2026 Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: 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	64	648	582	413	364	282	17202

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)

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

1186
Citations
Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks

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

1080
Citations
Estimating Macroeconomic Models: A Likelihood Approach

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez

777
Citations
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

729
Citations
The econometrics of DSGE models

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

628
Citations
Consumption over the Life Cycle: Facts from Consumer Expenditure Survey Data

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

611
Citations
CONSUMPTION AND SAVING OVER THE LIFE CYCLE: HOW IMPORTANT ARE CONSUMER DURABLES?

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Dirk Krueger

573
Citations
POLITICAL CREDIT CYCLES: THE CASE OF THE EURO ZONE

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

553
Citations
Comparing solution methods for dynamic equilibrium economies

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

550
Citations
Estimating and Simulating a SIRD Model of COVID-19 for Many Countries, States, and Cities

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Charles I Jones

470
Citations
Comparing dynamic equilibrium models to data: a Bayesian approach

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramı́rez

448
Citations
Nonlinear adventures at the zero lower bound

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

426
Citations
THE PRUNED STATE-SPACE SYSTEM FOR NON-LINEAR DSGE MODELS: THEORY AND EMPIRICAL APPLICATIONS

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

394
Citations
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

371
Citations
How Structural Are Structural Parameters? [with Comments and Discussion]

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

305
Citations
Estimating dynamic equilibrium economies: linear versus nonlinear likelihood

Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde;Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez

279
Citations
Central Bank Digital Currency: Central Banking For All?

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

274
Citations
Macroeconomics and Volatility: Data, Models, and Estimation

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde;Juan Rubio-Ramírez

267
Citations
Computing DSGE models with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility

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

253
Citations
Computing DSGE models with recursive preferences and stochastic volatility

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

253
Citations
Solution and Estimation Methods for DSGE Models

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

248
Citations
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

218
Citations
Central bank digital currency: Central banking for all?

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

147
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Francisco Rubio-Ramirez Emory University

S. Boragan Aruoba University of Maryland, College Park

Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania

Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania

Thomas J. Sargent New York University

Harald Uhlig University of Chicago

Ralph S. J. Koijen University of Chicago

Martín Uribe Columbia University

Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

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