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D-Index
70
Citations
40389
World Ranking
453
National Ranking
305

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1987 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Douglas Gale is affiliated with New York University in the United States and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans multiple subfields, including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of their work cover Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Global Financial Crisis and Policies, Economic Theory and Policy, and Economic Theories and Models.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Asset Price Booms and Macroeconomic Policy: A Risk-Shifting Approach (2022), published in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • A Comment on Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Monetary Policy and Rational Asset Price Bubbles: Comment (2025), published in American Economic Review

Douglas Gale has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Franklin Allen and Gadi Barlevy, each appearing in multiple publications.

Their work has been disseminated through various academic venues, including:

  • American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • American Economic Review

Among their recognitions, Douglas Gale was awarded Fellow status by the Econometric Society in 1987 and is also recognized as a Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC).

Best Publications

  • Comparing Financial Systems

    Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale;Douglas Gale

  • Incentive-compatible debt contracts: The one-period problem

    Douglas Gale;Martin Hellwig

  • Incentive-Compatible Debt Contracts: The One-Period Problem

    Douglas Gale;Martin Hellwig

  • Competition and financial stability

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Understanding Financial Crises

    Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale;Douglas Gale

  • Optimal Financial Crises

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Bubbles and Crises

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Financial Contagion

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  • Financial Intermediaries and Markets

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Financial Contagion Journal of Political Economy

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Understanding Financial Crises

    Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale;Douglas Gale

  • Rollover Risk and Market Freezes

    Viral V. Acharya;Douglas Gale;Tanju Yorulmazer

  • Limited market participation and volatility of asset prices

    Douglas Gale;Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen

  • Preference shocks, liquidity, and central bank policy

    Sudipto Bhattacharya;Douglas Gale

  • Stock-Price Manipulation

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Financial Markets, Intermediaries, and Intertemporal Smoothing

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Financial innovation and risk sharing

    Franklin Allen;Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale;Douglas Gale

  • Bayesian learning in social networks

    Douglas Gale;Shachar Kariv

  • INFORMATION REVELATION AND STRATEGIC DELAY IN A MODEL OF INVESTMENT

    Christophe Chamley;Douglas Gale

  • On Optimal Development in a Multi-Sector Economy

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  • Financial innovation and risk sharing

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  • Interbank Market Liquidity and Central Bank Intervention

    Franklin Allen;Elena Carletti;Douglas Gale

  • Diversity of Opinion and Financing of New Technologies

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

  • Consistency and heterogeneity of individual behavior under uncertainty

    Syngjoo Choi;Raymond Fisman;Douglas Gale;Shachar Kariv

  • Financial Fragility, Liquidity and Asset Prices

    Franklin Allen;Douglas Gale

Frequent Co-Authors

Franklin Allen
Franklin Allen Imperial College London
Martin Hellwig
Martin Hellwig Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Elena Carletti
Elena Carletti Bocconi University
Raymond Fisman
Raymond Fisman Boston University
Xavier Vives
Xavier Vives University of Navarra
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya New York University
Frank Smets
Frank Smets European Central Bank
Oliver Hart
Oliver Hart Harvard University
Thomas R. Palfrey
Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge

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