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2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
119
Citations
49731
World Ranking
39
National Ranking
31

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2005 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1977 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Martin Feldstein was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their academic contributions were primarily within the broad domain of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of three publications in this field. Within these, their work focused more narrowly on General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics addressed in their research included Economic Theory and Policy, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, and Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, with two publications each in these subject areas.

  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

Throughout their career, Martin Feldstein received several recognitions. Notably, they were awarded the John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association in 1977 and were named a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2005. They were also elected as a Fellow of the European Economic Association, although the exact year of election is not specified.

  • Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2005)
  • John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association (1977)
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • Domestic savings and international capital flows

    Martin Feldstein;Charles Horioka

  • Domestic Saving and International Capital Flows

    Martin Feldstein;Charles Horioka

  • Social Security, Induced Retirement, and Aggregate Capital Accumulation

    Martin Feldstein

  • TAX AVOIDANCE AND THE DEADWEIGHT LOSS OF THE INCOME TAX

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the 1986 Tax Reform Act

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Welfare Loss of Excess Health Insurance

    Martin S. Feldstein

  • National Saving and International Investment

    Martin Feldstein;Philippe Bacchetta

  • Temporary Layoffs in the Theory of Unemployment

    Martin Feldstein

  • On the theory of tax reform

    Martin Feldstein

  • Government deficits and aggregate demand

    Martin Feldstein;Martin Feldstein

  • Domestic Saving and International Capital Movements in the Long Run and the Short Run

    Martin Feldstein

  • Stabilization Policy Ten Years After

    James Tobin;Edmund S. Phelps;William Poole;Martin Feldstein

  • Mean-Variance Analysis in the Theory of Liquidity Preference and Portfolio Selection

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Political Economy of the European Economic and Monetary Union: Political Sources of an Economic Liability

    Martin Feldstein

  • Inflation and the Stock Market

    Martin Feldstein

  • Distributional Equity and the Optimal Structured of Public Prices

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Missing Piece in Policy Analysis: Social Security Reform

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Costs and Benefits of Going from Low Inflation to Price Stability

    Martin Feldstein

  • The Transition Path in Privatizing Social Security

    Martin Feldstein;Andrew Samwick

  • Hospital Cost Inflation: A Study of Nonprofit Price Dynamics

    Martin Feldstein

  • Handbook of Public Economics

    Alan Auerbach;Martin Feldstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan J. Auerbach
Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley
Joel Slemrod
Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James R. Hines
James R. Hines University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Lawrence H. Summers
Lawrence H. Summers Harvard University
Shlomo Yitzhaki
Shlomo Yitzhaki Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Philippe Bacchetta
Philippe Bacchetta University of Lausanne
R. Glenn Hubbard
R. Glenn Hubbard Columbia University
James H. Stock
James H. Stock Harvard University
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Princeton University

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