| How social security and medicare affect retirement behavior in a world of incomplete markets J Rust, C Phelan Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 781-831, 1997 | 1326 | 1997 |
| Computing multi-period, information-constrained optima C Phelan, RM Townsend The Review of Economic Studies 58 (5), 853-881, 1991 | 453 | 1991 |
| A recursive formulation for repeated agency with history dependence A Fernandes, C Phelan Journal of Economic Theory 91 (2), 223-247, 2000 | 306 | 2000 |
| Explaining the fiscal theory of the price level N Kocherlakota, C Phelan Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review 23 (4), 14-23, 1999 | 269 | 1999 |
| Sequential equilibria in a Ramsey tax model C Phelan, E Stacchetti Econometrica 69 (6), 1491-1518, 2001 | 254 | 2001 |
| Public trust and government betrayal C Phelan Journal of Economic Theory 130 (1), 27-43, 2006 | 238 | 2006 |
| Repeated moral hazard and one-sided commitment C Phelan Journal of Economic Theory 66 (2), 488-506, 1995 | 204 | 1995 |
| Reconsidering the costs of business cycles with incomplete markets A Atkeson, C Phelan NBER macroeconomics annual 9, 187-207, 1994 | 202 | 1994 |
| Opportunity and social mobility C Phelan The Review of Economic Studies 73 (2), 487-504, 2006 | 110 | 2006 |
| The aggregate effects of sectoral reallocations C Phelan, A Trejos Journal of Monetary Economics 45 (2), 249-268, 2000 | 107 | 2000 |
| On the long run implications of repeated moral hazard C Phelan Journal of Economic Theory 79 (2), 174-191, 1998 | 95 | 1998 |
| Incentives and aggregate shocks C Phelan The Review of Economic Studies 61 (4), 681-700, 1994 | 73 | 1994 |
| Tax riots M Bassetto, C Phelan The Review of Economic Studies 75 (3), 649-669, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| The hammer and the scalpel: On the economics of indiscriminate versus targeted isolation policies during pandemics VV Chari, R Kirpalani, C Phelan Review of Economic Dynamics 42, 1-14, 2021 | 54 | 2021 |
| On the social usefulness of fractional reserve banking VV Chari, C Phelan Journal of Monetary Economics 65, 1-13, 2014 | 42 | 2014 |
| Reputation and sovereign default M Amador, C Phelan Econometrica 89 (4), 1979-2010, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
| Beliefs and private monitoring C Phelan, A Skrzypacz Review of Economic Studies 79 (4), 1637-1660, 2012 | 29 | 2012 |
| On the robustness of laissez-faire N Kocherlakota, C Phelan Journal of Economic Theory 144 (6), 2372-2387, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
| Speculative runs on interest rate pegs M Bassetto, C Phelan Journal of Monetary Economics 73, 99-114, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Pareto efficiency and identity C Phelan, A Rustichini Theoretical Economics 13 (3), 979-1007, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
