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66
Citations
29172
World Ranking
559
National Ranking
362

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1992 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Jess Benhabib is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research intersects various domains within economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular focus on economic theories and models, economic theory and policy, economic growth and productivity, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, financial markets and investment strategies, firm innovation and growth, and fiscal policy and economic growth.

Their scholarly output includes numerous papers published in respected academic journals and venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation: A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier, 2021, Econometrica
  • The anatomy of sentiment-driven fluctuations, 2021, Journal of Economic Theory
  • Optimal Positive Capital Taxes at Interior Steady States, 2020, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • Revenue diversion, the allocation of talent, and income distribution, 2021, Mathematical Social Sciences
  • Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility, 2021, The Economic Journal

Benhabib's work is frequently published in the following academic venues:

  • Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Econometrica
  • Journal of Economic Theory
  • American Economic Journal Macroeconomics

Collaborations form a significant part of Benhabib's research activities. Frequent co-authors include Heather M. Anderson, Robert A. Becker, Hilde C. Bjørnland, Francesco Ravazzolo, and KyungHi Chang.

In terms of scholarly contributions beyond articles, Benhabib has published a book titled Cycles and Chaos in Economic Equilibrium (2021) through Princeton University Press.

Their research spans a broad range of subfields, with publications across:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Accounting
  • Management Science and Operations Research

Among academic distinctions, Jess Benhabib was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992, reflecting recognition by the economics research community.

Best Publications

  • The role of human capital in economic development Evidence from aggregate cross-country data

    Jess Benhabib;Mark M. Spiegel

  • Indeterminacy and Increasing Returns

    Jess Benhabib;Roger E.A. Farmer

  • Monetary policy and multiple equilibria

    Jess Benhabib;Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé;Martín Uribe

  • Human Capital and Technology Diffusion

    Jess Benhabib;Mark M. Spiegel

  • The Perils of Taylor Rules

    Jess Benhabib;Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé;Martín Uribe

  • Homework in Macroeconomics: Household Production and Aggregate Fluctuations

    Jess Benhabib;Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Richard Rogerson;Randall Wright;Randall Wright

  • The Role of Financial Development in Growth and Investment

    Jess Benhabib;Mark M. Spiegel

  • Chaos: Significance, Mechanism, and Economic Applications

    William J. Baumol;Jess Benhabib

  • Social conflict and growth

    Jess Benhabib;Aldo Rustichini

  • Indeterminacy and sunspots in macroeconomics

    Jess Benhabib;Roger E.A. Farmer

  • Monetary policy and multiple equilibria

    Jess Benhabib;Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe;Martin Uribe

  • Uniqueness and Indeterminacy: On the Dynamics of Endogenous Growth

    Jess Benhabib;Roberto Perli

  • The Distribution of Wealth and Fiscal Policy in Economies With Finitely Lived Agents

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • A characterization of erratic dynamics in, the overlapping generations model

    Jess Benhabib;Jess Benhabib;Richard H. Day;Richard H. Day

  • Present-Bias, Quasi-Hyperbolic Discounting, and Fixed Costs

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Andrew Schotter

  • Avoiding Liquidity Traps

    Jess Benhabib;Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe;Mart ´ in Uribe

  • Indeterminacy and sector-specific externalities

    Jess Benhabib;Roger E.A. Farmer

  • The hopf bifurcation and the existence and stability of closed orbits in multisector models of optimal economic growth

    Jess Benhabib;Kazuo Nishimura

  • Rational Choice and Erratic Behaviour

    Jess Benhabib;Richard H. Day

  • Skewed Wealth Distributions: Theory and Empirics

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • Handbook of Social Economics

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin;Matthew O. Jackson

  • Modeling internal commitment mechanisms and self-control: A neuroeconomics approach to consumption-saving decisions

    Jess Benhabib;Alberto Bisin

  • On the political economy of immigration.

    Jess Benhabib

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Bisin
Alberto Bisin New York University
Martín Uribe
Martín Uribe Columbia University
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé Columbia University
Mark M. Spiegel
Mark M. Spiegel Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Aldo Rustichini
Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota
Roger E. A. Farmer
Roger E. A. Farmer University of Warwick
Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson Princeton University
Randall Wright
Randall Wright University of Wisconsin–Madison
George W. Evans
George W. Evans University of St Andrews
Boyan Jovanovic
Boyan Jovanovic New York University

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