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Economics and Finance
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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
103
Citations
79198
World Ranking
84
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1992 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Mark W. Watson is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with significant contributions across several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Statistics and Probability, Finance, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work spans a variety of topics, such as:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Statistical Methods and Inference

Mark W. Watson has authored multiple papers published in reputable academic venues. Some recent works include:

  • Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2, 2022, Nature
  • Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions identified with an external instrument, 2020, Journal of Econometrics
  • Slack and Cyclically Sensitive Inflation, 2020, Journal of Money Credit and Banking
  • An Econometric Model of International Growth Dynamics for Long-Horizon Forecasting, 2020, The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Aggregate Implications of Changing Sectoral Trends, 2022, Journal of Political Economy

Frequently publishing in journals such as The Review of Economics and Statistics, Econometrica, NBER Macroeconomics Annual, arXiv (Cornell University), and Nature, the scientist has contributed extensively to the academic discourse in their fields.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Ulrich K. Müller, James H. Stock, Andrew T. Foerster, Andreas Hornstein, and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte. Collaborations with these researchers indicate a focus on macroeconomics, econometric methods, and economic dynamics.

Recognition of their professional standing includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992, reflecting a long-standing engagement with the economics research community.

Best Publications

  • Stochastic trends and economic fluctuations

    Robert G. King;Charles I. Plosser;James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • A SIMPLE ESTIMATOR OF COINTEGRATING VECTORS IN HIGHER ORDER INTEGRATED SYSTEMS

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Forecasting Using Principal Components From a Large Number of Predictors

    James H Stock;Mark W Watson

  • INFERENCE IN LINEAR TIME SERIES MODELS WITH SOME UNIT ROOTS

    Christopher A. Sims;James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Macroeconomic Forecasting Using Diffusion Indexes

    James H Stock;Mark W Watson

  • Bubbles, Rational Expectations and Financial Markets

    Olivier Blanchard;Mark Watson

  • Testing for Common Trends

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Systematic monetary policy and the effects of oil price shocks

    Ben S. Bernanke;Mark Gertler;Mark W. Watson

  • Introduction to Econometrics

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Has the Business Cycle Changed and Why

    James Stock;Mark Watson

  • New Indexes of Coincident and Leading Economic Indicators

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Stochastic Trends and Economic Fluctuations

    Robert G King;Robert G King;Robert G King;Charles I Plosser;Charles I Plosser;James H Stock;James H Stock;Mark W Watson;Mark W Watson

  • Forecasting Output and Inflation: The Role of Asset Prices

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Why Has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

    Matthew D. Shapiro;Mark W. Watson

  • Combination forecasts of output growth in a seven-country data set

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

    Matthew D. Shapiro;Mark W. Watson

  • Forecasting inflation

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  • Evidence on Structural Instability in Macroeconomic Time Series Relations

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Business Cycle Fluctuations in U.S. Macroeconomic Time Series

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Univariate detrending methods with stochastic trends

    Mark W. Watson

  • Vector Autoregressions

    Unknown

  • Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2

    Unknown

  • Implications of Dynamic Factor Models for VAR Analysis

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

  • Disentangling the Channels of the 2007–09 Recession

    James H. Stock;Mark W. Watson

Frequent Co-Authors

James H. Stock
James H. Stock Harvard University
Robert G. King
Robert G. King Boston University
Norman R. Swanson
Norman R. Swanson Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ricardo Reis
Ricardo Reis London School of Economics and Political Science
Eric Ghysels
Eric Ghysels University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert F. Engle
Robert F. Engle New York University
Olivier J. Blanchard
Olivier J. Blanchard Peterson Institute for International Economics
Clive W. J. Granger
Clive W. J. Granger University of California, San Diego
Douglas O. Staiger
Douglas O. Staiger Dartmouth College
Robert E. Hall
Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution

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