2026 Jonathan A. Parker: 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	42	2017	1819	1170	1029	142	13171

Overview

Jonathan A. Parker is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their publication record includes 22 papers focused primarily in these fields.

The subfields of study for Jonathan A. Parker's work include:

Economics and Econometrics
Finance
Accounting
Demography
Gender Studies

Key research topics covered in Jonathan A. Parker's work are:

Housing Market and Economics
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies

Jonathan A. Parker has been published mainly in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
The Journal of Finance (3 publications)
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2 publications)
Review of Financial Studies (2 publications)
NBER Macroeconomics Annual (2 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jonathan A. Parker include:

Retail Financial Innovation and Stock Market Dynamics: The Case of Target Date Funds, 2023, The Journal of Finance
Household Portfolios and Retirement Saving Over the Life Cycle, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice, 2022, The Journal of Finance
Asymmetric Consumption Smoothing, 2020, American Economic Review
Accelerator or Brake? Cash for Clunkers, Household Liquidity, and Aggregate Demand, 2020, American Economic Journal Economic Policy

Jonathan A. Parker frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

Antoinette Schoar
Duncan Simester
Yang Sun
Michael J. Fishman
Ludwig Straub

Best Publications

Consumption Over the Life Cycle

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;Jonathan A. Parker

2462
Citations
Household Expenditure and the Income Tax Rebates of 2001

David S Johnson;Jonathan A Parker;Nicholas S Souleles

1484
Citations
Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008

Jonathan A Parker;Nicholas S Souleles;David S Johnson;Robert McClelland

1159
Citations
Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns

Markus K. Brunnermeier;Christian Gollier;Jonathan A. Parker

1114
Citations
Measuring the Cyclicality of Real Wages: How Important is Composition Bias?

Gary Solon;Robert Barsky;Jonathan A. Parker

960
Citations
Consumption Risk and the Cross Section of Expected Returns

Jonathan A. Parker;Christian Julliard

709
Citations
Optimal Expectations

Unknown

690
Citations
The Reaction of Household Consumption to Predictable Changes in Social Security Taxes

Jonathan A. Parker

671
Citations
Luxury Goods and the Equity Premium

Yacine Aït-Sahalia;Jonathan A. Parker;Motohiro Yogo

533
Citations
OPTIMAL BELIEFS, ASSET PRICES, AND THE PREFERENCE FOR SKEWED RETURNS

Maiikus K. Brunnermeier;Christian Gollier;Jonathan A. Parker

500
Citations
Spendthrift in America? On Two Decades of Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate

Jonathan A. Parker

371
Citations
The Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 and the Aggregate Demand for Consumption

Christian Broda;Jonathan Parker

338
Citations
Consumption Over the Life Cycle

Jonathan A. Parker;Jonathan A. Parker;Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

323
Citations
On Measuring the Effects of Fiscal Policy in Recessions

Jonathan A. Parker

322
Citations
The Empirical Importance of Precautionary Saving

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;Jonathan A Parker

320
Citations
The Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 and the aggregate demand for consumption

Christian Broda;Jonathan A. Parker

288
Citations
Spendthrift in America? On Two Decades of Decline in the U.S. Saving Rate

Jonathan Parker

285
Citations
Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country: Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom

Chang-Tai Hsieh;Jonathan A. Parker

282
Citations
Consumption Risk and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns

Christian Julliard;Christian Julliard;Jonathan A. Parker;Jonathan A. Parker

177
Citations
Precautionary Saving and Consumption Fluctuations

Jonathan A. Parker;Bruce Preston

171
Citations
Belief Disagreement and Portfolio Choice

Maarten Meeuwis;Jonathan Parker;Antoinette Schoar;Duncan I. Simester

168
Citations
Why Don't Households Smooth Consumption? Evidence from a 25 Million Dollar Experiment

Jonathan A Parker

141
Citations
Optimal Beliefs, Asset Prices, and the Preference for Skewed Returns

Markus K. Brunnermeier;Christian Gollier;Christian Gollier;Jonathan A. Parker;Jonathan A. Parker

132
Citations
The Consumption Risk of the Stock Market

Jonathan A. Parker

125
Citations
Nber Macroeconomics Annual

Stanley Fischer;Olivier Blanchard;Julio J. Rotemberg

11
Citations
CONSUMPTION OVERTHE LIFE CYCLE

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;Jonathan A. Parker

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Eichenbaum Northwestern University

Michael Woodford Columbia University

Antoinette Schoar MIT

Daron Acemoglu MIT

Markus K. Brunnermeier Princeton University

Annette Vissing-Jorgensen Federal Reserve System

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas International Monetary Fund

Itzhak Ben-David The Ohio State University

Chang-Tai Hsieh University of Chicago

Duncan Simester MIT

External Links

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