2026 Ben S. Bernanke: 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	96	125	113	95	84	650	114801

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2020 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
2020 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
2015 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1999 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1997 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1983 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Ben S. Bernanke is affiliated with the Brookings Institution in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans several subfields including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their research topics cover a broad range of economic issues, with particular focus on:

Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Economic Theory and Policy
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Innovation Diffusion and Forecasting
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Bernanke has published papers in several academic venues, frequently appearing in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
American Economic Review
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

Recent notable publications include:

The New Tools of Monetary Policy (2020), American Economic Review
Risk Appetite and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy (2023), The Journal of Economic Perspectives
What caused the US pandemic-era inflation? (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal
Nobel Lecture: Banking, Credit, and Economic Fluctuations (2023), American Economic Review
An Analysis of Pandemic-Era Inflation in 11 Economies (2024), SSRN Electronic Journal

Their collaborative work includes frequent partnerships with the following co-authors:

Olivier Blanchard
Timothy F. Geithner
Henry M. Paulson
Michael D. Bauer
Eric Milstein

In addition to articles, Bernanke has published books, including "Essays on the Great Depression" (2024) with Princeton University Press.

Their professional recognitions feature:

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2020)
Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2020)
Fellow of the American Finance Association (2015)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999)
Fellows of the Econometric Society (1997)
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1983)

Best Publications

The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Simon Gilchrist

17107
Citations
The Financial Accelerator in a Quantitative Business Cycle Framework

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark Gertler;Simon Gilchrist

8404
Citations
Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler

8219
Citations
Agency Costs, Collateral, and Business Fluctuations

Ben S Bernanke;Mark Gertler

7656
Citations
The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

Ben Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark Gertler;Simon Gilchrist;Simon Gilchrist

7404
Citations
Agency Costs, Collateral, and Business Fluctuations

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark Gertler

7385
Citations
Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations.

Mark Gertler;Ben Bernanke

5941
Citations
Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility

Ben Bernanke;Mark Gertler

5797
Citations
Irreversibility, Uncertainty, and Cyclical Investment

Ben S. Bernanke

5010
Citations
Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression

Ben Bernanke

4809
Citations
Non-Monetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in the Propagation of the Great Depression

Ben S. Bernanke

4740
Citations
Alternative Explanations of the Money-Income Correlation

Ben Bernanke

4009
Citations
The Federal funds rate and the channels of monetary transmission

Ben Bernanke

3984
Citations
The Financial Accelerator and the Flight to Quality

Ben Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark Gertler;Simon Gilchrist;Simon Gilchrist

3585
Citations
Inflation Targeting: A New Framework for Monetary Policy?

Ben Bernanke;Frederic Mishkin

3566
Citations
What Explains the Stock Market's Reaction to Federal Reserve Policy?

Ben S. Bernanke;Ben S. Bernanke;Kenneth N. Kuttner;Kenneth N. Kuttner

3284
Citations
Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience

Ben S. Bernanke;Thomas Laubach;Frederic S. Mishkin;Adam S. Posen

3150
Citations
Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy: A Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregressive (FAVAR) Approach

Ben S. Bernanke;Jean Boivin;Piotr Eliasz

3082
Citations
Measuring Monetary Policy

Ben S. Bernanke;Ilian Mihov

3035
Citations
Nonmonetary Effects of the Financial Crisis in Propagation of the Great Depression

Ben S. Bernanke

2862
Citations
Chapter 21 The financial accelerator in a quantitative business cycle framework

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Simon Gilchrist

2824
Citations
Financial Fragility and Economic Performance

Ben Bernanke;Mark Gertler

2792
Citations
Monetary Policy and Asset Price Volatility

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark Gertler

2535
Citations
Alternative Explanations of the Money-Income Correlation

Ben S. Bernanke

2455
Citations
Systematic monetary policy and the effects of oil price shocks

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark W. Watson

2311
Citations
The Credit Crunch

Ben S. Bernanke;Cara S. Lown;Benjamin M. Friedman

1981
Citations
Credit, Money, and Aggregate Demand

Ben Bernanke;Alan Blinder

1888
Citations
Inflation Forecasts and Monetary Policy

Ben S Bernanke;Michael Woodford

1719
Citations
Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound: An Empirical Assessment

Ben S. Bernanke;Vincent R. Reinhart;Brian P. Sack

1551
Citations
Should Central Banks Respond to Movements in Asset Prices

Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler

1517
Citations
What Does Monetary Policy Do

Eric M. Leeper;Christopher A. Sims;Tao Zha

1469
Citations
The Federal Funds Rate and the Channels of Monetary Transnission

Ben S. Bernanke;Alan S. Blinder;Alan S. Blinder

656
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Gertler New York University

Julio J. Rotemberg Harvard University

Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University

Kenneth Rogoff Harvard University

Michael Woodford Columbia University

Simon Gilchrist New York University

Alan S. Blinder Princeton University

Kenneth N. Kuttner Williams College

Henning Bohn University of California, Santa Barbara

Benjamin M. Friedman Harvard University

External Links

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