, many agents, and invisible dictators☆

Alan P Kirman;Dieter Sondermann

325
Citations
Introduction to Equilibrium Analysis: Variations on Themes by Edgeworth and Walras

A. P. Kirman;Werner Hildenbrand

299
Citations
Fairness and Envy

Allan M Feldman;Alan Kirman

237
Citations
A physical analogue of the Schelling model

Unknown

221
Citations
A complex systems approach to constructing better models for managing financial markets and the economy

J. Doyne Farmer;M. Gallegati;C. Hommes;A. Kirman

213
Citations
DYNAMIC OLIGOPOLY WITH INVENTORIES

Alan P. Kirman;Matthew J. Sobel

178
Citations
Ranking economics departments in Europe: a statistical approach

Luc Bauwens;Alan Kirman;Michel Lubrano;Camelia Protopopescu

173
Citations
Equilibria in financial markets with heterogeneous agents: a probabilistic perspective

Hans Föllmer;Ulrich Horst;Alan Kirman

165
Citations
Learning and Rationality in Economics

A. P. Kirman;Mark H. Salmon

116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David Colander Middlebury College

Mauro Gallegati Marche Polytechnic University

Thomas Lux Kiel University

Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich

Peter Howitt Brown University

William A. Barnett University of Kansas

Luc Bauwens Université Catholique de Louvain

Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University

Jochen Hinkel Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Alberte Bondeau Aix-Marseille University

External Links

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