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Athanasios Orphanides

Athanasios Orphanides

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
65
Citations
28397
World Ranking
586
National Ranking
379

Overview

Athanasios Orphanides is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of 31 publications. Their research primarily spans the subfields of Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The scholar's work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • European Monetary and Fiscal Policies
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

Orphanides has published papers in various venues, with frequent contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, where four papers have appeared. Other venues with their work include the Journal of Financial Economics, Southern Economic Journal, edoc (University of Basel), and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Recent publications include:

  • "Enhancing resilience with natural growth targeting," 2025, Southern Economic Journal
  • "The Fiscal Dimension of Monetary Policy and Central Bank Autonomy: Lessons from Two Crises," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Taming Inflation Scares," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The term structure and inflation uncertainty," 2020, Journal of Financial Economics
  • "Options for the ECB's Monetary Policy Strategy Review," 2020, edoc (University of Basel)

Their work often involves collaboration with a select group of coauthors, including Yvan Lengwiler, Tomas Breach, Stefania D'Amico, John C. Williams, and Olivier Blanchard. Yvan Lengwiler stands out as a frequent collaborator with three joint publications.

Orphanides' research addresses critical issues in monetary policy and its economic impacts, with an emphasis also on the interaction between fiscal policies and banking regulation. Topics such as inflation uncertainty, central bank autonomy, and policy strategies within the European context form a significant part of their scholarly investigations.

Best Publications

  • Monetary Policy Rules Based on Real-Time Data

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • The Unreliability of Output Gap Estimates in Real Time

    Athanasios Orphanides;Simon van Norden

  • Monetary policy rules based on real-time data

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Historical monetary policy analysis and the Taylor rule

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Monetary policy evaluation with noisy information

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • The quest for prosperity without inflation

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Monetary Policy Rules, Macroeconomic Stability, and Inflation: A View from the Trenches

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • The Macroeconomic Consequences of Terrorism

    Stephen Blomberg;Gregory Hess;Athanasios Orphanides

  • Historical monetary policy analysis and the Taylor rule

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Robust Monetary Policy Rules with Unknown Natural Rates

    Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

  • Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy

    Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

  • Term Structure Estimation with Survey Data on Interest Rate Forecasts

    Don H. Kim;Athanasios Orphanides

  • The decline of activist stabilization policy: natural rate misperceptions, learning, and expectations

    Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

  • The macroeconomic consequences of terrorism

    S.Brock Blomberg;Gregory D Hess;Athanasios Orphanides

  • Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy

    Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

  • Rational Addiction with Learning and Regret

    Athanasios Orphanides;David Zervos

  • Historical Monetary Policy Analysis and the Taylor Rule

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  • Monetary policy rules, macroeconomic stability and inflation: a view from the trenches

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Robust monetary policy rules with unknown natural rates

    Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

  • Monetary policy rules and the Great Inflation

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Monetary-Policy Rules and the Great Inflation

    Athanasios Orphanides

  • Inflation, Volatility and Growth

    Ruth Judson;Athanasios Orphanides

  • Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero

    Guenter Coenen;Athanasios Orphanides;Volker Wieland

  • The Reliability of Inflation Forecasts Based on Output Gap Estimates in Real Time

    Athanasios Orphanides;Simon Van Norden;Simon Van Norden;Simon Van Norden

  • War Politics: An Economic, Rational-Voter Framework

    Gregory D Hess;Athanasios Orphanides

  • Monetary Policy When the Nominal Short-Term Interest Rate is Zero

    James Clouse;Dale Henderson;Athanasios Orphanides;David H. Small

  • Term Structure Estimation with Survey Data on Interest Rate Forecasts

    Don H. Kim;Athanasios Orphanides

Frequent Co-Authors

John C. Williams
John C. Williams Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Michael D. Bordo
Michael D. Bordo Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Volker Wieland
Volker Wieland Goethe University Frankfurt
Gregory D. Hess
Gregory D. Hess Wabash College
Charles W. Calomiris
Charles W. Calomiris Columbia University
John B. Taylor
John B. Taylor Stanford University
Ben S. Bernanke
Ben S. Bernanke Brookings Institution
Bennett T. McCallum
Bennett T. McCallum Carnegie Mellon University
Alan S. Blinder
Alan S. Blinder Princeton University

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