72 faculty and 0 courses in Economics at Harvard University.
- Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics h-index 152
Notable: “Law and Finance” (1998) · 18,121 citations
- Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School; Affiliate of Economics h-index 130
Notable: “Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response” (2020) · 5,063 citations
- Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor h-index 114
Notable: “Development as Freedom” (1999) · 13,549 citations
- Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics h-index 112
Notable: “Growth in Cities” (1992) · 4,594 citations
- Robert Barro, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics h-index 107
Notable: “Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries” (1989) · 8,506 citations
- Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor h-index 106
Notable: “Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets” (1990) · 6,386 citations
- James Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy h-index 102
Notable: “Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments” (1997) · 7,334 citations
- Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics h-index 98
Notable: “Empirical exchange rate models of the seventies” (1983) · 4,151 citations
- Jeremy Stein, Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics h-index 96
Notable: “Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies” (1993) · 3,065 citations
- David M. Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics; Dean of Social Science, FAS h-index 96
Notable: “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States” (2016) · 2,807 citations
- John Y. Campbell, Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics h-index 92
Notable: “The Dividend-Price Ratio and Expectations of Future Dividends and Discount Factors” (1988) · 3,983 citations
- Elhanan Helpman, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade h-index 90
Notable: “Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy.” (1993) · 6,374 citations
- Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics h-index 89
Notable: “Changes in Relative Wages, : Supply and Demand Factors” (1992) · 4,534 citations
- David Laibson, Robert I. Goldman Professor of Economics h-index 87
Notable: “Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting” (1997) · 6,153 citations
- N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics h-index 83
Notable: “A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth” (1992) · 15,142 citations
- Xavier Gabaix, Pershing Square Professor of Economics and Finance h-index 74
Notable: “Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation” (1999) · 2,065 citations
- Claudia Goldin, Samuel W. Morris University Professor; Henry Lee Professor of Economics h-index 74
Notable: “A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter” (2014) · 2,548 citations
- Jeffrey Williamson, Laird Bell Professor of Economics, Emeritus h-index 74
Notable: “Regional Inequality and the Process of National Development: A Description of the Patterns” (1965) · 1,719 citations
- Oliver Hart, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor h-index 72
Notable: “The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration” (1986) · 9,524 citations
- Eric S. Maskin, Adams University Professor h-index 69
Notable: “The Folk Theorem in Repeated Games with Discounting or with Incomplete Information” (1986) · 2,411 citations
- Neil Shephard, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of Science h-index 69
Notable: “Econometric Analysis of Realized Volatility and its Use in Estimating Stochastic Volatility Models” (2002) · 2,314 citations
- Matthew Rabin, Pershing Square Professor of Behavioral Economics h-index 56
Notable: “Doing It Now or Later” (1999) · 3,154 citations
- Raj Chetty, William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics; Director of Opportunity Insights h-index 55
Notable: “Where is the land of Opportunity? The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States *” (2014) · 2,900 citations
- Ariel Pakes, Thomas Professor of Economics h-index 55
Notable: “Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium” (1995) · 5,067 citations
- Jesse Shapiro, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration h-index 50
Notable: “Why Have Americans Become More Obese?” (2003) · 1,325 citations
- Roland Fryer, Professor of Economics h-index 50
Notable: “The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names” (2004) · 664 citations
- Pol Antràs, Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics h-index 47
International economics and applied theory; global production, firms, contracts, and trade structure.
