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42
Citations
10799
World Ranking
2030
National Ranking
1180

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Harold L. Cole is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, encompassing 53 publications in these fields.

The subfields of study covered by Cole include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Accounting
  • Strategy and Management

Cole's work addresses several main topics, among them:

  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Recent publications illustrate a focus on sovereign debt and crisis dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • "Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Economy
  • "Information Spillovers and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets the Eurozone Crisis" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Economy (with coauthor Mark Aguiar)
  • "Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises, Revisited" (2020), classified as a working paper
  • "Asymmetric Information and Sovereign Debt: Theory Meets Mexican Data" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Cole has published extensively in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Working paper
  • Review of Economic Dynamics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Daniel Neuhann
  • Guillermo Ordóñez
  • Mark Aguiar
  • Satyajit Chatterjee
  • Zachary Stangebye

Cole has contributed to book publications as well, with a title published by Oxford University Press: "Monetary and Fiscal Policy through a DSGE Lens" (2020).

An acknowledgment of their professional recognition includes being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Commodity trade and international risk sharing: How much do financial markets matter?

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld

  • Self-Fulfilling Debt Crises

    Harold L. Cole;Timothy J. Kehoe

  • Social Norms, Savings Behavior, and Growth

    Harold L. Cole;George J. Mailath;Andrew Postlewaite

  • New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis

    Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian

  • A self-fulfilling model of Mexico's 1994–1995 debt crisis

    Harold L. Cole;Timothy J. Kehoe;Timothy J. Kehoe

  • Commodity trade and international risk sharing

    Harold L. Cole;Maurice Obstfeld

  • The Great Depression in the United States From A Neoclassical Perspective

    Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Can the Mortensen-Pissarides Matching Model Match the Business-Cycle Facts?

    Harold L. Cole;Richard Rogerson

  • Default, Settlement, and Signalling--Lending Resumption in a Reputational Model of Sovereign Debt

    Harold I Cole;James Dow;William B English

  • Latin America in the rearview mirror

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Alvaro Riascos;James A. Schmitz

  • Efficient Allocations with Hidden Income and Hidden Storage

    Harold L. Cole;Narayana R. Kocherlakota

  • Models of sovereign debt: Partial versus general reputations

    Harold L. Cole;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Valuation equilibrium with Clubs

    Harold L Cole;Edward C Prescott

  • Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises

    Mark Aguiar;Satyajit Chatterjee;Harold Cole;Zachary Stangebye

  • Incorporating Concern for Relative Wealth Into Economic Models

    Harold L. Cole;George J. Mailath;Andrew Postlewaite

  • Quantitative Models of Sovereign Debt Crises

    Mark Aguiar;Satyajit Chatterjee;Harold Cole;Zachary Stangebye

  • Why Doesn't Technology Flow From Rich to Poor Countries?

    Harold L. Cole;Jeremy Greenwood;Juan M. Sanchez

  • ZERO NOMINAL INTEREST RATES: WHY THEY’RE GOOD AND HOW TO GET THEM

    Harold L. Cole;Narayana Kocherlakota

  • Can the Mortonson-Pissarides matching model match the business cycle facts?

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  • Efficient Non-Contractible Investments in Large Economies☆

    Harold Linh Cole;George J. Mailath;Andrew Postlewaite

  • Class systems and the enforcement of social norms

    Harold L. Cole;George J. Mailath;Andrew Postlewaite

  • A Multiplier Approach to Understanding the Macro Implications of Household Finance

    YiLi Chien;Harold Cole;Hanno Lustig

  • Commodity Trade and International Risk Sharing: How Much Do Financial Markets Matter?

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee E. Ohanian
Lee E. Ohanian University of California, Los Angeles
George J. Mailath
George J. Mailath University of Pennsylvania
Hanno Lustig
Hanno Lustig Stanford University
Patrick J. Kehoe
Patrick J. Kehoe Stanford University
Dirk Krueger
Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Postlewaite
Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania
Narayana R. Kocherlakota
Narayana R. Kocherlakota University of Rochester
Mark Aguiar
Mark Aguiar Princeton University
Maurice Obstfeld
Maurice Obstfeld University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Atkeson
Andrew Atkeson University of California, Los Angeles

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