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Economic and Fiscal Studies

Economic and Fiscal Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the economic implications of taxation policies and systems, including topics such as tax expenditures, fiscal policy, global economy, income taxation, government spending, corporate sovereignty, excise taxation, and financial management.

  • Tax Expenditures
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Global Economy
  • Income Taxation
  • Government Spending
  • Economic Development
  • Public Finance
  • Corporate Sovereignty
  • Excise Taxation
  • Financial Management
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-41%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic and Fiscal Studies

Which countries lead Economic and Fiscal Studies research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (649 and 56 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 649 works
  2. 2 Russia 56 works
  3. 3 Czechia 55 works
  4. 4 United States 53 works
  5. 5 Ukraine 50 works
  6. 6 Romania 39 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 36 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 29 works
  9. 9 France 20 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 18 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Poland: 64.6%Russia: 5.5%Czechia: 5.5%United States: 5.3%6 others listed: 19.0%65%largest
Poland649 · 64.6%Russia56 · 5.5%Czechia55 · 5.5%United States53 · 5.3%6 others listed191 · 19.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Economic and Fiscal Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Warsaw publishes the most Economic and Fiscal Studies research, followed by University of Łódź and University of Szczecin.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WarsawPoland 37 works
  2. 2 University of ŁódźPoland 35 works
  3. 3 University of SzczecinPoland 30 works
  4. 4 SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 28 works
  5. 5 Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w CiechanowiePoland 22 works
  6. 6 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 21 works
  7. 7 University of GdańskPoland 21 works
  8. 8 Krakow University of EconomicsPoland 20 works
  9. 9 Poznań University of Economics and BusinessPoland 18 works
  10. 10 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic and Fiscal Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic and Fiscal Studies include Michael E. Porter and Gary S. Becker.

  1. 1 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Gary S. Becker United States 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Economic and Fiscal Studies?

The most cited paper in Economic and Fiscal Studies is "Consumer Demand. A New Approach." (John Denis Sargan, Kelvin J. Lancaster, 1972), with 1,059 citations. Next come "When Does Privatization Work? The Impact of Private Ownership on Corporate Performance in the Transition Economies" (716) and "HOW TO REFORM A PLANNED ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM CHINA" (544).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Consumer Demand. A New Approach. John Denis Sargan, Kelvin J. Lancaster · The Economic Journal Dec 1972 1,059
2 When Does Privatization Work? The Impact of Private Ownership on Corporate Performance in the Transition Economies Roman Frydman, Cheryl W. Gray, Marek P. Hessel et al. · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 1999 716
3 HOW TO REFORM A PLANNED ECONOMY: LESSONS FROM CHINA John McMillan, Barry J. Naughton · Oxford Review of Economic Policy 1992 544
4 Innowacje i transfer techniki w procesie transformacji. Andrzej H. Jasiński 2006 219
5 Agricultural credit problems and policies during the transition to a market economy in Central and Eastern Europe Johan Swinnen, Hamish R. Gow · Food Policy Feb 1999 210
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Economic and Fiscal Studies research done?

The largest centres of Economic and Fiscal Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Łódź (Poland) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ciechanów, Szczecin and Olsztyn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 146 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 59 works
  3. 3 ŁódźPoland 46 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 40 works
  5. 5 LublinPoland 35 works
  6. 6 SzczecinPoland 32 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 32 works
  8. 8 KatowicePoland 28 works
  9. 9 GdańskPoland 27 works
  10. 10 RzeszówPoland 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CiechanówPL · 21.7 works1002×
  2. SzczecinPL · 32.2 works80×
  3. OlsztynPL · 21.9 works79×
  4. RzeszówPL · 23.3 works75×
  5. ŁódźPL · 45.8 works60×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic and Fiscal Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic and Fiscal Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Łódź, University of Warsaw and Prague University of Economics and Business score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 11.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Prague University of…University of ŁódźSGH Warsaw School of…University of Warsaw
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ŁódźPoland 58.014.5%118.4×35 -49.6%
2University of WarsawPoland 53.68.2%70.3×37 -34.7%
3Prague University of Economics and BusinessCzechia 49.719.5%215.5×11 -56.1%
4SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 44.910.9%433.8×28 -43.3%
5Poznań University of Economics and BusinessPoland 41.413.3%299.3×18 -59.0%
6University of BiałystokPoland 36.214.8%148.9×13 -44.9%
7Masaryk UniversityCzechia 35.712.5%26.7×8 -49.9%
8Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 34.18.0%26.4×18 -44.7%
9Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w CiechanowiePoland 33.64.4%1092.1×22 -26.9%
10University of GdańskPoland 32.58.3%95.9×21 -27.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Economic and Fiscal Studies, country by country

Is Economic and Fiscal Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 41% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Economic and Fiscal Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0056% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Economic and Fiscal Studies0.0044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Economic and Fiscal Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Economic and Fiscal Studies10.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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