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Economic Policies and Impacts

Economic Policies and Impacts is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1951. 10.6% 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 in economic policy and public finance research, including tax competition among states, fiscal decentralization, monetary policy transmission, labor market flexibility, international trade, climate change policy, pension reforms, regulatory risk, immigration policies, and public goods provision.

  • Tax Competition
  • Fiscal Decentralization
  • Monetary Policy Transmission
  • Labor Market Flexibility
  • International Trade
  • Climate Change Policy
  • Pension Reforms
  • Regulatory Risk
  • Immigration Policies
  • Public Goods Provision
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Economic Policies and Impacts

Which countries lead Economic Policies and Impacts research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (300 and 114 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 300 works
  2. 2 Germany 114 works
  3. 3 China 95 works
  4. 4 Italy 86 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 85 works
  6. 6 France 48 works
  7. 7 Spain 40 works
  8. 8 Japan 35 works
  9. 9 Canada 31 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 27 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: 34.8%Germany: 13.2%China: 11.0%Italy: 10.0%6 others listed: 30.9%35%largest
United States300 · 34.8%Germany114 · 13.2%China95 · 11.0%Italy86 · 10.0%6 others listed266 · 30.9%

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

Which institutions lead Economic Policies and Impacts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Economic Policies and Impacts research, followed by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  2. 2 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 11 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 11 works
  4. 4 University of ChicagoUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 IZA - Institute of Labor EconomicsGermany 7 works
  7. 7 Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsUnited States 7 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 7 works
  10. 10 European Central BankGermany 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic Policies and Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic Policies and Impacts include Andrei Shleifer, David F. Larcker and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  2. 2 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  4. 4 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  5. 5 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 Policies and Impacts?

The most cited paper in Economic Policies and Impacts is "The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?" (Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne, 2016), with 8,640 citations. Next come "Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?" (8,031) and "Economics and Identity*" (5,719).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Oct 2016 8,640
2 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
3 Economics and Identity* George A. Akerlof, Rachel E. Kranton · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Open access Aug 2000 5,719
4 Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Petra Todd · The Review of Economic Studies Oct 1997 5,599
5 On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets Sanford J. Grossman, Joseph E. Stiglitz · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics Preprint Dec 1980 5,329
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Economic Policies and Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Economic Policies and Impacts research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China) and Rome (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Washington D.C. and Rome.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 37 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 37 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 21 works
  4. 4 RomeItaly 20 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 17 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 16 works
  8. 8 MunichGermany 14 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 13 works
  10. 10 Frankfurt am MainGermany 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 37.1 works8.5×
  2. RomeIT · 20.4 works4.4×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic Policies and Impacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic Policies and Impacts?

Among universities, judged by research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Chicago 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
1Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 40.014.3%12.9×11 -68.4%
2University of ChicagoUnited States 40.012.2%10.3×9 -22.7%

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 Policies and Impacts, country by country

Is Economic Policies and Impacts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Policies and Impacts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Economic Policies and Impacts 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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