2026 John Geanakoplos: 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	56	978	872	611	532	267	22214

Research.com Recognitions

1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1989 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

John Geanakoplos is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with significant contributions to the subfields of Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Accounting, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

Economic theories and models
Game Theory and Applications
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Stochastic processes and financial applications
Housing Market and Economics
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Recent publications by John Geanakoplos include:

"Game Theory Without Partitions, and Applications to Speculation and Consensus" (2021), published in The B E Journal of Theoretical Economics
"Quantitative Easing, Collateral Constraints, and Financial Spillovers" (2020), published in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"An Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market Bubble in Metropolitan Washington D.C." (2024), published in SSRN Electronic Journal (co-authored by Robert L. Axtell)
"Discounting the distant future: What do historical bond prices imply about the long term discount rate?" (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University) (co-authored by Matteo Richiardi)
"Valuing the Future, Discounting in Random Environments: A Review" (2021), published in Preprints.org (co-authored by Jaume Masoliver)

John Geanakoplos has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

J. Doyne Farmer
Jaume Masoliver
Miquel Montero
Josep Maria Mata Perelló

The most frequent publication venues for their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The B E Journal of Theoretical Economics
SSRN Electronic Journal
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
Preprints.org

In addition to journal articles, John Geanakoplos has contributed to book publications. Notably, they authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Handbook of Financial Stress Testing in 2022.

Throughout their career, John Geanakoplos has been recognized with several awards, including:

Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1982)
Fellows of the Econometric Society (1989)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)

Best Publications

Multimarket Oligopoly: Strategic Substitutes and Complements

Jeremy I. Bulow;John D. Geanakoplos;Paul D. Klemperer

3730
Citations
The Leverage Cycle

John Geanakoplos

1889
Citations
Psychological Games and Sequential Rationality

John Geanakoplos;David Pearce;Ennio Stacchetti

1517
Citations
Psychological games and sequential rationality

John Geanakoplos;David Pearce;Ennio Stacchetti

1516
Citations
Existence, regularity, and constrained suboptimality of competitive allocations when the asset market is incomplete

John D. Geanakoplos;Heraklis M. Polemarchakis

1069
Citations
We Can't Disagree Forever

John Geanakoplos;Heracles M. Polemarchakis

1027
Citations
Existence, regularity, and constrained suboptimality of competitive allocations when the asset market is incomplete

John D. Geanakoplos;Heraklis M. Polemarchakis

888
Citations
Leverage Cycles and the Anxious Economy

Ana Fostel;John Geanakoplos

771
Citations
Default and punishment in general equilibrium

Pradeep Dubey;John Geanakoplos;Martin Shubik

575
Citations
We can't disagree forever

John D Geanakoplos;Heraklis M Polemarchakis

469
Citations
A theory of hierarchies based on limited managerial attention

John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos;Paul Milgrom;Paul Milgrom

392
Citations
Game Theory without Partitions, and Applications to Speculation and Consensus

John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos

388
Citations
Stationary Markov Equilibria

D. Duffie;J. Geanakoplos;A. Mas-Colell;A. Mclennan

386
Citations
Liquidity, Default and Crashes: Endogenous Contracts in General Equilibrium

John Geanakoplos

368
Citations
Three brief proofs of Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

John Geanakoplos

366
Citations
Demography and the Long-run Predictability of the Stock Market

John Geanakoplos;Michael Magill;Martine Quinzii

341
Citations
Social Security Money's Worth

John Geanakoplos;Olivia S. Mitchell;Stephen P. Zeldes

339
Citations
An introduction to general equilibrium with incomplete asset markets

John Geanakoplos

337
Citations
Demography and the Long-Run Predictability of the Stock Market

John Geanakoplos;Michael Magill;Martine Quinzii

324
Citations
Holding Idle Capacity to Deter Entry

Jeremy Bulow;John Geanakoplos;Paul Klemperer

306
Citations
The Leverage Cycle

John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos

295
Citations
Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility

Stefan Thurner;J. Farmer;John Geanakoplos

277
Citations
Getting at Systemic Risk via an Agent-Based Model of the Housing Market †

John Geanakoplos;Robert Axtell;J. Doyne Farmer;Peter Howitt

253
Citations
Real indeterminacy with financial assets

John Geanakoplos;Andreu Mas-Colell

237
Citations
Arrow-Debreu Model of General Equilibrium

John Geanakoplos

199
Citations
Collateral equilibrium, I: a basic framework

John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos;William R. Zame

196
Citations
Leverage Causes Fat Tails and Clustered Volatility

Stefan Thurner;Stefan Thurner;J. Doyne Farmer;J. Doyne Farmer;John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos

82
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Doyne Farmer University of Oxford

Martin Shubik Yale University

Stefan Thurner Medical University of Vienna

Peter A. Diamond MIT

Olivia S. Mitchell University of Pennsylvania

Paul Milgrom Stanford University

Ronald Fagin IBM (United States)

Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University

Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University

Peter Howitt Brown University

External Links

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