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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Economics and Finance
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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2001 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their analyses of markets with information asymmetry
  • 2001 - Nobel Prize for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1979 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 1973 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Joseph E. Stiglitz is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and focuses primarily on the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans a variety of subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, as well as Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as:

  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Joseph E. Stiglitz are:

  • "Why inequality could spread COVID-19" (2020), published in The Lancet Public Health
  • "Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?" (2020), published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • "The economics of immense risk, urgent action and radical change: towards new approaches to the economics of climate change" (2022), published in Journal of Economic Methodology
  • "The Social Cost of Carbon, Risk, Distribution, Market Failures: An Alternative Approach" (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "The proper role of government in the market economy: The case of the post-COVID recovery" (2021), published in Journal of Government and Economics

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Tomohiro Hirano
  • Nicholas Stern
  • Martín Guzmán
  • Agostino Capponi
  • Andrew Kosenko

Joseph E. Stiglitz has published extensively in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (24 publications)
  • Industrial and Corporate Change (8 publications)
  • Journal of Policy Modeling (6 publications)
  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy (5 publications)
  • Journal of Globalization and Development (4 publications)

Books published by the scientist include works from publishers such as London School of Economics and Political Science, OECD Publishing eBooks, and The MIT Press. Titles include "Will COVID-19 fiscal recovery packages accelerate or retard progress on climate change?" (2020), "Jenseits des BIP" (2020), and "Lives of the Laureates" (2020).

Awards received by Joseph E. Stiglitz encompass prestigious recognitions including the Nobel Prize in Economics awarded in 2001, specifically for analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Other honors include the John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association in 1979, fellowship of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2014, fellowship of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2009, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 1988. Additional fellowships include the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Econometric Society, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information.

    Joseph E. Stiglitz;Andrew Weiss

  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Monopolistic competition and optimum product diversity

    Avinash K. Dixit;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • On the impossibility of informationally efficient markets

    Sanford J Grossman;Joseph E Stiglitz

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Report by the commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress

    Jean-Paul Fitoussi;Amartya Sen;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Equilibrium in Competitive Insurance Markets: An Essay on the Economics of Imperfect Information

    Michael Rothschild;Michael Rothschild;Joseph E. Stiglitz;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Efficiency Wage Models of the Labor Market: Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device

    Carl Shapiro;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Increasing risk: I. A definition

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph E. Stiglitz;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Lectures on Public Economics Updated edition

    Anthony Atkinson;Joseph Stiglitz

  • Increasing risk II: Its economic consequences

    Michael Rothschild;Joseph E Stiglitz

  • Economics of the Public Sector

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Lectures on public economics

    A. B. Atkinson;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Making Globalization Work

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The measurement of economic performance and social progress revisited

    Joseph Stiglitz;Amartya Sen;Jean-Paul Fitoussi

  • el malestar en la globalización

    joseph e. stiglitz

  • Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • Liberalization, Moral Hazard in Banking, and Prudential Regulation: Are Capital Requirements Enough?

    Thomas F. Hellmann;Kevin C. Murdock;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The Theory of Screening, Education, and the Distribution of Income

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The Role of the State in Financial Markets

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce C. Greenwald
Bruce C. Greenwald Columbia University
Richard Arnott
Richard Arnott University of California, Riverside
José Antonio Ocampo
José Antonio Ocampo Columbia University
Mauro Gallegati
Mauro Gallegati Marche Polytechnic University
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton Imperial College London
Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta University of Cambridge
Giovanni Dosi
Giovanni Dosi Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Michael Rothschild
Michael Rothschild University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stefano Battiston
Stefano Battiston University of Zurich
Anton Korinek
Anton Korinek University of Virginia

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