2026 Eytan Sheshinski: 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	40	2292	2071	15	12	145	7239

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

2292

2071

145

7239

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
1984 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1971 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Eytan Sheshinski is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans multiple fields including Business, Management and Accounting, Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Health Professions. The subfields of their work encompass Accounting, General Health Professions, Economics and Econometrics, Demography, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Sheshinski's research topics include:

Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Global Health Care Issues
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Natural Resources and Economic Development
State Capitalism and Financial Governance
Intellectual Property and Patents

The scientist has contributed to several recent papers, such as:

Social Security and the Increasing Longevity Gap (2020), Journal of Public Economic Theory
Toward a Sustainable Pension System (2022), The Journal of Retirement
Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal
The Subtlety of Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality (2024), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors have included:

Charles F. Manski
Robert J. Strom
William J. Baumöl
Frank Caliendo
Ido Kallir

Sheshinski's work has appeared in various publication venues, including:

Journal of Public Economic Theory
The Journal of Retirement
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has published books with Princeton University Press. Titles include The Economic Theory of Annuities (2021) and Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of the Free-Enterprise Economies (2021).

Throughout their career, they have received several awards such as:

Fellows of the Econometric Society (1971)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984)
Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association (2011)

Best Publications

Inflation and costs of price adjustment

Eytan Sheshinski;Yoram Weiss

1046
Citations
Resilience in natural and socioeconomic systems

Simon A. Levin;Scott Barrett;Sara Aniyar;William Baumol

519
Citations
Optimal Redistributive Taxation When Individual Welfare Depends upon Relative Income

Michael J. Boskin;Eytan Sheshinski

491
Citations
The Optimal Linear Income-tax

Eytan Sheshinski

376
Citations
Privatization and Its Benefits: Theory and Evidence

Eytan Sheshinski;Luis F. López-Calva

346
Citations
Price, Quality and Quantity Regulation in Monopoly Situations.

Eytan Sheshinski

303
Citations
Externalities and compulsary vaccinations

Dagobert L. Brito;Eytan Sheshinski;Michael D. Intriligator

266
Citations
Optimum Pricing Policy under Stochastic Inflation

Eytan Sheshinski;Yoram Weiss

255
Citations
Optimal Tax Treatment of the Family: Married Couples

Michael J. Boskin;Eytan Sheshinski

235
Citations
Tests of the "Learning by Doing" Hypothesis

Eytan Sheshinski

196
Citations
Relation between a social welfare function and the gini index of income inequality

Eytan Sheshinski

187
Citations
A Model of Social Security and Retirement Decisions

Eytan Sheshinski

180
Citations
Economic aspects of optimal disability benefits

Peter A. Diamond;Eytan Sheshinski

173
Citations
Uncertainty and Optimal Social Security Systems

Eytan Sheshinski;Yoram Weiss

170
Citations
Inflation and Taxes in a Growing Economy with Debt and Equity Finance

Martin Feldstein;Jerry Green;Eytan Sheshinski

166
Citations
The Economic Theory of Annuities

Eytan Sheshinski

136
Citations
Demand fluctuations, capacity utilisation and costs

Jacques Dreze;E. Sheshinski

126
Citations
The Nature and Implications of the Reswitching of Techniques

Michael Bruno;Edwin Burmeister;Eytan Sheshinski

118
Citations
Optimum vs. Equilibrium Land Use Pattern and Congestion Toll

Yitzhak Oron;David Pines;Eytan Sheshinski

83
Citations
Optimal pricing, inflation, and the cost of price adjustment

Eytan Sheshinski;Yoram Weiss

72
Citations
Balanced Growth and Stability in the Johansen Vintage Model

E. Sheshinski

70
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yoram Weiss Tel Aviv University

Michael J. Boskin Stanford University

Martin Feldstein Harvard University

David Pines Santa Fe Institute

Vito Tanzi Independent Scientist / Consultant, US

William J. Baumol New York University

Jacques H. Dreze Université Catholique de Louvain

Ing-Marie Gren Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University

Karl-Göran Mäler Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

External Links

Personal website of Eytan Sheshinski

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