2026 Christopher Pissarides: 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	64	617	557	71	65	280	42373

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
2011 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
2010 - Nobel Prize for their analysis of markets with search frictions
2010 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their analysis of markets with search frictions
2005 - IZA Prize in Labor Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor
1997 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Christopher Pissarides is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular emphasis on labor market dynamics and wage inequality. The scientist's work also addresses firm innovation and growth, as well as the economic and epidemiological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics linking economics with public health and technology. Notable papers include:

"Why inequality could spread COVID-19" (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
"Static and Dynamic Inefficiencies in an Optimizing Model of Epidemics" (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Understanding Big Data: Data Calculus in the Digital Era" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Productive Robots and Industrial Employment: The Role of National Innovation Systems" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Inflation, wages and equality: cross-disciplinary conversations" (2023, Journal of the British Academy)

Frequent co-authors with whom Christopher Pissarides has collaborated include:

Pietro Garibaldi
Espen R. Moen
Chrystalla Kapetaniou
Faheem Ahmed
Naeem Ahmed

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, The Lancet Public Health, and the Journal of the British Academy. Other publication venues include the International Economic Review and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Pissarides' main fields of study encompass:

Economics and Econometrics
Modeling and Simulation
Sociology and Political Science
Infectious Diseases
Management of Technology and Innovation

Key research topics addressed in their work include:

Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Firm innovation and growth
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
Economic growth and productivity
COVID-19 pandemic impacts
SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
Entrepreneurship studies and influences

Christopher Pissarides has been recognized with several awards over the course of their career, including:

Nobel Prize in 2010 for analysis of markets with search frictions
Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics in 2010 for the same contribution
IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2005 from the Institute for the Study of Labor
Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1997
Member of Academia Europaea since 2011
Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association since 2011

Best Publications

Equilibrium Unemployment Theory

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

7025
Citations
Equilibrium Unemployment Theory

Christopher A. Pissarides

6899
Citations
Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment

Dale T. Mortensen;Christopher A. Pissarides

5258
Citations
Looking into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function

Barbara Petrongolo;Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

3482
Citations
Equilibrium Unemployment Theory - 2nd Edition

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

1823
Citations
New Developments in Models of Search in the Labour Market

Dale T Mortensen;Christopher Pissarides

1727
Citations
Structural change in a multi-sector model of growth

L. Rachel Ngai;Christopher A. Pissarides

1609
Citations
Short-run equilibrium dynamics of unemployment vacancies, and real wages

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

1445
Citations
Structural Change in a Multi-Sector Model of Growth

Rachel Ngai;Rachel Ngai;Christopher A. Pissarides

1388
Citations
New Developments in Models of Search in the Labor Market

Dale T Mortensen;Christopher Pissarides

1363
Citations
Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, 2nd Edition

Christopher Pissarides

1252
Citations
The unemployment volatility puzzle: is wage stickiness the answer?

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

1002
Citations
Loss of Skill During Unemployment and the Persistence of Employment Shocks

Christopher A. Pissarides

846
Citations
An expenditure-based estimate of Britain's black economy

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides;Guglielmo Weber

615
Citations
Search Unemployment with On-the-job Search

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

599
Citations
Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

568
Citations
Unemployment and Vacancies in Britain

Christopher Pissarides

568
Citations
The impact of employment tax cuts on unemployment and wages : the role of unemployment benefits and tax structure

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides

549
Citations
Unemployment responses to ''skill-biased'' technology shocks: the role of labour market policy

Dale T. Mortensen;Christopher A. Pissarides

539
Citations
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

Barbara Petrongolo;Christopher A. Pissarides

519
Citations
JOB REALLOCATION, EMPLOYMENT FLUCTUATIONS AND UNEMPLOYMENT *

Dale T. Mortensen;Christopher A. Pissarides

510
Citations
Unemployment and the Inter-Regional Mobility of Labour

Christoforos Antoniou Pissarides;Jonathan Wadsworth

484
Citations
Entrepreneurship, Start-Up Costs and Employment

Raquel Fonseca;Paloma Lopez-Garcia;Christopher A Pissarides

480
Citations
Chapter 39 New developments in models of search in the labor market

Dale T. Mortensen;Christopher A. Pissarides

291
Citations
Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment

Dale T. Mortensen;Christopher A. Pissarides

43
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dale T. Mortensen Northwestern University

Jeffrey A. Frankel Harvard University

Barbara Petrongolo London School of Economics and Political Science

Yannis M. Ioannides Tufts University

Dimitri Vayanos London School of Economics and Political Science

Jonathan Wadsworth Royal Holloway University of London

Mary Amiti Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Costas Meghir Yale University

Charles R. Bean London School of Economics and Political Science

Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

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