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35
Citations
10287
World Ranking
2875
National Ranking
1595

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Lee E. Ohanian is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on various subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, and Public Administration.

The scientist's scholarly output spans multiple topics related to economic theory and policy, economic growth and productivity, fiscal policy and economic growth, regional development and policy, global trade and economics, and merger and competition analysis.

Ohanian has published papers in several esteemed venues, most frequently contributing to the SSRN Electronic Journal and the Review of Economic Dynamics, with additional publications in the Journal of Political Economy and International Finance Discussion Paper.

  • Revisiting capital-skill complementarity, inequality, and labor share (2023), Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Labor Market Conflict and the Decline of the Rust Belt (2023), Journal of Political Economy
  • Accounting for the duality of the Italian economy (2023), Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Revisiting Capital-Skill Complementarity, Inequality, and Labor Share (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Neoclassical Growth of China (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent collaborators include Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Musa Orak, Shihan Shen, Dario Laudati, and Vincenzo Quadrini, indicating a network of co-authorship within economic research circles.

Ohanian received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: A macroeconomic analysis

    Per Krusell;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;José Víctor Ríos-Rull;Giovanni L. Violante

  • New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis

    Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Are Phillips Curves Useful for Forecasting Inflation

    Andrew Atkeson;Lee E. Ohanian

  • The Great Depression in the United States From A Neoclassical Perspective

    Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004

    Lee Ohanian;Lee Ohanian;Andrea Raffo;Richard Rogerson

  • The cyclical behavior of prices

    Thomas F. Cooley;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Latin America in the rearview mirror

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Alvaro Riascos;James A. Schmitz

  • Aggregate hours worked in OECD countries: New measurement and implications for business cycles

    Lee E. Ohanian;Andrea Raffo

  • Can’t Pay or Won’t Pay? Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default

    Kristopher Gerardi;Kyle F. Herkenhoff;Lee E. Ohanian;Paul S. Willen

  • A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves

    Boyan Jovanovic;Yaw Nyarko;Griliches

  • The Macroeconomic Effects of War Finance in the United States: World War II and the Korean War

    Lee E Ohanian

  • DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM ECONOMIES : A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARING MODELS AND DATA

    Francis X. Diebold;Lee E. Ohanian;Jeremy Berkowitz

  • The Economic Crisis from a Neoclassical Perspective

    Lee E. Ohanian

  • What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?

    Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Capital-skill complementarity and inequality: a macroeconomic analysis

    Per Krusell;Lee Ohanian;Lee Ohanian;José-Víctor Ríos-Rull;Giovanni Violante

  • Why Did Productivity Fall So Much during the Great Depression

    Lee E. Ohanian

  • Why have business cycle fluctuations become less volatile

    Andres Arias;Gary D. Hansen;Gary D. Hansen;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Postwar British Economic Growth and the Legacy of Keynes

    Thomas F. Cooley;Lee E. Ohanian

  • The spurious effects of unit roots on vector autoregressions: A Monte Carlo study

    Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian

  • The U.S. and U.K. Great Depressions Through the Lens of Neoclassical Growth Theory

    Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Tarnishing the Golden and Empire States: Land-Use Restrictions and the U.S. Economic Slowdown

    Kyle F. Herkenhoff;Lee E. Ohanian;Edward C. Prescott

  • New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian

  • Long-Term Changes in Labor Supply and Taxes: Evidence from OECD Countries, 1956-2004

    Andrea Raffo;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Richard Rogerson

  • Can't Pay or Won't Pay? Unemployment, Negative Equity, and Strategic Default

    Kristopher Gerardi;Kyle F. Herkenhoff;Lee E. Ohanian;Lee E. Ohanian;Paul Willen;Paul Willen

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold L. Cole
Harold L. Cole University of Pennsylvania
Richard Rogerson
Richard Rogerson Princeton University
Lutz Kilian
Lutz Kilian Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Paul S. Willen
Paul S. Willen Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott Arizona State University
James B. Bullard
James B. Bullard Purdue University West Lafayette
Kristopher S. Gerardi
Kristopher S. Gerardi Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Thomas J. Holmes
Thomas J. Holmes Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull University of Pennsylvania
John H. Cochrane
John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution

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