2026 Kjetil Storesletten: 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	39	2351	2126	1332	1172	118	13488

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
2013 - Member of Academia Europaea
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Kjetil Storesletten is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has a focused research profile within the broader field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans multiple specialized areas, including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Accounting, Finance, and Gender Studies.

Their research topics predominantly cover Economic Growth and Productivity, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Firm Innovation and Growth, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Financial Literacy, Pension and Retirement Analysis, Economic Theory and Policy, and Global Trade and Economics.

Storesletten has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of the European Economic Association
The Review of Economic Studies
Econometrica
Journal of Public Economics

Several recent papers by Storesletten highlight their research interests and collaborations. These include:

"From Imitation to Innovation: Where Is All That Chinese R&D Going?" (2022) published in Econometrica
"Presidential Address 2019: How Should Tax Progressivity Respond to Rising Income Inequality?" (2020) published in Journal of the European Economic Association
"Optimal progressivity with age-dependent taxation" (2020) published in Journal of Public Economics
"Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China" (2025) published in The Review of Economic Studies
"Dissecting Idiosyncratic Earnings Risk" (2023) published in Journal of the European Economic Association

They frequently collaborate with other researchers. Their frequent coauthors include Jonathan Heathcote, Michael König, Fabrizio Zilibotti, Giovanni L. Violante, and Elin Halvorsen.

Kjetil Storesletten has been recognized by academic organizations as a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 2013, a Member of Academia Europaea since the same year, and as an Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

Growing Like China

Zheng Song;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

2364
Citations
Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle

Kjetil Storesletten;Christopher I. Telmer;Amir Yaron

1049
Citations
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

924
Citations
Cyclical Dynamics in Idiosyncratic Labor Market Risk

Kjetil Storesletten;Chris I. Telmer;Amir Yaron

902
Citations
Sustaining Fiscal Policy through Immigration

Kjetil Storesletten

860
Citations
Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

824
Citations
Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

797
Citations
Asset pricing with idiosyncratic risk and overlapping generations

Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Christopher I. Telmer;Amir Yaron;Amir Yaron

707
Citations
Quantitative macroeconomics with heterogeneous households

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni Violante

615
Citations
Consumption and labor supply with partial insurance: An analytical framework

Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

518
Citations
Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante

471
Citations
The Survival of the Welfare State

John Hassler;José Vicente Rodríguez Mora;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti;Fabrizio Zilibotti

358
Citations
The Welfare Cost of Business Cycles Revisited: Finite Lives and Cyclical Variation in Idiosyncratic Risk

Kjetil Storesletten;Chris I. Telmer;Amir Yaron

314
Citations
Fiscal Implications of Immigration—A Net Present Value Calculation

Kjetil Storesletten

272
Citations
Rotten parents and disciplined children: A politico-economic theory of public expenditure and debt

Zheng Song;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

269
Citations
The risk-sharing implications of alternative social security arrangements ¢

Kjetil Storesletten;Chris I. Telmer;Amir Yaron

194
Citations
TWO VIEWS OF INEQUALITY OVER THE LIFE CYCLE

Jonathan H Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L Violante

190
Citations
Insurance and Opportunities: A Welfare Analysis of Labor Market Risk

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

176
Citations
Sharing high growth across generations : pensions and demographic transition in China

Zheng Song;Kjetil Storesletten;Yikai Wang;Fabrizio Zilibotti

148
Citations
Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

130
Citations
Asset Pricing with Idiosyncratic Risk and Overlapping Generations

Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Chris Telmer;Amir Yaron;Amir Yaron;Amir Yaron

130
Citations
A positive theory of geographic mobility and social insurance

John Hassler;José Vicente Rodríguez Mora;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

128
Citations
The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Jonathan Heathcote;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Giovanni L. Violante;Giovanni L. Violante

127
Citations
Consumption and Risk Sharing Over the Life Cycle

Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Chris Telmer;Amir Yaron;Amir Yaron

110
Citations
The dynamics of government

John Hassler;Per Krusell;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti

109
Citations
Democratic public good provision

John Hassler;John Hassler;Kjetil Storesletten;Kjetil Storesletten;Fabrizio Zilibotti;Fabrizio Zilibotti

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University

Giovanni L. Violante Princeton University

Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Per Krusell Stockholm University

Loren Brandt University of Toronto

David K. Backus New York University

Magnus Johannesson Stockholm School of Economics

John A. List University of Chicago

David Laibson Harvard University

Amit Seru Stanford University

External Links

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