2026 Matthew D. Shapiro: 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	56	987	880	616	536	189	16782

Research.com Recognitions

1991 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Matthew D. Shapiro is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States and conducts research in the field of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans several subfields such as economics and econometrics, emergency medicine, marketing, general economics, econometrics and finance, and demography.

Their research addresses a range of topics including consumer market behavior and pricing, economics of agriculture and food markets, monetary policy and economic impact, retirement, disability and employment, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, gender, labor and family dynamics, and cardiac arrest and resuscitation.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Matthew D. Shapiro include:

"Older Americans Would Work Longer if Jobs Were Flexible," 2020, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"The Response of Consumer Spending to Changes in Gasoline Prices," 2023, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"Rational Illiquidity and Consumption: Theory and Evidence from Income Tax Withholding and Refunds," 2022, American Economic Review
"Prehospital Naloxone Administration Patterns during the Era of Synthetic Opioids," 2023, Prehospital Emergency Care
"EMS Non-Transport of Low-Risk COVID-19 Patients," 2022, Prehospital Emergency Care

Matthew D. Shapiro frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including:

Gabriel Ehrlich
John Haltiwanger
Laura Zhao
Andrew Caplin
Min Joon Lee

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Prehospital Emergency Care
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
AI Magazine
American Economic Review

Matthew D. Shapiro's career includes recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, awarded in 1991.

Best Publications

Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Study

Robert B. Barsky;F. Thomas Juster;Miles S. Kimball;Matthew D. Shapiro

3203
Citations
Costly Capital Reallocation and the Effects of Government Spending

Valerie A. Ramey;Matthew D. Shapiro

1699
Citations
Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

Matthew D. Shapiro;Mark W. Watson

1460
Citations
Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

Matthew D. Shapiro;Mark W. Watson

1272
Citations
The Stock Market Investments: Is the Market a Sideshow?

Randall Morck;Andrei Shleifer;Robert W Vishny

1054
Citations
Consumer response to the timing of income: Evidence from a change in tax withholding

Matthew D Shapiro;Joel Slemrod

742
Citations
Risk and Return: Consumption versus Market Beta

N. Gregory Mankiw;Matthew D. Shapiro

581
Citations
Displaced Capital: A Study of Aerospace Plant Closings

Valerie A. Ramey;Matthew D. Shapiro

579
Citations
Consumer response to tax rebates

Matthew D Shapiro;Joel Slemrod

560
Citations
The Dynamic Demand for Capital and Labor

Matthew D. Shapiro

526
Citations
News or Noise? An Analysis of GNP Revisions

N. Gregory Mankiw;Matthew Shapiro

481
Citations
Temporary Investment Tax Incentives: Theory with Evidence from Bonus Depreciation

Christopher L. House;Matthew D. Shapiro

476
Citations
Productivity growth in the 1990s: technology, utilization, or adjustment?

Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

471
Citations
Do we reject too often?: Small sample properties of tests of rational expectations models

N. Gregory Mankiw;Matthew D. Shapiro

429
Citations
Productivity Growth in the 1990s: Technology, Utilization, or Adjustment?

Susanto Basu;Susanto Basu;John G. Fernald;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

383
Citations
Imputing Risk Tolerance from Survey Responses

Miles S Kimball;Claudia R Sahm;Matthew D Shapiro

376
Citations
Risk and Return: Consumption Versus Market Beta

N. Gregory Mankiw;N. Gregory Mankiw;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

376
Citations
Consumer Response to the Timing of Income: Evidence from a Change in Tax Withholding

Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro;Joel B. Slemrod;Joel B. Slemrod

358
Citations
Labor Supply: Are the Income and Substitution Effects Both Large or Both Small?

Miles Kimball;Matthew Shapiro

352
Citations
Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey

Robert Barsky;Robert Barsky;Robert Barsky;Miles S. Kimball;F. Thomas Juster;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

350
Citations
An Unbiased Reexamination of Stock Market Volatility

N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer;Matthew D. Shapiro

343
Citations
An Unbiased Reexamination of Stock Market Volatility

N. Gregory Mankiw;David Romer;Matthew D. Shapiro

342
Citations
Mismeasurement in the Consumer Price Index: An Evaluation

Matthew Shapiro;David Wilcox

330
Citations
Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows

Dolan Antenucci;Michael Cafarella;Margaret Levenstein;Christopher Ré

296
Citations
Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending

Matthew Shapiro;Joel Slemrod

257
Citations
Are preliminary announcements of the money stock rational forecasts

N.Gregory Mankiw;David E. Runkle;Matthew D. Shapiro

255
Citations
Trends, random walks, and tests of the permanent income hypothesis

N. Gregory Mankiw;Matthew D. Shapiro

245
Citations
Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations

Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro;Mark W. Watson;Mark W. Watson

150
Citations
Costly Capital Reallocation and the Effects of Government Spending

Valerie A. Ramey;Valerie A. Ramey;Matthew D. Shapiro;Matthew D. Shapiro

139
Citations
Preference Parameters and Behavioral Heterogeneity: An Experimental Approach in the Health and Retirement Survey

Robert Barsky;Miles Kimball;F. Juster;Matthew Shapiro

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Andrew Caplin New York University

Miles S. Kimball University of Colorado Boulder

Yuriy Gorodnichenko University of California, Berkeley

Steven Tadelis University of California, Berkeley

Valerie A. Ramey University of California, San Diego

Ron S. Jarmin United States Census Bureau

John Haltiwanger University of Maryland, College Park

Robert C. Feenstra University of California, Davis

Kathryn M.E. Dominguez University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

External Links

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