2026 Benjamin M. Friedman: 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	51	1301	1156	787	682	317	17386

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

2311
Citations
The Credit Crunch

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

1981
Citations
Money, Income, Prices and Interest Rates

Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

1081
Citations
Stock Prices and Social Dynamics

Robert J. Shiller

703
Citations
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

561
Citations
Inventory Investment, Internal-Finance Fluctuations, and the Business Cycle

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

539
Citations
The Cost of Annuities: Implications for Saving Behavior and Bequests

Benjamin M. Friedman;Mark J. Warshawsky

535
Citations
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

Benjamin M. Friedman

534
Citations
Stabilization Policy Ten Years After

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

509
Citations
Optimal expectations and the extreme information assumptions of ‘rational expectations’ macromodels

Benjamin M. Friedman

489
Citations
Economic activity and the short-term credit markets: an analysis of prices and quantities

Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

392
Citations
Survey Evidence on The Rationality of Interest Rate Expectations

Benjamin M. Friedman

272
Citations
The Central Role of Credit Crunches in Recent Financial History

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

245
Citations
Targets, instruments, and indicators of monetary policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

236
Citations
A price target for U.S. monetary policy? Lessons from the experience with money growth targets

Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

217
Citations
Handbook of monetary economics

Benjamin M. Friedman;Frank Hahn;Michael Woodford

215
Citations
IMPLEMENTATION OF MONETARY POLICY: HOW DO CENTRAL BANKS SET INTEREST RATES?

Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

204
Citations
Indicator Properties of the Paper—Bill Spread: Lessons from Recent Experience

Benjamin Morton Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

201
Citations
Lessons on Monetary Policy from the 1980s

Benjamin M. Friedman

199
Citations
Another look at the evidence on money-income causality

Benjamin M. Friedman;Kenneth N. Kuttner

194
Citations
Economic Implications of Extraordinary Movements in Stock Prices

Benjamin M Friedman;David I Laibson

177
Citations
Is There a Corporate Debt Crisis

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

175
Citations
Targets and Instruments of Monetary Policy

Benjamin M. Friedman

164
Citations
Financial Flow Variables and the Short-Run Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates

Benjamin Morton Friedman

147
Citations
Corporate Capital Structures in the United States

Benjamin M. Friedman

121
Citations
Stabilization Policy and Private Economic Behavior

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

114
Citations
Why the Federal Reserve Should Not Adopt Inflation Targeting

Benjamin M. Friedman

102
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth N. Kuttner Williams College

James Tobin Yale University

Frank Hahn University of Cambridge

Martin Neil Baily Brookings Institution

Martin Feldstein Harvard University

Mark Gertler New York University

Ben S. Bernanke Brookings Institution

Richard H. Clarida Columbia University

Robert J. Gordon Northwestern University

Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution

External Links

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