Notable: “Global Sourcing” (2004) · 1,124 citations
- Benjamin Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy h-index 46
Notable: “Systematic Monetary Policy and the Effects of Oil Price Shocks” (1997) · 1,605 citations
- Stefanie Stantcheva, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy h-index 40
Notable: “How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments” (2015) · 1,075 citations
- Marc Melitz, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy h-index 38
Notable: “Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms” (2004) · 4,061 citations
- Gita Gopinath, Gregory and Ania Coffey Professor of Economics h-index 37
Notable: “Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend” (2007) · 1,479 citations
- David Deming, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics h-index 32
Notable: “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market*” (2017) · 1,615 citations
- Samuel Hanson, William L. White Professor of Business Administration, HBS; Affiliate of Economics h-index 32
Notable: “A Macroprudential Approach to Financial Regulation” (2011) · 975 citations
- Dwight Perkins, Harold Hitchigs Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus h-index 32
Notable: “Completing China's Move to the Market” (1994) · 301 citations
- Scott Kominers, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, HBS; Affiliate of Economics h-index 32
Notable: “Computer vision uncovers predictors of physical urban change” (2017) · 291 citations
- Karen Dynan, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 30
Notable: “Do the Rich Save More?” (2004) · 1,027 citations
- David Yang, Yvonne P. L. Lui Professor of Economics h-index 30
Notable: “Polarization and public health: Partisan differences in social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic” (2020) · 1,028 citations
- Stephen Marglin, Walter S. Barker Professor of Economics h-index 29
Notable: “What Do Bosses Do?” (1974) · 1,363 citations
- Oleg Itskhoki, Slusky Family Professor of Economics h-index 29
Notable: “Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy” (2010) · 895 citations
- Elie Tamer, Louis Berkman Professor of Economics; Department Chair h-index 29
- Benjamin Enke, Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy h-index 28
Notable: “Global Evidence on Economic Preferences*” (2018) · 1,640 citations
- Jeffrey Miron, Senior Lecturer on Economics; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 28
Notable: “Financial Panics, the Seasonality of the Nominal Interest Rate, and the Founding of the Fed” (1986) · 322 citations
- Jerry Green, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy h-index 27
Notable: “Characterization of Satisfactory Mechanisms for the Revelation of Preferences for Public Goods” (1977) · 821 citations
- Adi Sunderam, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, HBS; Affiliate of Economics h-index 25
Notable: “Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System” (2014) · 237 citations
- Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, George Fisher Baker Professor of Economics h-index 24
Notable: “The Employment Effects of Credit Market Disruptions: Firm-level Evidence from the 2008–9 Financial Crisis*” (2013) · 1,529 citations
- Amanda Pallais, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics h-index 24
Notable: “Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements” (2017) · 810 citations
- Christopher Foote, Professor of the Practice of Economics h-index 24
Notable: “Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis” (2012) · 203 citations
- Ludwig Straub, Professor of Economics h-index 23
Notable: “Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages?” (2020) · 760 citations
- Emily Breza, Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics h-index 23
Notable: “The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality*” (2017) · 364 citations
- Melissa Dell, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics h-index 22
Notable: “What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature” (2014) · 2,225 citations
- Rebecca Diamond, Martin Feldstein Professor of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “The Determinants and Welfare Implications of US Workers' Diverging Location Choices by Skill: 1980–2000” (2016) · 987 citations
- Vincent Pons, Byron Wien Professor of Business Administration, HBS; Affiliate of Economics h-index 20
Notable: “Gender differences in COVID-19 attitudes and behavior: Panel evidence from eight countries” (2020) · 900 citations
- Tomasz Strzalecki, Henry Lee Professor of Economics h-index 17
Notable: “Axiomatic Foundations of Multiplier Preferences” (2011) · 273 citations
- Myrto Kalouptsidi, Augustus Cobb Professor of International Economics h-index 14
Notable: “Time to Build and Fluctuations in Bulk Shipping” (2014) · 196 citations
- Gabriel Kreindler, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 13
Notable: “Debunking the Stereotype of the Lazy Welfare Recipient: Evidence from Cash Transfer Programs” (2017) · 332 citations
- Maxim Boycko, Senior Preceptor h-index 12
Notable: “A Theory of Privatisation” (1996) · 1,199 citations
- Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy h-index 12
Notable: “Economic Crises: Evidence and Insights from East Asia” (1998) · 1,033 citations
- Shengwu Li, Professor of Economics h-index 12
Notable: “Thickness and Information in Dynamic Matching Markets” (2019) · 157 citations
- Robin Lee, Professor of Economics h-index 11
Notable: ““Nash-in-Nash” Bargaining: A Microfoundation for Applied Work” (2018) · 182 citations
- Augustin Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 6
Notable: “The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States” (2016) · 2,807 citations
- Davide Viviano, Assistant Professor of Economics h-index 6
- Alvin Roth, George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration, Emeritus
- Andres Maggi, Lecturer
- Anne Le Brun, Lecturer/Advisor
- Daniel Graves, Assistant Professor of Economics
- David Martin, Senior Preceptor, EC10
- Gregory Bruich, Lecturer/Advisor
- Kiran Gajwani, Associate Director of Undergraduate Advising; Lecturer/Advisor
- Lea Nagel, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Rahul Singh, Assistant Professor of Economics
- Richard B. Freeman, Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics
- Thomas Baranga, Lecturer/Advisor
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