2026 Giovanni L. Violante: 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	62	735	663	461	407	185	22382

Research.com Recognitions

2016 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Giovanni L. Violante is a researcher affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their academic work spans multiple areas within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a notable focus on modeling economic behavior and analyzing market dynamics.

The main fields of study covered in their research include:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance

The subfields within these areas where their contributions are concentrated are:

Economics and Econometrics
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Finance
Sociology and Political Science
Accounting

Violante's research covers a range of topics, including:

Housing Market and Economics
Economic theories and models
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Income, Poverty, and Inequality
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Violante demonstrate contributions to key areas of economic analysis. These include:

The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence, 2020, published in Journal of Political Economy
The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models, 2022, published in Annual Review of Economics
Household balance sheet channels of monetary policy: A back of the envelope calculation for the euro area, 2020, published in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
And Yet It Moves: Intergenerational Mobility in Italy, 2022, published in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Non-durable consumption and housing net worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from easily accessible data, 2020, published in Journal of Public Economics

Frequent collaborators in Violante's body of work include:

Greg Kaplan
Jiří Slačálek
Oreste Tristani
Jonathan Heathcote
Adrien Bilal

The venues where Violante's research has most often appeared are:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Review of Economic Dynamics
Econometrica
Journal of Political Economy
Annual Review of Economics

Violante was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2016, an honor reflecting a position within the community engaged in econometric research.

Best Publications

Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: A macroeconomic analysis

Per Krusell;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;José Víctor Ríos-Rull;Giovanni L. Violante

2889
Citations
Monetary Policy According to HANK

Greg Kaplan;Benjamin Moll;Giovanni L. Violante

1818
Citations
Unequal We Stand: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in the United States, 1967-2006 *

Jonathan Heathcote;Jonathan Heathcote;Fabrizio Perri;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

1324
Citations
A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante

1234
Citations
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

924
Citations
Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

824
Citations
Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

797
Citations
The wealthy hand-to-mouth

Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante;Justin Weidner

767
Citations
Quantitative macroeconomics with heterogeneous households

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni Violante

615
Citations
The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence

Greg Kaplan;Kurt Mitman;Giovanni L. Violante

584
Citations
Investment-specific technical change in the United States (1947-2000): Measurement and macroeconomic consequences

Jason G. Cummins;Giovanni L. Violante

572
Citations
Consumption and labor supply with partial insurance: An analytical framework

Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

518
Citations
Deunionization, Technical Change and Inequality

Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Giovanni L Violante

516
Citations
Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment

Andreas Hornstein;Per Krusell;Giovanni L Violante

495
Citations
How Much Consumption Insurance beyond Self-Insurance?

Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante

488
Citations
Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

471
Citations
The Effects of Technical Change on Labor Market Inequalities

Andreas Hornstein;Per Krusell;Giovanni L. Violante

414
Citations
Cross-sectional facts for macroeconomists ✩

Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Dirk Krueger;Fabrizio Perri;Luigi Pistaferri;Luigi Pistaferri;Luigi Pistaferri;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

339
Citations
Technological Acceleration, Skill Transferability, and the Rise in Residual Inequality

Giovanni L. Violante

324
Citations
Skill-Biased Technical Change

Giovanni L. Violante

301
Citations
Education Policy and Intergenerational Transfers in Equilibrium

Brant Abbott;Giovanni Gallipoli;Costas Meghir;Giovanni L. Violante

283
Citations
Education policy and intergenerational transfers in equilibrium

Brant Abbott;Giovanni Gallipoli;Costas Meghir;Giovanni L. Violante

263
Citations
THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF SEVERANCE PAYMENTS WITH WAGE RIGIDITIES

Pietro Garibaldi;Giovanni L. Violante

261
Citations
Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a macroeconomic analysis

Per Krusell;Lee Ohanian;Lee Ohanian;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull;Giovanni Violante

146
Citations
Deunionization, technical change, and inequality

G Violante;D Acemoglu;P Aghion

3
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota

Per Krusell Stockholm University

Greg Kaplan University of Chicago

Fabrizio Perri Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Orazio Attanasio Yale University

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania

Costas Meghir Yale University

Luigi Pistaferri Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Giovanni L. Violante Google Scholar page

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