Topic · Economic Growth and Productivity
Most cited papers in Economic Growth and Productivity
What are the most cited papers in Economic Growth and Productivity?
The most cited paper in Economic Growth and Productivity is "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (Robert M. Solow, 1956), with 24,386 citations. Next come "Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis" (16,797) and "Job Market Signaling" (16,197).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 2,034 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth Robert M. Solow · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1956 | 24,386 |
| 2 | Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis Rajiv D. Banker, A. Charnes, William White Cooper · Management Science | Sep 1984 | 16,797 |
| 3 | Job Market Signaling Michael J. Spence · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1973 | 16,197 |
| 4 | A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth N. Gregory Mankiw, Daniel Römer, David Nathan Weil · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | May 1992 | 15,301 |
| 5 | Unit root tests in panel data: asymptotic and finite-sample properties Andrew Levin, Chien‐Fu Lin, Chia-Shang James Chu · Journal of Econometrics | May 2002 | 12,910 |
| 6 | A simple panel unit root test in the presence of cross‐section dependence M. Hashem Pesaran · Journal of Applied Econometrics | Mar 2007 | 12,618 |
| 7 | The cornerstones of competitive advantage: A resource‐based view Margaret A. Peteraf · Strategic Management Journal | Mar 1993 | 10,786 |
| 8 | Formulation and estimation of stochastic frontier production function models Dennis J. Aigner, C. A. Knox Lovell, Peter Schmidt · Journal of Econometrics | Jul 1977 | 10,219 |
| 9 | Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right Robert G. King, Ross Eric Levine · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1993 | 8,704 |
| 10 | The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review | Dec 2001 | 8,584 |
| 11 | Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others? Robert Ernest Hall, Chris I. Jones · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1999 | 8,031 |
| 12 | Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg, Rebecca M. Henderson · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1993 | 7,941 |
| 13 | Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing and public policy David J. Teece · Research Policy | Dec 1986 | 7,852 |
| 14 | Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D Wesley M. Cohen, Daniel A. Levinthal · The Economic Journal | Sep 1989 | 7,605 |
| 15 | A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction Philippe Aghion, Peter W. Howitt · Econometrica | Mar 1992 | 7,561 |
| 16 | Technological paradigms and technological trajectories Giovanni Dosi · Research Policy | Jun 1982 | 6,720 |
| 17 | The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing K. J. Arrow · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 1971 | 6,653 |
| 18 | The Skill Content of Recent Technological Change: An Empirical Exploration David Autor, Frank Levy, Richard J. Murnane · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 2003 | 6,165 |
| 19 | How does foreign direct investment affect economic growth? Eduardo R. Borensztein, J De Gregorio, Jong‐Wha Lee · Journal of International Economics | Jun 1998 | 6,065 |
| 20 | The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks Nicholas Bloom · Econometrica | 2009 | 5,984 |
| 21 | Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions William Russell Easterly, Ross Eric Levine · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1997 | 5,730 |
| 22 | Estimating long-run relationships from dynamic heterogeneous panels M. Hashem Pesaran, Ron P Smith · Journal of Econometrics | Jul 1995 | 5,533 |
| 23 | Is public expenditure productive? David Alan Aschauer · Journal of Monetary Economics | Mar 1989 | 5,478 |
| 24 | Does Trade Cause Growth? Jeffrey A. Frankel, David Romer · American Economic Review | Jun 1999 | 5,463 |
| 25 | INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TESTS USING ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL MEASURES Stephen Knack, Philip Keefer · Economics and Politics | Nov 1995 | 5,188 |
| 26 | The Next Generation of the Penn World Table Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, Marcel P. Timmer · American Economic Review | Oct 2015 | 4,862 |
| 27 | ECONOMIC GROWTH and CAPITAL ACCUMULATION Thomas W. Swan · Economic Record | Nov 1956 | 4,739 |
| 28 | Changes in Relative Wages, 1963-1987: Supply and Demand Factors Lawrence F. Katz, Kevin Murphy · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 1992 | 4,586 |
| 29 | Technology, Geography, and Trade Jonathan Eaton, Samuel S. Kortum · Econometrica | Sep 2002 | 4,512 |
| 30 | The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States David Autor, David A. Dorn, Gordon Hanson · American Economic Review | Oct 2013 | 4,509 |
| 31 | Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India * Chang‐Tai Hsieh, Peter J. Klenow · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 2009 | 4,215 |
| 32 | International R&D spillovers David T. Coe, Elhanan Helpman · European Economic Review | May 1995 | 4,195 |
| 33 | Convergence Robert J. Barro · Journal of Political Economy | Apr 1992 | 4,189 |
| 34 | The curse of natural resources Jeffrey David Sachs, Andrew M. Warner · European Economic Review | May 2001 | 4,145 |
| 35 | A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010 Robert J. Barro, Jong‐Wha Lee · Journal of Development Economics | 16 Oct 2012 | 4,143 |
| 36 | Technical Change and Economic Theory. PETER F. SWANN, Giovanni Dosi · The Economic Journal | Jun 1989 | 4,067 |
| 37 | Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive, and destructive William J. Baumöl · Journal of Business Venturing | 1996 | 4,014 |
| 38 | Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · Journal of Political Economy | 2 Aug 2019 | 3,861 |
| 39 | The role of human capital in economic development evidence from aggregate cross-country data Jess Benhabib, Mark M. Spiegel · Journal of Monetary Economics | Oct 1994 | 3,852 |
| 40 | The Origins of Endogenous Growth Paul Michael Romer · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Feb 1994 | 3,820 |
| 41 | Data Envelopment Analysis: A Comprehensive Text with Models, Applications, References and DEA-Solver Software William White Cooper, Lawrence M. Seiford, Kaoru Tone · Thammasat University Digital Collections | 30 Nov 1999 | 3,773 |
| 42 | The environment and directed technical change Daron Acemoğlu, Philippe Aghion, Leonardo Bursztyn et al. · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) | Feb 2012 | 3,740 |
| 43 | Finance, entrepreneurship and growth Robert G. King, Ross Eric Levine · Journal of Monetary Economics | Dec 1993 | 3,574 |
| 44 | Growth Empirics: A Panel Data Approach Nazrul Islam · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Nov 1995 | 3,560 |
| 45 | Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind Moses Abramovitz · The Journal of Economic History | Jun 1986 | 3,519 |
| 46 | On the estimation of technical inefficiency in the stochastic frontier production function model James M. Jondrow, C. A. Knox Lovell, Ivan S. Materov et al. · Journal of Econometrics | Aug 1982 | 3,474 |
| 47 | Beyond Computation: Information Technology, Organizational Transformation and Business Performance Erik Brynjolfsson, Lorin M. Hitt · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Nov 2000 | 3,327 |
| 48 | Returns to investment in education: A global update George Psacharopoulos · World Development | Sep 1994 | 3,160 |
| 49 | The Technology of Skill Formation Flávio Cunha, James J. Heckman · American Economic Review | Apr 2007 | 3,103 |
| 50 | The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · American Economic Review | Jun 2018 | 3,064 |
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