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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Best Scientists

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191
Citations
288605
World Ranking
390
National Ranking
259

Economics and Finance

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198
Citations
293683
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National Ranking
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Joseph E. Stiglitz publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph E. Stiglitz sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 1,208 publications — 100th percentile

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Joseph E. Stiglitz D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph E. Stiglitz sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
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This scientist: 198 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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
  • 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
Domenico Delli Gatti
Domenico Delli Gatti Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Michael Rothschild
Michael Rothschild University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stefano Battiston
Stefano Battiston University of Zurich

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