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Economics and Finance

D-Index
93
Citations
71739
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
109

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
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Maurice Obstfeld is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and has a research focus grounded in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their academic contributions encompass multiple subfields, including General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Development, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Economic theories and models
  • International Development and Aid
  • Global trade and economics

The scientist has published extensively, with a significant number of works appearing in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Other important outlets include WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks and the Journal of International Economics.

Recent papers authored by Maurice Obstfeld include:

  • Trilemmas and Tradeoffs: Living with Financial Globalization, 2021, WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
  • The Global Dollar Cycle, 2022, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  • Globalization Cycles, 2020, Italian Economic Journal
  • The International Financial System after COVID-19, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Maurice Obstfeld has collaborated frequently with coauthors such as Haonan Zhou, Kimberly A. Clausing, Douglas A. Irwin, Eugenio Cerutti, and Kenneth Rogoff.

Their scholarly output also includes book publications, with a notable title being Economie Internationale (12e ed.), published in 2022 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Recognition for Maurice Obstfeld's academic work includes election to prestigious societies: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004), Fellow of the Econometric Society (1996), and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1984).

Best Publications

  • International Economics: Theory and Policy

    Paul R. Krugman;Maurice Obstfeld

  • Foundations of International Macroeconomics

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Foundations of International Macroeconomics

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth Rogoff

  • Exchange rate dynamics redux

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Risk-Taking, Global Diversification, and Growth

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • The Six Major Puzzles in International Macroeconomics: Is There a Common Cause?

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Exchange Rate Dynamics Redux

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Models of Currency Crises with Self-Fulfilling Features

    Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld

  • The mirage of fixed exchange rates

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • Risk-Taking, Global Diversification, and Growth

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • The Intertemporal Approach to the Current Account

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth Rogoff

  • Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth

    Maurice Obstfeld;Alan M. Taylor

  • The Logic of Currency Crises

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • Rational and Self-fulfilling Balance-of-Payments Crises

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • The Trilemma in History: Tradeoffs among Exchange Rates, Monetary Policies, and Capital Mobility

    Maurice Obstfeld;Jay C. Shambaugh;Alan M. Taylor

  • The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • Globalization and Capital Markets

    Maurice Obstfeld;Alan M. Taylor

  • New directions for stochastic open economy models

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace?

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • Commodity trade and international risk sharing: How much do financial markets matter?

    Harold L. Cole;Harold L. Cole;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld;Maurice Obstfeld

  • International Interest-Rate and Price-Level Linkages Under Flexible Exchange Rates: A Review of Recent Evidence

    Robert Cumby;Maurice Obstfeld

  • Stories of the Twentieth Century for the Twenty-First

    Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas;Maurice Obstfeld

  • Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves

    Maurice Obstfeld;Jay C Shambaugh;Alan M Taylor

  • Global imbalances and the financial crisis: products of common causes

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments

    Alberto Francesco Alesina;Roberto Perotti;Jose Tavares

  • Nonlinear Aspects of Goods-Market Arbitrage and Adjustment: Heckscher's Commodity Points Revisited

    Maurice Obstfeld;Alan M. Taylor

  • International Capital Mobility in the 1990s

    Maurice Obstfeld

  • Global Current Account Imbalances and Exchange Rate Adjustments

    Maurice Obstfeld;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • International capital mobility in the 1990s

    Maurice Obstfeld

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff Harvard University
Alan M. Taylor
Alan M. Taylor University of California, Davis
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman Princeton University
Kenneth A. Froot
Kenneth A. Froot Harvard University
Robert E. Cumby
Robert E. Cumby Georgetown University
Alan J. Auerbach
Alan J. Auerbach University of California, Berkeley
Marc J. Melitz
Marc J. Melitz Harvard University
Jonathan D. Ostry
Jonathan D. Ostry University of Toronto
Douglas Laxton
Douglas Laxton International Monetary Fund

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