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Varadarajan V. Chari

Varadarajan V. Chari

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
55
Citations
15013
World Ranking
1054
National Ranking
655

Varadarajan V. Chari publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Varadarajan V. Chari sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 221 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Varadarajan V. Chari D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Varadarajan V. Chari sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 55 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Varadarajan V. Chari is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, and Modeling and Simulation.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Politics, Economics, and Education Policy
  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact

Chari's recent publications span various reputable venues in the field of economics. These include:

  • "The hammer and the scalpel: On the economics of indiscriminate versus targeted isolation policies during pandemics" (2020), published in Review of Economic Dynamics
  • "Optimal Cooperative Taxation in the Global Economy" (2022), published in Journal of Political Economy
  • "The Hammer and the Scalpel: On the Economics of Indiscriminate Versus Targeted Isolation Policies During Pandemics" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Comment on Iovino, La'O and Mascarenhas, 'Optimal Monetary Policy and Disclosure with an Informationally-Constrained Central Banker'" (2021), published in Journal of Monetary Economics
  • "Larry Ball's The Fed and Lehman Brothers: A Review Essay" (2022), published in Journal of Economic Literature

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Review of Economic Dynamics
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Journal of Economic Literature

Collaboration with other researchers is a notable aspect of Chari's career. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Rishabh Kirpalani
  • Christopher Phelan
  • Juan Pablo Nicolini
  • Pedro Teles
  • Luis Fernando Pérez

In recognition of contributions to the field, Varadarajan V. Chari was named a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates

    Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick J Kehoe;Ellen R McGrattan

  • Business cycle accounting

    Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick J Kehoe;Ellen R McGrattan

  • STICKY PRICE MODELS OF THE BUSINESS CYCLE: CAN THE CONTRACT MULTIPLIER SOLVE THE PERSISTENCE PROBLEM?

    V. V. Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe;Ellen R. Mcgrattan

  • Banking Panics, Information, and Rational Expectations Equilibrium

    V. V. Chari;Ravi Jagannathan

  • Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy

    Varadarajan Chari;Patrick Kehoe

  • Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Business Cycle Model

    Varadarajan V Chari;Lawrence Christiano;Patrick Kehoe

  • New Keynesian Models: Not Yet Useful for Policy Analysis

    V. V. Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe;Ellen R. McGrattan

  • Vintage Human Capital, Growth, and the Diffusion of New Technology

    Varadarajan V Chari;Hugo Hopenhayn

  • Optimal fiscal and monetary policy: some recent results

    Varadarajan Chari;Lawrence Christiano;Patrick Kehoe

  • Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Some Recent Results

    Varadarajan V Chari;Lawrence Christiano;Patrick Kehoe

  • Inside Money, Outside Money and Short Term Interest Rates

    Varadarajan V Chari;Lawrence Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum

  • Taxing Capital Income: A Bad Idea

    Andrew Atkeson;Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick Kehoe

  • Sustainable Plans

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  • Optimality of the Friedman rule in economies with distorting taxes

    V. V. Chari;Lawrence J. Christiano;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory?

    Varadarajan V Chari;Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick J Kehoe;Patrick J Kehoe;Ellen R McGrattan;Ellen R McGrattan

  • Seasonalities in security returns: The case of earnings announcements

    V.V Chari;V.V Chari;Ravi Jagannathan;Ravi Jagannathan;Aharon R Ofer;Aharon R Ofer

  • Expectation Traps and Discretion

    V. V. Chari;Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum

  • Financial crises as herds: overturning the critiques

    Varadarajan V Chari;Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick J Kehoe;Patrick J Kehoe;Patrick J Kehoe

  • Modern Macroeconomics in Practice: How Theory Is Shaping Policy

    Varadarajan V. Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Sudden Stops and Output Drops

    Varadarajan Chari;Patrick Kehoe;Ellen McGrattan

  • The Economics of Split-Ticket Voting in Representative Democracies

    V. V. Chari;Larry E. Jones;Ramon Marimon;Ramon Marimon

  • International Coordination of Fiscal Policy in Limiting Economies

    Varadarajan V Chari;Patrick Kehoe

  • Expectation Traps and Monetary Policy

    Stefania Albanesi;V. V. Chari;Lawrence J. Christiano

  • Chapter 26 Optimal fiscal and monetary policy

    V.V. Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe

  • Sudden Stops and Output Drops

    V V Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe;Ellen R. McGrattan

  • Inside Money, Outside Money and Short Term Interest Rates

    Varadarajan V. Chari;Varadarajan V. Chari;Varadarajan V. Chari;Lawrence J. Christiano;Martin Eichenbaum;Martin Eichenbaum

  • Can Sticky Price Models Generate Volatile and Persistent Real Exchange Rates

    Varadarajan V. Chari;Varadarajan V. Chari;Varadarajan V. Chari;Patrick J. Kehoe;Patrick J. Kehoe;Patrick J. Kehoe;Ellen R. McGrattan;Ellen R. McGrattan;Ellen R. McGrattan

  • Sticky price models of the business cycle: can the contract multiplier solve the persistence problem?

    Varadarajan Chari;Patrick Kehoe;Ellen McGrattan

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Kehoe
Patrick J. Kehoe Stanford University
Ellen R. McGrattan
Ellen R. McGrattan University of Minnesota
Lawrence J. Christiano
Lawrence J. Christiano Northwestern University
Larry E. Jones
Larry E. Jones University of Minnesota
Andrew Atkeson
Andrew Atkeson University of California, Los Angeles
Ravi Jagannathan
Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University
Mikhail Golosov
Mikhail Golosov University of Chicago
Martin Eichenbaum
Martin Eichenbaum Northwestern University
Aleh Tsyvinski
Aleh Tsyvinski Yale University
Edward C. Prescott
Edward C. Prescott Arizona State University

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