2026 William R. Zame: 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	37	2672	2421	1490	1312	120	6611

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1994 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

William R. Zame is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of economics, econometrics, and finance with significant contributions to statistical methods and artificial intelligence.

Their work spans several key topics, including:

Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Economic Theories and Models
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Machine Learning and Data Classification
Statistical Methods and Inference
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies

Zame's publications reveal a concentration in statistical and computational approaches, particularly related to clinical trials and economic modeling. The scientist has contributed to various papers, notable recent ones include:

"Machine learning for clinical trials in the era of COVID-19" (2020), published in Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
"Integrating Expert ODEs into Neural ODEs: Pharmacology and Disease Progression" (2021), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Learning outside the Black-Box: The pursuit of interpretable models" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)
"Robust Recursive Partitioning for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Uncertainty Quantification" (2020), published on arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors include:

Mihaela van der Schaar (9 collaborations)
Cong Shen (4 collaborations)
Hyun-Suk Lee (4 collaborations)
Jang-Won Lee (3 collaborations)
Yao Zhang (2 collaborations)

Zame's research outputs have been predominantly published in the following venues:

arXiv (Cornell University) with 8 publications
SSRN Electronic Journal with 3 publications
Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Journal of Public Economics

Their main fields of study highlight economics and econometrics with cross-disciplinary work in statistics and artificial intelligence. Subfields include statistics and probability, artificial intelligence, economics and econometrics, finance, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Recognized for their academic contributions, William R. Zame has received honors including:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004
Fellows of the Econometric Society in 1994

Best Publications

DeepHit: A Deep Learning Approach to Survival Analysis With Competing Risks

Changhee Lee;William R. Zame;Jinsung Yoon;Mihaela van der Schaar

567
Citations
Status in Markets

Sheryl Ball;Catherine Eckel;Philip J. Grossman;William Zame

556
Citations
Ambiguity in Asset Markets: Theory and Experiment

Peter Bossaerts;Paolo Ghirardato;Serena Guarnaschelli;William R. Zame

449
Citations
Discontinuous games and endogenous sharing rules

Leo K. Simon;William R. Zame

368
Citations
Efficiency and the Role of Default When Security Markets Are Incomplete

William R. Zame

288
Citations
THE CONSUMPTION-BASED CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL

Darrell Duffie;William Zame

288
Citations
The Limits of ex post Implementation

Philippe Jehiel;Moritz Meyer-ter-Vehn;Benny Moldovanu;William R. Zame

249
Citations
Equilibrium theory in infinite dimensional spaces

Andreu Mas-Colell;William Zame

241
Citations
Clubs and the Market

Bryan Ellickson;Birgit Grodal;Suzanne Scotchmer;William R. Zame

227
Citations
Collateral equilibrium, I: a basic framework

John Geanakoplos;John Geanakoplos;William R. Zame

196
Citations
Communication and equilibrium in discontinuous games of incomplete information

Matthew O. Jackson;Leo K. Simon;Jeroen M. Swinkels;William R. Zame

183
Citations
The nonatomic assignment model

Neil E. Gretsky;Joseph M. Ostroy;William R. Zame;William R. Zame

177
Citations
EQUILIBRIA IN BANACH LATTICES WITHOUT ORDERED PREFERENCES

Nicholas C. Yannelis;William R. Zame;William R. Zame

160
Citations
Debt constraints and equilibrium in infinite horizon economies with incomplete markets

David K. Levine;William R. Zame;William R. Zame

160
Citations
Does Market Incompleteness Matter

David K. Levine;William R. Zame

157
Citations
THE ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY OF PERFECT AND SEQUENTIAL EQUILIBRIUM

Lawrence E. Blume;William R. Zame

135
Citations
Genericity with Infinitely Many Parameters

Robert M. Anderson;William R. Zame

125
Citations
Can intergenerational equity be operationalized

William R. Zame

115
Citations
PERFECT COMPETITION IN THE CONTINUOUS ASSIGNMENT MODEL

Neil E. Gretsky;Joseph M. Ostroy;William R. Zame

115
Citations
Competitive Equilibria in Production Economies with an Infinite-Dimensional Commodity Space

William R. Zame

114
Citations
Status in Markets

Catherine C. Eckel;Sheryl B. Ball;Philip J. Grossman;William R. Zame

62
Citations
Chapter 34 Equilibrium theory in infinite dimensional spaces

Andreu Mas-Colell;William R. Zame

62
Citations
Discontinous Games and Endogenous Sharing Rules

Leo K. Simon;William R. Zame

30
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Mihaela van der Schaar University of Cambridge

Peter Bossaerts University of Cambridge

David K. Levine Royal Holloway University of London

John Geanakoplos Yale University

Charles R. Plott California Institute of Technology

Myrna Holtz Wooders Vanderbilt University

Benny Moldovanu University of Bonn

Jang-Won Lee Yonsei University

Andreu Mas-Colell Pompeu Fabra University

Philippe Jehiel Paris School of Economics

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