2026 Gerald Epstein: 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	34	3066	2783	1686	1483	177	6429

Overview

Gerald Epstein is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a total of 26 publications in this main field of study. Epstein's work spans several subfields, including general economics, econometrics and finance, finance, economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, and general health professions.

They have published extensively on topics related to economic theory and policy, global financial crisis and policies, banking stability, regulation and efficiency, monetary policy and economic impact, fiscal policy and economic growth, housing, finance and neoliberalism, and political economy and Marxism.

Gerald Epstein has contributed to various academic venues, most notably the Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst), where eight of their publications appear. Other publication venues include RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Economic Modelling, and the Review of Radical Political Economics.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Epstein include:

Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development, 2022, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Threat Effects and the Internationalization of Production, 2022, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Proposals for Effectively Regulating the U.S. Financial System to Avoid Yet Another Meltdown, 2021, RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
Individual Country Technical notes For: Trends In The Rentier Income Share In OECD Countries, 1960-2000, 2022, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
The Correlates of Rentier Returns in OECD Countries, 2022, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Their frequent collaborators include James M. Burke, James Crotty, Dorothy Power, Matthew Abrena, and Arjun Jayadev.

Best Publications

Financialization and the World Economy

Gerald A. Epstein

1508
Citations
Capital Management Techniques in Developing Countries: An Assessment of Experiences from the 1990's and Lessons for the Future

Gerald Epstein;Ilene Grabel;Jomo Kwame Sundaram

338
Citations
The Rise of Rentier Incomes in OECD Countries: Financialization, Central Bank Policy and Labor Solidarity

Arjun Jayadev;Gerald Epstein

226
Citations
Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries

Gerald A. Epstein

202
Citations
Globalization and progressive economic policy

Dean Baker;Gerald A. Epstein;Robert Pollin

188
Citations
World Investment Report, 1999

Gerald Epstein

167
Citations
Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932

Gerald Epstein;Thomas Ferguson

129
Citations
Capital Management Techniques in Developing Countries: Managing Capital Flows in Malaysia, India, and China

Gerald Epstein;Ilene Grabel;K. S. Jomo

125
Citations
Inflation targeting, employment creation and economic development: assessing the impacts and policy alternatives

Gerald Epstein;Erinc Yeldan

122
Citations
Capital Management Techniques In Developing Countries: An Assessment of Experiences from the 1990's and Lessons For the Future

Gerald Epstein;Ilene Grabel

111
Citations
An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa

Robert Pollin;Gerald Epstein;James Heintz;Léonce Ndikumana

102
Citations
Rentier incomes and financial crises: An empirical examination of trends and cycles in some OECD countries

Gerald Epstein;Dorothy Power

93
Citations
Regulating global capital flows for long-run development

Amar Bhattacharya;Mark Blyth;Leonardo Burlamaqui;Gerald Epstein

92
Citations
Beyond Inflation Targeting: Assessing the Impacts and Policy Alternatives

Gerald A. Epstein;A. Erinç Yeldan

91
Citations
Multinational corporations in the neo-liberal regime

James Crotty;Gerald Epstein;Patricia Kelly

89
Citations
Political Economy and Comparative Central Banking

Gerald Epstein

82
Citations
Central Banks as Agents of Economic Development

Gerald A. Epstein

82
Citations
Bargaining Power and Foreign Direct Investment in China: Can 1.3 Billion Consumers Tame the Multinationals?

Elissa Braunstein;Gerald Epstein

78
Citations
Dangerous interconnectedness: economists' conflicts of interest, ideology and financial crisis

Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth;Gerald A. Epstein

78
Citations
Financialization, rentier interests and central bank policy

Gerald Epstein

60
Citations
Macroeconomic Policy after the Conservative Era

Gerald A. Epstein;Herbert Gintis

34
Citations
Macroeconomic policy after the conservative era : studies in investment, saving and finance

Gerald A. Epstein;Herbert Gintis

23
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliet B. Schor Boston College

Léonce Ndikumana University of Massachusetts Amherst

Herbert Gintis Santa Fe Institute

José Antonio Ocampo Columbia University

Dani Rodrik Harvard University

Dilip Mookherjee Boston University

Robert Hunter Wade London School of Economics and Political Science

Abhijit Banerjee MIT

Arvind Subramanian Center for Global Development

James K. Boyce University of Massachusetts Amherst

External Links

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