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Benjamin M. Friedman

Benjamin M. Friedman

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
51
Citations
17386
World Ranking
1301
National Ranking
787

Benjamin M. Friedman publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin M. Friedman sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 317 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Benjamin M. Friedman D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin M. Friedman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Benjamin M. Friedman is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research is predominantly situated in the field of Mathematics, with a particular focus on several subfields including Computational Theory and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their work covers a range of advanced mathematical topics such as:

  • Commutative Algebra and Its Applications
  • Polynomial and algebraic computation
  • Advanced Graph Theory Research
  • Geometry and complex manifolds
  • Advanced Algebra and Geometry
  • Advanced Topics in Algebra
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics

Among their recent papers are:

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (2024), published in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge
  • Girth Conditions and Rota's Basis Conjecture (2023), published in Graphs and Combinatorics
  • A SAT Attack on Rota's Basis Conjecture (2022), published by Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Jacob Soll: Free market: the history of an idea (2023), published in Business Economics
  • Gromov-Hausdorff continuity of non-Kähler Calabi-Yau conifold transitions (2024), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Sean McGuinness
  • Sébastien Picard
  • Caleb Suan

Publications have appeared in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge
  • Graphs and Combinatorics
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Business Economics

Benjamin M. Friedman was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Systematic monetary policy and the effects of oil price shocks

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

  • The Credit Crunch

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

  • Money, Income, Prices and Interest Rates

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Stock Prices and Social Dynamics

    Robert J. Shiller

  • The Transformation of the U.S. Banking Industry: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been

    Allen N. Berger;Anil K Kashyap;Joseph M. Scalise;Mark Gertler

  • Inventory Investment, Internal-Finance Fluctuations, and the Business Cycle

    Robert E. Carpenter;Steven M. Fazzari;Bruce C. Petersen;Anil K. Kashyap

  • The Cost of Annuities: Implications for Saving Behavior and Bequests

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Mark J. Warshawsky

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Stabilization Policy Ten Years After

    James Tobin;Edmund S. Phelps;William Poole;Martin Feldstein

  • Optimal expectations and the extreme information assumptions of ‘rational expectations’ macromodels

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Economic activity and the short-term credit markets: an analysis of prices and quantities

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Survey Evidence on The Rationality of Interest Rate Expectations

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • The Central Role of Credit Crunches in Recent Financial History

    Albert M. Wojnilower;Benjamin M. Friedman;Franco Modigliani

  • Targets, instruments, and indicators of monetary policy

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • A price target for U.S. monetary policy? Lessons from the experience with money growth targets

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Handbook of monetary economics

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Frank Hahn;Michael Woodford

  • IMPLEMENTATION OF MONETARY POLICY: HOW DO CENTRAL BANKS SET INTEREST RATES?

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Indicator Properties of the Paper—Bill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experience

    Benjamin Morton Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Lessons on Monetary Policy from the 1980s

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Another look at the evidence on money-income causality

    Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

  • Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices

    Benjamin M Friedman;David I Laibson

  • Is There a Corporate Debt Crisis

    Ben S. Bernanke;John Y. Campbell;Benjamin M. Friedman;Lawrence H. Summers

  • Targets and Instruments of Monetary Policy

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Financial Flow Variables and the Short-Run Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates

    Benjamin Morton Friedman

  • Corporate Capital Structures in the United States

    Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Stabilization Policy and Private Economic Behavior

    Martin Neil Baily;Edmund S. Phelps;Benjamin M. Friedman

  • Why the Federal Reserve Should Not Adopt Inflation Targeting

    Benjamin M. Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth N. Kuttner
Kenneth N. Kuttner Williams College
James Tobin
James Tobin Yale University
Frank Hahn
Frank Hahn University of Cambridge
Martin Neil Baily
Martin Neil Baily Brookings Institution
Martin Feldstein
Martin Feldstein Harvard University
Mark Gertler
Mark Gertler New York University
Ben S. Bernanke
Ben S. Bernanke Brookings Institution
Richard H. Clarida
Richard H. Clarida Columbia University
Robert J. Gordon
Robert J. Gordon Northwestern University
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution

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