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Kristin J. Forbes

Kristin J. Forbes

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
51
Citations
18453
World Ranking
1297
National Ranking
784

Kristin J. Forbes 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 Kristin J. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 158 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Kristin J. Forbes 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 Kristin J. Forbes sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kristin J. Forbes is affiliated with MIT in the United States, specializing in the broad field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance with a focus on subfields such as Finance, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Global and Planetary Change. Their research predominantly addresses topics including the Global Financial Crisis and Policies, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Economic Theory and Policy, Credit Risk and Financial Regulations, and Economic theories and models.

Their recent published papers include a range of topics related to capital flows, macroprudential regulations, exchange rate dynamics, inflation, and financial cycle vulnerability. Notable papers are:

  • Capital flow waves-or ripples? Extreme capital flow movements since the crisis, 2021, Journal of International Money and Finance
  • Macroprudential FX regulations: Shifting the snowbanks of FX vulnerability?, 2020, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Spillovers at the extremes: The macroprudential stance and vulnerability to the global financial cycle, 2022, Journal of International Economics
  • International Evidence on Shock-Dependent Exchange Rate Pass-Through, 2020, IMF Economic Review
  • Low Inflation Bends the Phillips Curve around the World, 2022, Economía

Kristin J. Forbes collaborates frequently with several coauthors, including Anusha Chari, Katharina Bergant, Christian Friedrich, Dennis Reinhardt, and Christopher G. Collins. The highest number of joint publications has been with Anusha Chari and Katharina Bergant, both with four coauthored works.

The scholar's work appears across a variety of publication venues, with the most frequent being the SSRN Electronic Journal, where 11 papers have been published. Other venues include the Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of International Economics, and IMF Economic Review, each hosting at least one publication.

In addition to journal articles, Kristin J. Forbes has contributed to book publications, notably a book titled Tradeoffs over Rate Cycles: Activity, Inflation and the Price Level scheduled for 2025, published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks.

Best Publications

  • No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Comovements

    Kristin J. Forbes;Roberto Rigobon

  • A Reassessment of the Relationship between Inequality and Growth

    Kristin J. Forbes

  • Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flight, and Retrenchment

    Kristin J. Forbes;Francis E. Warnock

  • No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Co-movements

    Kristin Forbes;Roberto Rigobon

  • Contagion in Latin America: Definitions, Measurement, and Policy Implications

    Kristin Forbes;Roberto Rigobon

  • No Contagion, Only Interdependence: Measuring Stock Market Co-Movements

    Kristin J. Forbes;Kristin J. Forbes;Roberto Rigobon;Roberto Rigobon

  • Measuring Contagion: Conceptual and Empirical Issues

    Kristin Forbes;Roberto Rigobon

  • A Decomposition of Global Linkages in Financial Markets Over Time

    Kristin J. Forbes;Menzie David Chinn

  • Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Depreciations

    Mihir A. Desai;C. Fritz Foley;Kristin J. Forbes

  • International Financial Contagion

    Stijn Claessens;Kristin J. Forbes

  • One cost of the Chilean capital controls: Increased financial constraints for smaller traded firms

    Kristin J. Forbes

  • Contagion in Latin America: Definitions, Measurement, and Policy Implications

    Kristin Forbes;Roberto Rigobon

  • Contagion in Latin America: Definitions, Measurement, and Policy Implications

    Kristin J. Forbes;Kristin J. Forbes;Roberto Rigobon;Roberto Rigobon

  • Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

    Dhammika Dharmapala;C. Fritz Foley;Kristin J. Forbes

  • The Microeconomic Evidence on Capital Controls: No Free Lunch

    Kristin J. Forbes

  • Capital Flow Management Measures: What Are They Good For?

    Kristin Forbes;Marcel Fratzscher;Marcel Fratzscher;Marcel Fratzscher;Roland Straub

  • BUBBLE THY NEIGHBOR: PORTFOLIO EFFECTS AND EXTERNALITIES FROM CAPITAL CONTROLS

    Kristin Forbes;Kristin Forbes;Marcel Fratzscher;Marcel Fratzscher;Thomas Kostka;Roland Straub

  • The Shocks Matter: Improving Our Estimates of Exchange Rate Pass-Through

    Kristin Forbes;Ida Hjortsoe;Tsvetelina Nenova

  • The Asian flu and Russian virus: the international transmission of crises in firm-level data

    Kristin J. Forbes

  • Why do foreigners invest in the United States

    Kristin J. Forbes

  • Are Trade Linkages Important Determinants of Country Vulnerability to Crises

    Kristin Forbes

  • Capital Flow Waves: Surges, Stops, Flights and Retranchment

    Kristin J. Forbes;Kristin J. Forbes;Francis E. Warnock;Francis E. Warnock

  • The Asian Flu and Russian Virus: Firm-level Evidence on How Crises are Transmitted Internationally

    Kristin Forbes

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel Fratzscher
Marcel Fratzscher German Institute for Economic Research
Francis E. Warnock
Francis E. Warnock University of Virginia
C. Fritz Foley
C. Fritz Foley Harvard University
Roland Straub
Roland Straub European Central Bank
Mihir A. Desai
Mihir A. Desai Harvard University
Michael W. Klein
Michael W. Klein Tufts University
Menzie David Chinn
Menzie David Chinn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeffrey A. Frankel
Jeffrey A. Frankel Harvard University
Dhammika Dharmapala
Dhammika Dharmapala University of California, Berkeley

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