Michael McMahon

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 825 citations indexed

About

Michael McMahon is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Finance. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael McMahon has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 825 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 17 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 9 papers in Finance. Recurrent topics in Michael McMahon's work include Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (15 papers), Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (4 papers) and Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (4 papers). Michael McMahon is often cited by papers focused on Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (15 papers), Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (4 papers) and Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (4 papers). Michael McMahon collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Michael McMahon's co-authors include Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, Andrew Haldane, Francesco Giavazzi, Matthew Tong, Alfred Schipke, Carlos Velasco Rivera, Xiang Li, Anna Cieślak and Jeff Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Econometrics.

In The Last Decade

Michael McMahon

34 papers receiving 764 citations

Hit Papers

Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computat... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach*
    2017 352 citations Stephen Hansen, Michael McMahon et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael McMahon United Kingdom 10 489 382 274 150 101 40 825
Enghin Atalay United States 10 779 1.6× 334 0.9× 332 1.2× 87 0.6× 122 1.2× 22 1.0k
Emilio Colombo Italy 14 267 0.5× 91 0.2× 80 0.3× 61 0.4× 107 1.1× 33 530
Carin van der Cruijsen Netherlands 18 440 0.9× 240 0.6× 290 1.1× 133 0.9× 243 2.4× 67 820
Alessio D’Ignazio Italy 15 334 0.7× 113 0.3× 186 0.7× 212 1.4× 135 1.3× 38 692
Alisdair McKay United States 14 942 1.9× 567 1.5× 244 0.9× 60 0.4× 188 1.9× 23 1.3k
Victor Polterovich Russia 14 305 0.6× 281 0.7× 69 0.3× 114 0.8× 26 0.3× 89 808
Riccardo De Bonis Italy 12 675 1.4× 259 0.7× 333 1.2× 57 0.4× 161 1.6× 39 838
Rossana Merola Switzerland 11 288 0.6× 142 0.4× 113 0.4× 65 0.4× 48 0.5× 27 486
Jason Dietrich United States 12 460 0.9× 108 0.3× 412 1.5× 153 1.0× 302 3.0× 29 830
Andrés Erosa Canada 15 944 1.9× 335 0.9× 101 0.4× 149 1.0× 357 3.5× 31 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael McMahon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael McMahon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael McMahon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael McMahon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael McMahon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael McMahon. Michael McMahon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cieślak, Anna, et al.. (2024). Did I Make Myself Clear? The Fed and the Market in the Post-2020 Framework Period. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
2.
McMahon, Michael & Matthew Naylor. (2024). Getting through: communicating complex information. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2024). Mind your language: Market responses to central bank speeches. Journal of Econometrics. 249. 105921–105921. 2 indexed citations
4.
McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2024). Beyond Pangloss: Financial sector origins of inefficient economic booms. Journal of Monetary Economics. 145. 103558–103558. 1 indexed citations
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McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2023). Mind Your Language: Market Responses to Central Bank Speeches. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Cieślak, Anna, et al.. (2023). Policymakers' Uncertainty. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Cieślak, Anna & Michael McMahon. (2023). Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2021). Extracting Economic Signals from Central Bank Speeches. 93–114.
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Cieślak, Anna, et al.. (2021). Policymakers' Uncertainty. SSRN Electronic Journal. 8 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen, Michael McMahon, & Matthew Tong. (2020). The Long-Run Information Effect of Central Bank Communication. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen, Michael McMahon, & Matthew Tong. (2019). The long-run information effect of central bank communication. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Haldane, Andrew & Michael McMahon. (2018). Central Bank Communications and the General Public. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 108. 578–583. 100 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen, Michael McMahon, & Andrea Prat. (2017). Transparency and Deliberation Within the FOMC: A Computational Linguistics Approach*. The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 133(2). 801–870. 352 indexed citations breakdown →
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McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2015). QE and the Bank Lending Channel in the United Kingdom. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen, Michael McMahon, & Carlos Velasco Rivera. (2014). Preferences or private assessments on a monetary policy committee?. Journal of Monetary Economics. 67. 16–32. 26 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen, Michael McMahon, & Carlos Velasco Rivera. (2013). How Expoerts Decide: Preferences or Private Assessments on a Monetary Policy Committee?. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Hansen, Stephen & Michael McMahon. (2012). First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics. The Review of Economic Studies. 83(4). 1645–1672. 5 indexed citations
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McMahon, Michael, et al.. (2005). The Role of ICT in the Global Investment Cycle. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Alessie, Rob, Agar Brugiavini, Guglielmo Weber, Mihir A. Desai, & Michael McMahon. (2004). Saving and Cohabitation: The Economic Consequences of Living with One's Parents in Italy and the Netherlands [with Comments]. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2004(1). 413–457. 1 indexed citations
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Pembroke, J. Tony, et al.. (1995). Purification and characterisation of a cellulose binding endoxylanase fromCellulomonas flavigena. Biotechnology Letters. 17(3). 331–334. 4 indexed citations

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