2026 Joakim Westerlund: 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	44	1799	1617	18	16	212	17671

Overview

Joakim Westerlund is affiliated with Lund University in Sweden and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research, and Finance.

The main research topics of Westerlund's work include:

Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Statistical Methods and Inference
Market Dynamics and Volatility

Westerlund has published papers in several academic venues where they have appeared multiple times. These include:

Journal of Applied Econometrics
Econometrics Journal
SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Recent publications by Joakim Westerlund encompass topics related to panel data models, structural breaks, and econometric methods. Some selected papers are:

"On the robustness of the pooled CCE estimator" (2020) published in Journal of Econometrics
"Testing and estimating structural breaks in time series and panel data in Stata" (2025) published in The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata
"Multiple Structural Breaks in Interactive Effects Panel Data Models" (2024) published in Journal of Applied Econometrics
"Structural Breaks in Interactive Effects Panels and the Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19" (2022) published in Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
"Fixed effects demeaning in the presence of interactive effects in treatment effects regressions and elsewhere" (2020) published in Journal of Applied Econometrics

Westerlund frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

Yiannis Karavias
Hande Karabiyik
Paresh Kumar Narayan
Yousef Kaddoura
Liangjun Su

Best Publications

Testing for error correction in panel data

Joakim Westerlund

5090
Citations
New Simple Tests for Panel Cointegration

Joakim Westerlund

1231
Citations
A panel bootstrap cointegration test

Joakim Westerlund;David L. Edgerton

1155
Citations
Panel cointegration tests of the Fisher effect

Joakim Westerlund

1038
Citations
A simple test for cointegration in dependent panels with structural breaks

Joakim Westerlund;David L. Edgerton

817
Citations
Error–correction–based cointegration tests for panel data

Damiaan Persyn;Joakim Westerlund

783
Citations
Statistik för Beteendevetare

Elisabet Borg;Joakim Westerlund

543
Citations
Testing slope homogeneity in large panels with serial correlation

Johan Blomquist;Johan Blomquist;Joakim Westerlund

541
Citations
Estimating the gravity model without gravity using panel data

Joakim Westerlund;Fredrik Wilhelmsson

494
Citations
Testing for Panel Cointegration with Multiple Structural Breaks

Joakim Westerlund

441
Citations
Testing for Predictability in Conditionally Heteroskedastic Stock Returns

Joakim Westerlund;Paresh Narayan

310
Citations
Does the choice of estimator matter when forecasting returns

Joakim Westerlund;Paresh Narayan

308
Citations
Testing for Convergence in Carbon Dioxide Emissions Using a Century of Panel Data

Joakim Westerlund;Syed A. Basher

261
Citations
Introduktion till ekonometri

Joakim Westerlund

164
Citations
Cross-sectional averages versus principal components ☆

Joakim Westerlund;Joakim Westerlund;Jean-Pierre Urbain

163
Citations
Do oil prices predict economic growth? New global evidence

Paresh Kumar Narayan;Susan Sunila Sharma;Wai Ching Poon;Joakim Westerlund

159
Citations
New improved tests for cointegration with structural breaks

Joakim Westerlund;David L. Edgerton

148
Citations
A Panel CUSUM Test of the Null of Cointegration

Joakim Westerlund

140
Citations
Structural Breaks in Interactive Effects Panels and the Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19

Yiannis Karavias;Paresh Narayan;Joakim Westerlund

137
Citations
Panicca: Panic on Cross-Section Averages

Simon Reese;Joakim Westerlund;Joakim Westerlund

127
Citations
Panel Cointegration and the Monetary Exchange Rate Model

Syed A. Basher;Joakim Westerlund

112
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paresh Kumar Kumar Narayan Monash University

Susan Sunila Sharma Deakin University

Rolf Larsson Uppsala University

Lars-Gunnar Lundh Lund University

Eva Billstedt University of Gothenburg

Seema Narayan Fiji National University

Jörg Breitung University of Cologne

Erik Hollnagel Jönköping University

Sebastian Lundström University of Gothenburg

Darryl W. Eyles University of Queensland

External Links

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