2026 Esfandiar Maasoumi: 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	32	3420	3112	1843	1624	145	5409

Esfandiar Maasoumi 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 Esfandiar Maasoumi sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 145 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Esfandiar Maasoumi 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 Esfandiar Maasoumi sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 32 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% 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

2011 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Esfandiar Maasoumi is a researcher affiliated with Emory University in the United States. Their primary field of work encompasses Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus across several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research topics cover a range of areas largely within financial markets and economic dynamics. Key topics include Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Income, Poverty, and Inequality, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, Stock Market Forecasting Methods, and Risk and Portfolio Optimization.

Maasoumi's publication record features contributions in numerous venues, notably:

Econometric Reviews
SSRN Electronic Journal
Empirical Economics
Journal of Applied Econometrics
Journal of Econometrics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maasoumi include:

"RETRACTED ARTICLE: Green innovations and patenting renewable energy technologies" (2020), published in Empirical Economics
"Identifying factors via automatic debiased machine learning" (2024), in the Journal of Applied Econometrics
"Contrasting Cryptocurrencies with Other Assets: Full Distributions and the COVID Impact" (2021), Journal of risk and financial management

Although not the lead author, another relevant paper in which Maasoumi is associated is "Generalized aggregation of misspecified models: With an application to asset pricing" (2020), published in the Journal of Econometrics.

Common co-authors collaborating with Maasoumi include:

Sofia Anyfantaki
Ke Wu
Zhijie Xiao
Almas Heshmati
Inhee Lee

In recognition of their professional contributions, Maasoumi was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2011.

Best Publications

Consistent Testing for Stochastic Dominance under General Sampling Schemes

Oliver Linton;Esfandiar Maasoumi;Yoon-Jae Whang

722
Citations
The Measurement and Decomposition of Multi-Dimensional Inequality

Esfandiar Maasoumi

650
Citations
Entropy and predictability of stock market returns

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Jeff Racine

396
Citations
A compendium to information theory in economics and econometrics

Esfandiar Maasoumi

239
Citations
Growth and convergence : A profile of distribution dynamics and mobility

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Jeff Racine;Thanasis Stengos

234
Citations
Ordering univariate distributions by entropy and variance

Nader Ebrahimi;Esfandiar Maasoumi;Ehsan S. Soofi

198
Citations
A nonparametric test for equality of distributions with mixed categorical and continuous data

Qi Li;Qi Li;Esfandiar Maasoumi;Jeffrey S. Racine

191
Citations
Multidimensioned Approaches to Welfare Analysis

Esfandiar Maasoumi

186
Citations
Multivariate Measures of Well-Being and an Analysis of Inequality in the Michigan Data

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Gerald Nickelsburg

167
Citations
Cluster analysis for measuring welfare and quality of life across countries

Joseph G. Hirschberg;Esfandiar Maasoumi;Daniel J. Slottje

147
Citations
The Information Basis of Multivariate Poverty Assessments

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Maria Ana Lugo

123
Citations
Comparing Income Mobility in Germany and the United States Using Generalized Entropy Mobility Measures

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Mark Trede

117
Citations
Stochastic dominance amongst swedish income distributions

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Almas Heshmati

111
Citations
A class of generalized measures of mobility with applications

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Sourushe Zandvakili

108
Citations
Empirical Analyses of Inequality and Welfare

Esfandiar Maasoumi

95
Citations
A versatile and robust metric entropy test of time-reversibility, and other hypotheses

Jeffrey S. Racine;Esfandiar Maasoumi

80
Citations
Economic Reform, Growth and Convergence in China

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Le Wang

77
Citations
Artificial neural networks for some macroeconomic series: A first report

E Maasoumi;A Khotanzed;A Abaye

75
Citations
On the behavior of inconsistent instrumental variable estimators

Esfandiar Maasoumi;Peter C.B. Phillips

75
Citations
A Modified Stein-like Estimator for the Reduced Form Coefficients of Simultaneous Equations

Esfandiar Maasoumi

61
Citations
Continuously distributed attributes and measures of multivariate inequality

Esfandiar Maasoumi

30
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey S. Racine McMaster University

Almas Heshmati Jönköping University

Michael McAleer Erasmus University Rotterdam

Oliver Linton University of Cambridge

Daniel L. Millimet Southern Methodist University

Clive W. J. Granger University of California, San Diego

Vance L. Martin University of Melbourne

Neil R. Ericsson George Washington University

Peter C. B. Phillips Yale University

Lei Jiang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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