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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
103
Citations
59907
World Ranking
86
National Ranking
69

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
  • 2011 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
  • 2011 - Nobel Prize for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy
  • 2008 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 1983 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Thomas J. Sargent is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research spans key areas in economics, econometrics, and finance, with a significant focus on monetary policy, economic impact, and fiscal policy. Their work contributes to understanding economic theories, models, and decision-making processes within political economy and labor markets.

Their recent papers include:

  • Inequality, Business Cycles, and Monetary-Fiscal Policy, 2021, Econometrica
  • Three world wars: Fiscal-monetary consequences, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Writing with generative AI and human-machine teaming: Insights and recommendations from faculty and students, 2024, Computers & composition/Computers and composition
  • Structured ambiguity and model misspecification, 2020, Journal of Economic Theory
  • Shotgun Wedding: Fiscal and Monetary Policy, 2020, Annual Review of Economics

Frequent co-authors include John Stachurski, Lars Peter Hansen, Lars Ljungqvist, Neng Wang, and George Hall.

Common publication venues where the scientist has contributed multiple works are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Quarterly Review
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has published books with Cambridge University Press, including "Economic Networks" (2024) and "Dynamic Programming" (2025). Other book publications include "A Monetary and Fiscal History of Latin America, 1960-2017" (2020) with University of Minnesota Press and "Lives of the Laureates" (2020) with The MIT Press.

The main fields of study for Thomas J. Sargent are Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

The subfields include:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • General Health Professions
  • Finance
  • General Decision Sciences

Main topics of their research work cover:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Economic theories and models
  • Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

Awards received by the scientist include the Nobel Memorial Prize laureate in Economics and the Nobel Prize in 2011 for empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy. Other recognitions include Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2008), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1983), Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1983), and Fellow of the Econometric Society (1976).

Best Publications

  • Some Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic

    Thomas J. Sargent;Neil Wallace

  • "Rational" Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule

    Thomas J. Sargent;Neil Wallace

  • Recursive Macroeconomic Theory

    Lars Ljungqvist;Thomas J. Sargent

  • Drifts and volatilities: monetary policies and outcomes in the post WWII US

    Timothy Cogley;Thomas J. Sargent;Thomas J. Sargent

  • Robust Control and Model Uncertainty

    Lars Peter Hansen;Thomas J Sargent

  • Business Cycle Modeling Without Pretending to Have Too Much a Priori Economic Theory

    Thomas Sargent;C.A. Sims

  • Bounded rationality in macroeconomics

    Thomas J. Sargent

  • FORMULATING AND ESTIMATING DYNAMIC LINEAR RATIONAL EXPECTATIONS MODELS

    Lars Peter Hansen;Thomas J. Sargent

  • The European unemployment dilemma

    Lars Ljungqvist;Thomas J. Sargent

  • Dynamic Macroeconomic Theory

    Thomas J. Sargent

  • Rational expectations and the theory of economic policy

    Thomas J. Sargent;Neil Wallace

  • The Conquest of American Inflation

    Thomas J. Sargent

  • Convergence of Least Squares Learning Mechanisms in Self- Referential Linear Stochastic Models*

    Albert Marcet;Thomas J Sargent

  • Bounded Rationality in Macroeconomics

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  • The Conquest of American Inflation

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  • Estimation of dynamic labor demand schedules under rational expectations

    Thomas J. Sargent

  • Optimal Taxation without State-Contingent Debt

    S. Rao Aiyagari;Albert Marcet;Thomas J. Sargent;Juha Seppälä

  • A Classical Macroeconometric Model for the United States

    Thomas J. Sargent

  • Evolving Post-World War II U.S. Inflation Dynamics

    Timothy Cogley;Thomas Sargent

  • Inflation-Gap Persistence in the US

    Timothy Cogley;Giorgio E. Primiceri;Thomas J. Sargent

  • Drifts and Volatilities: Monetary Policies and Outcomes in the Post WWII U.S.

    Timothy Cogley;Thomas J. Sargent;Thomas J. Sargent

  • Rational Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule: Working Paper No. 25

    Thomas Sargent;Neil Wallace

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Peter Hansen
Lars Peter Hansen University of Chicago
Timothy Cogley
Timothy Cogley New York University
Neil Wallace
Neil Wallace Pennsylvania State University
Mikhail Golosov
Mikhail Golosov University of Chicago
Albert Marcet
Albert Marcet Pompeu Fabra University
David Evans
David Evans University of Bristol
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania
Tao Zha
Tao Zha Emory University
Seppo Honkapohja
Seppo Honkapohja Aalto University

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