2026 John C. Williams: 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	62	729	658	457	404	289	26525

Overview

John C. Williams is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, covering a total of 11 publications.

The subfields of study addressed in their work include:

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Accounting
Building and Construction
Spectroscopy

The main research topics featured in their publications are:

Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Economic theories and models
Economic Theory and Policy
Housing Market and Economics
Hygrothermal properties of building materials
Aerogels and thermal insulation

Their frequent publication venues include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
Journal of Monetary Economics
American Economic Review
Journal of money credit and banking

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by John C. Williams include:

What to Expect from the Lower Bound on Interest Rates: Evidence from Derivatives Prices, 2021, American Economic Review
A new approach to assess inflation expectations anchoring using strategic surveys, 2022, Journal of Monetary Economics
Heat, mass and momentum transport in wet mineral-wool insulation: Experiment and simulation, 2024, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
The Curious Case of the Rise in Deflation Expectations, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
Taming Inflation Scares, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with them include:

Olivier Armantier
Wilbert van der Klaauw
Argia M. Sbordone
Giorgio Topa
Massoud Kaviany

Best Publications

Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest

Thomas Laubach;John C. Williams

1561
Citations
Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates

Eric T. Swanson;John C. Williams

1441
Citations
Measuring the Social Return to R&D

Charles I. Jones;John C. Williams

1363
Citations
Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: International Trends and Determinants

Kathryn Holston;Thomas Laubach;John C. Williams

1260
Citations
Three Lessons for Monetary Policy in a Low Inflation Era

David L. Reifschneider;John C. Williams

1120
Citations
Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest

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1101
Citations
A black swan in the money market

John B. Taylor;John C. Williams

864
Citations
Three lessons for monetary policy in a low inflation era

David L. Reifschneider;John Williams

858
Citations
Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economics of Investment in R&D

Charles I. Jones;John C. Williams

831
Citations
The Performance of Forecast-Based Monetary Policy Rules under Model Uncertainty ∗

Andrew T. Levin;Volker Wieland;John C. Williams

792
Citations
Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economics of Investment in R&D

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759
Citations
Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: International Trends and Determinants

Kathryn Holston;Thomas Laubach;John C. Williams

734
Citations
Robust Monetary Policy Rules with Unknown Natural Rates

Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

716
Citations
A Black Swan in the Money Market

John B. Taylor;John C. Williams

703
Citations
Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: International Trends and Determinants

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687
Citations
Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy

Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

676
Citations
Three Lessons for Monetary Policy in a Low Inflation Era

Unknown

668
Citations
Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules under Model Uncertainty

Andrew Levin;Volker Wieland;John C. Williams

667
Citations
The decline of activist stabilization policy: natural rate misperceptions, learning, and expectations

Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

650
Citations
Measuring the Effect of the Zero Lower Bound on Medium- and Longer-Term Interest Rates

Eric T. Swanson;John C. Williams

619
Citations
Imperfect Knowledge, Inflation Expectations, and Monetary Policy

Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

598
Citations
Monetary Policy under Uncertainty in Micro-Founded Macroeconometric Models

Andrew T. Levin;Alexei Onatski;John C. Williams;Noah Williams

515
Citations
Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest Redux

Thomas Laubach;John C. Williams

507
Citations
Robust monetary policy with competing reference models

Andrew T. Levin;John C. Williams

395
Citations
Simple and Robust Rules for Monetary Policy

John B. Taylor;John C. Williams

390
Citations
Forecasting Recessions: The Puzzle of the Enduring Power of the Yield Curve

Glenn D. Rudebusch;John C. Williams

366
Citations
Have We Underestimated the Likelihood and Severity of Zero Lower Bound Events

Hess Chung;Jean-Philippe Laforte;David L. Reifschneider;John C. Williams

300
Citations
The evolution of macro models at the Federal Reserve Board

Flint Brayton;Andrew Levin;Ralph Lyon;John C. Williams

278
Citations
Robust Monetary Policy with Imperfect Knowledge

Athanasios Orphanides;John C. Williams

272
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Athanasios Orphanides MIT

Andrew T. Levin Dartmouth College

Simon Gilchrist New York University

John B. Taylor Stanford University

Eric T. Swanson University of California, Irvine

Volker Wieland Goethe University Frankfurt

Glenn D. Rudebusch Brookings Institution

Peter Cramton University of Maryland, College Park

Janet L. Yellen University of California, Berkeley

David E. M. Sappington University of Florida

External Links

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