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Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

University of Pennsylvania
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
17202
World Ranking
648
National Ranking
413

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jesús Fernández-Villaverde sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 282 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jesús Fernández-Villaverde sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with a total of 109 publications in these fields. Within this broad area, the scientist has specialized subfields including economics and econometrics, general economics, finance, management science and operations research, and artificial intelligence.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Monetary policy and economic impact
  • Economic theory and policy
  • Complex systems and time series analysis
  • Economic growth and productivity
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Market dynamics and volatility

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde has published frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Working paper
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Documentos de trabajo/Documento de trabajo - Banco de España, Servicio de Estudios
  • Econometrica

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Central bank digital currency: Central banking for all?" (2020), published in Review of Economic Dynamics
  • "Uncertainty shocks and business cycle research" (2020), published in Review of Economic Dynamics
  • "American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics" (2020), published in AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • "Financial Frictions and the Wealth Distribution" (2023), published in Econometrica
  • "The Fractured-Land Hypothesis" (2023), published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Their frequent collaborators include Galo Nuño, Francesco Zanetti, Linda Schilling, Harald Uhlig, and Jesse Perla.

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde has received honors such as being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020 and a Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC).

Best Publications

  • FISCAL VOLATILITY SHOCKS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Pablo A Guerrón-Quintana;Keith Kuester;Juan Rubio-Ramírez

  • Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Pablo Guerrón-Quintana;Juan F Rubio-Ramírez;Martin Uribe

  • Estimating Macroeconomic Models: A Likelihood Approach

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez

  • ABCs (and Ds) of Understanding VARs

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F. Rubio-RAMÍREZ;Juan F. Rubio-RAMÍREZ;Thomas J. Sargent;Thomas J. Sargent;Mark W. Watson

  • The econometrics of DSGE models

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde

  • Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

    Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

  • CONSUMPTION AND SAVING OVER THE LIFE CYCLE: HOW IMPORTANT ARE CONSUMER DURABLES?

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

  • POLITICAL CREDIT CYCLES: THE CASE OF THE EURO ZONE

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Luis Garicano;Tano J. Santos

  • Comparing solution methods for dynamic equilibrium economies

    S. Boragan Aruoba;Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez

  • Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Charles I Jones

  • Comparing dynamic equilibrium models to data: a Bayesian approach

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramı́rez

  • Nonlinear adventures at the zero lower bound

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Grey Gordon;Pablo Guerrón-Quintana;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez

  • THE PRUNED STATE-SPACE SYSTEM FOR NON-LINEAR DSGE MODELS: THEORY AND EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS

    Martin M Andreasen;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F Rubio-Ramírez

  • The Term Structure of Interest Rates in a DSGE Model with Recursive Preferences

    Jules H. van Binsbergen;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Ralph S.J. Koijen;Juan Rubio-Ramírez

  • How Structural Are Structural Parameters? [with Comments and Discussion]

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez;Timothy Cogley;Frank Schorfheide

  • Estimating dynamic equilibrium economies: linear versus nonlinear likelihood

    Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez

  • Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking For All?

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Daniel Sanches;Linda Marlene Schilling;Harald Uhlig

  • Macroeconomics and Volatility: Data, Models, and Estimation

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan Rubio-Ramírez

  • Computing DSGE models with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility

    Dario Caldara;Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Juan F Rubio-Ramirez;Wen Yao

  • Computing DSGE models with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility

    Dario Caldara;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez;Wen Yao

  • Solution and Estimation Methods for DSGE Models

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramírez;Frank Schorfheide

  • Estimating and simulating a sird model of COVID-19 for many countries, states, and cities

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Charles I Jones;Charles I Jones

  • Central bank digital currency: Central banking for all?

    Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Daniel Sanches;Linda Schilling;Linda Schilling;Harald Uhlig;Harald Uhlig

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez
Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez Emory University
S. Boragan Aruoba
S. Boragan Aruoba University of Maryland, College Park
Dirk Krueger
Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Greenwood
Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Sargent
Thomas J. Sargent New York University
Harald Uhlig
Harald Uhlig University of Chicago
Ralph S. J. Koijen
Ralph S. J. Koijen University of Chicago
Martín Uribe
Martín Uribe Columbia University
Ufuk Akcigit
Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

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