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Citations
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National Ranking
1295

Overview

Greg Kaplan is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and works within the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their research spans a variety of topics, with a significant focus on economic theories, housing markets, monetary policy, and labor market dynamics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, and Demography.

Greg Kaplan's main research topics include:

  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Economic theories and models
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

The scientist has published frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • The Review of Economic Studies

Recent research papers by Greg Kaplan include:

  • The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence, 2020, Journal of Political Economy
  • The Marginal Propensity to Consume in Heterogeneous Agent Models, 2022, Annual Review of Economics
  • Non-durable consumption and housing net worth in the Great Recession: Evidence from easily accessible data, 2020, Journal of Public Economics

Greg Kaplan has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors. Notable frequent collaborators include:

  • Giovanni L. Violante
  • Andreas Fuster
  • Basit Zafar
  • Brian Livingston
  • Fatih Guvenen

The body of work by Greg Kaplan reflects an engaged research profile in economics, covering multiple topical areas related to financial behavior, housing, and policy impact. Their publications address both theoretical and empirical questions in the discipline, contributing to a broad understanding of economic dynamics in contemporary contexts.

Best Publications

  • Monetary Policy According to HANK

    Greg Kaplan;Benjamin Moll;Giovanni L. Violante

  • A Model of the Consumption Response to Fiscal Stimulus Payments

    Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante

  • The wealthy hand-to-mouth

    Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante;Justin Weidner

  • The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence

    Greg Kaplan;Kurt Mitman;Giovanni L. Violante

  • How Much Consumption Insurance beyond Self-Insurance?

    Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L. Violante

  • Moving Back Home: Insurance against Labor Market Risk

    Greg Kaplan

  • Understanding the Long-Run Decline in Interstate Migration

    Greg Kaplan;Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

  • THE MORPHOLOGY OF PRICE DISPERSION

    Greg Kaplan;Guido Menzio

  • SHOPPING EXTERNALITIES AND SELF-FULFILLING UNEMPLOYMENT FLUCTUATIONS

    Greg Kaplan;Guido Menzio

  • When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality

    Se Hyoun Ahn;Greg Kaplan;Benjamin Moll;Thomas Winberry

  • Microeconomic Heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Shocks

    Greg Kaplan;Giovanni L Violante

  • Inflation at the household level

    Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

  • Inequality and the life cycle

    Greg Kaplan

  • The Housing Boom and Bust: Model Meets Evidence

    Greg Kaplan;Kurt Mitman;Kurt Mitman;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

  • What Would You Do With $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News and Loans

    Andreas Fuster;Greg Kaplan;Basit Zafar

  • The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S

    Greg Kaplan;Benjamin Moll;Giovanni L. Violante

  • The Great Lockdown and the Big Stimulus: Tracing the Pandemic Possibility Frontier for the U.S

    Greg Kaplan;Benjamin Moll;Giovanni L Violante

  • Interstate Migration Has Fallen Less Than You Think: Consequences of Hot Deck Imputation in the Current Population Survey

    Greg Kaplan;Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

  • UNDERSTANDING THE LONG-RUN DECLINE IN INTERSTATE MIGRATION: DECLINE IN INTERSTATE MIGRATION

    Greg Kaplan;Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

  • Lifetime Incomes in the United States over Six Decades

    Fatih Guvenen;Greg Kaplan;Jae Song;Justin Weidner

  • Some unpleasant markup arithmetic: Production function elasticities and their estimation from production data

    Steve Bond;Arshia Hashemi;Greg Kaplan;Greg Kaplan;Piotr Zoch

  • HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING REFORMS IN ENGLAND: THE DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS AND THE SHIFTING BALANCE OF COSTS*

    Lorraine Dearden;Emla Fitzsimons;Alissa Goodman;Greg Kaplan

  • Higher education funding reforms in England: the distributional effects and the shifting balance of costs

    Lorraine Dearden;Emla Fitzsimons;Alissa Goodman;Greg Kaplan

  • The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor: Gender Differences among Top Earners, 1981–2012

    Fatih Guvenen;Greg Kaplan;Jae Song

  • What Would You Do with $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News and Loans

    Andreas Fuster;Andreas Fuster;Greg Kaplan;Basit Zafar

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni L. Violante
Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University
Lorraine Dearden
Lorraine Dearden University College London
Ian Walker
Ian Walker Lancaster University
Basit Zafar
Basit Zafar University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania
Stephen Bond
Stephen Bond University of Oxford
Roger B. Myerson
Roger B. Myerson University of Chicago
Robert H. Topel
Robert H. Topel University of Chicago
Frank Windmeijer
Frank Windmeijer University of Bristol
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford

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