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Economic, financial, and policy analysis

Economic, financial, and policy analysis is a research topic within General Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Science Explorer counts 6.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to global economic development, governance, and financial systems. It includes discussions on the impact of globalization, financial crises, monetary policy, trade regulation, sustainable development, institutional reform, and banking regulation. The papers also delve into the historical context of economic development and the challenges faced by different countries in achieving sustainable growth.

  • Globalization
  • Financial Crisis
  • Economic Policy
  • Development Studies
  • Monetary Policy
  • Trade Regulation
  • Sustainable Development
  • Institutional Reform
  • Banking Regulation
  • International Trade
Research works
6.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
674
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic, financial, and policy analysis

Which countries lead Economic, financial, and policy analysis research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (266 and 109 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 266 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 109 works
  3. 3 Australia 64 works
  4. 4 India 40 works
  5. 5 Iraq 35 works
  6. 6 Iran 30 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 29 works
  8. 8 Germany 28 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 27 works
  10. 10 France 25 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.

United States: 40.6%United Kingdom: 16.7%Australia: 9.8%India: 6.1%6 others listed: 26.8%41%largest
United States266 · 40.6%United Kingdom109 · 16.7%Australia64 · 9.8%India40 · 6.1%6 others listed175 · 26.8%

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

Which institutions lead Economic, financial, and policy analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Canberra publishes the most Economic, financial, and policy analysis research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CanberraAustralia 19 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 10 works
  3. 3 Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 Federal ReserveUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 Australian National UniversityAustralia 6 works
  7. 7 Bank of EnglandUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 University of BaghdadIraq 5 works
  9. 9 Cornell UniversityUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic, financial, and policy analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic, financial, and policy analysis include Daniel J. Kahneman, Eugene F. Fama and Andrei Shleifer.

  1. 1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Eugene F. Fama United States 262k citations
  3. 3 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  4. 4 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  6. 6 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  7. 7 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  8. 8 David R. Jacobs United States 152k citations
  9. 9 M. Hashem Pesaran United States 150k 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, financial, and policy analysis?

The most cited paper in Economic, financial, and policy analysis is "Discretion versus policy rules in practice" (John B. Taylor, 1993), with 9,166 citations. Next come "Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission" (4,200) and "Interpreting the macroeconomic time series facts" (1,895).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Discretion versus policy rules in practice John B. Taylor · Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy Conference paper Dec 1993 9,166
2 Inside the Black Box: The Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission Ben Bernanke, Mark L. Gertler · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Nov 1995 4,200
3 Interpreting the macroeconomic time series facts Christopher A. Sims · European Economic Review Open access Jun 1992 1,895
4 Why Has U.S. Inflation Become Harder to Forecast? James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson · Journal of money credit and banking Open access 18 Jan 2007 1,703
5 Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange Donald A. MacKenzie, Yuval Millo · American Journal of Sociology Jul 2003 1,473
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Where is Economic, financial, and policy analysis research done?

The largest centres of Economic, financial, and policy analysis research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Washington D.C. (United States), Canberra (Australia) and Tehran (Iran). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Canberra, Washington D.C. and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 38 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 35 works
  3. 3 CanberraAustralia 27 works
  4. 4 TehranIran 19 works
  5. 5 BaghdadIraq 15 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 13 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 13 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 12 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 9 works
  10. 10 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CanberraAU · 26.8 works18×
  2. Washington D.C.US · 35.3 works8.9×
  3. LondonGB · 38.0 works4.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic, financial, and policy analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic, financial, and policy analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Canberra and Islamic Azad University, Tehran 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.

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 CanberraAustralia 100.09.4%130.0×19 +612.5%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 0.00.5%6.4×10 -27.5%

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, financial, and policy analysis, country by country

Is Economic, financial, and policy analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Economic, financial, and policy analysis.

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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, financial, and policy analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0049% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Economic, financial, and policy analysis 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.

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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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