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D-Index
74
Citations
19793
World Ranking
375
National Ranking
255

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1981 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Stephen J. Turnovsky is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has an extensive publication record primarily in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans a variety of subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, and Development.

The research topics they focus on include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Turnovsky demonstrate the range and depth of their research interests. These include:

  • Productive government expenditure and its impact on income inequality: evidence from international panel data, 2021, Review of World Economics
  • Endogenous labor migration and remittances: Macroeconomic and welfare consequences, 2023, Journal of Development Economics
  • International financial integration, the level of development, and income inequality: Some empirical evidence, 2022, International Review of Economics & Finance
  • Re-opening after the lockdown: Long-run aggregate and distributional consequences of COVID-19, 2021, Journal of Mathematical Economics
  • Economic growth and inequality tradeoffs under progressive taxation, 2022, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Open Economies Review
  • Journal of Public Economic Theory
  • Journal of Macroeconomics
  • Journal of Human Capital

Collaborations with other researchers are notable in Turnovsky's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yoichi Gokan
  • Zinan Wang
  • Santanu Chatterjee
  • Iñaki Erauskin
  • Sokchea Lim

Turnovsky's contributions have been recognized within the professional community, including the award of Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Methods of macroeconomic dynamics

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Mathematical Theories of Economic Growth

    Edwin Burmeister;Rodney Dobell;Robert M. Solow;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Fiscal policy, elastic labor supply, and endogenous growth

    Stephen J Turnovsky

  • International Macroeconomic Dynamics

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Optimal tax, debt, and expenditure policies in a growing economy

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Public Investment, Congestion, and Private Capital Accumulation

    Walter H. Fisher;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • The composition of government expenditure and its consequences for macroeconomic performance

    Stephen J. Turnovsky;Walter H. Fisher

  • Advances in Economics and Econometrics: Theory and Applications, Eighth World Congress

    Mathias Dewatripont;Lars Peter Hansen;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Empirical Evidence on the Formation of Price Expectations

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Advances in economics and econometrics :theory and applications

    Mathias Dewatripont;Lars Peter Hansen;Stephen Turnovsky

  • CONSUMER'S SURPLUS, PRICE INSTABILITY, AND CONSUMER WELFARE

    Stephen J. Turnovsky;Haim Shalit;Andrew Schmitz

  • Consumption externalities, production externalities, and long-run macroeconomic efficiency

    Wen-Fang Liu;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • FISCAL POLICY IN A GROWING ECONOMY WITH PUBLIC CAPITAL

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • SAFETY- FIRST AND EXPECTED UTILITY MAXIMIZATION IN MEAN-STANDARD DEVIATION PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS

    David H. Pyle;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Habit Formation, Catching Up with the Joneses, and Economic Growth

    Francisco Alvarez-Cuadrado;Goncalo Monteiro;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • The Transitional Dynamics of Fiscal Policy: Long-Run Capital Accumulation and Growth

    Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Models of monetary economies

    Stephen J. Turnovsky;John H. Kareken;Neil Wallace

  • Unilateral capital transfers, public investment, and economic growth

    Santanu Chatterjee;Georgios Sakoulis;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Growth and income inequality: a canonical model*

    Cecilia García-Peñalosa;Stephen J. Turnovsky

  • Non‐scale Models of Economic Growth

    Theo S. Eicher;Stephen J. Turnovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Theo S. Eicher
Theo S. Eicher University of Washington
Mathias Dewatripont
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen University of Chicago
Jonathan Eaton
Jonathan Eaton Pennsylvania State University
Tamer Basar
Tamer Basar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark E. Wohar
Mark E. Wohar University of Nebraska at Omaha
Andrew Schmitz
Andrew Schmitz University of Florida
Joshua Aizenman
Joshua Aizenman University of Southern California
Chris Papageorgiou
Chris Papageorgiou International Monetary Fund
Neil C. Bruce
Neil C. Bruce University of York

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