2026 Lawrence J. Christiano: 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	87	195	177	141	125	312	51734

Research.com Recognitions

2001 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Lawrence J. Christiano is an academic affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their work focuses primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance, with 23 publications in these fields. The subfields covered include general economics, econometrics and finance, economics and econometrics, finance, and marketing.

The main topics addressed in their research are:

Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Economic theories and models
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Economic Theory and Policy
Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis

Lawrence J. Christiano has contributed to several publications spanning different areas of economics. Notable recent papers include:

"Why is unemployment so countercyclical?" (2021), published in Review of Economic Dynamics
"Financial frictions in macroeconomics" (2021), published in Journal of International Money and Finance
"Modelling the Great Recession as a Bank Panic: Challenges" (2022), published in Economica
"Modeling the Great Recession as a Bank Panic: Challenges" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"The International Monetary Transmission Mechanism" (2025), published in NBER Macroeconomics Annual (authored by Santiago Camara but listed in the same data)

Their publications appear most frequently in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
Review of Economic Dynamics
Journal of International Money and Finance
NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Frequent co-authors associated with Lawrence J. Christiano are:

Martin Eichenbaum
Hüsnü Dalgıc
Benjamin K. Johannsen
Mathias Trabandt
Santiago Camara

Lawrence J. Christiano was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2001.

Best Publications

Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

10016
Citations
Monetary Policy Shocks: What Have We Learned and to What End?

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Stewart Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

7832
Citations
Monetary Policy Shocks: What Have We Learned and to What End?

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Martin Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

2948
Citations
The band pass filter

Lawrence J. Christiano;Terry J. Fitzgerald

2928
Citations
When Is the Government Spending Multiplier Large

Lawrence Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Sergio Rebelo

1995
Citations
Current Real-Business-Cycle Theories and Aggregate Labor Market Fluctuations

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Stewart Eichenbaum

1831
Citations
The effects of monetary policy shocks: evidence from the Flow of Funds

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin S. Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

1806
Citations
Risk Shocks

Unknown

1581
Citations
The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks: Some Evidence from the Flow of Funds

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Charles Evans

1536
Citations
Chapter 2 Monetary policy shocks: What have we learned and to what end?

Lawrence J Christiano;Martin S Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

1456
Citations
Habit Persistence, Asset Returns, and the Business Cycle

Michele Boldrin;Lawrence J. Christiano;Jonas D. M. Fisher

1443
Citations
The Great Depression and the Friedman-Schwartz hypothesis

Lawrence J. Christiano;Roberto Motto;Massimo Rostagno

1423
Citations
Firm-specific capital, nominal rigidities and the business cycle☆

David Altig;Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Jesper Lindé

1362
Citations
Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Martin Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

962
Citations
Liquidity Effects and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Lawrence Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum

897
Citations
Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

Varadarajan V Chari;Lawrence Christiano;Patrick Kehoe

889
Citations
Searching for a Break in GNP

Lawrence J. Christiano

841
Citations
DSGE models for monetary policy analysis

Lawrence J. Christiano;Mathias Trabandt;Karl Walentin

806
Citations
Sticky price and limited participation models of money: A comparison

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Martin Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

794
Citations
Nominal rigidities and the dynamic effects of a shock to monetary policy

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin S. Eichenbaum;Charles L. Evans

724
Citations
Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model

Lawrence J. Christiano;Mathias Trabandt;Mathias Trabandt;Karl Walentin

649
Citations
Understanding the Great Recession

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin S. Eichenbaum;Mathias Trabandt

642
Citations
Financial factors in economic fluctuations

Lawrence Christiano;Massimo Rostagno;Roberto Motto

624
Citations
Unit Roots in Real GNP: Do We Know, and Do We Care?

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Martin Eichenbaum

593
Citations
Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy

Unknown

561
Citations
Unemployment and Business Cycles

Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin S. Eichenbaum;Mathias Trabandt

555
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Eichenbaum Northwestern University

Varadarajan V. Chari University of Minnesota

Patrick J. Kehoe Stanford University

Jonas D. M. Fisher Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Michele Boldrin Washington University in St. Louis

Jesper Lindé Swedish National Bank

Sergio Rebelo Northwestern University

Wouter J. Den Haan London School of Economics and Political Science

Edward C. Prescott Arizona State University

Stephen G. Cecchetti Brandeis University

External Links

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