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Economic theories and models

Economic theories and models is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 54k research works in it since 1950. 28.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the existence, dynamics, and implications of monetary equilibrium models, including topics such as asset pricing, liquidity, competitive economy, bubbles, search equilibrium, indeterminacy, credit constraints, and their impact on financial stability and economic growth.

  • Monetary Equilibrium
  • Asset Pricing
  • Liquidity
  • Competitive Economy
  • Bubbles
  • Search Equilibrium
  • Indeterminacy
  • Credit Constraints
  • Financial Stability
  • Economic Growth
Research works
54k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
15k
per year above
Top-10% rate
28.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
-10%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Economic theories and models research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.2k and 444 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 China 444 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 315 works
  4. 4 Italy 284 works
  5. 5 Germany 241 works
  6. 6 France 225 works
  7. 7 Japan 175 works
  8. 8 Russia 141 works
  9. 9 Canada 137 works
  10. 10 India 123 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: 35.9%China: 13.7%United Kingdom: 9.7%Italy: 8.7%6 others listed: 32.0%36%largest
United States1,167 · 35.9%China444 · 13.7%United Kingdom315 · 9.7%Italy284 · 8.7%6 others listed1,042 · 32.0%

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

Which institutions lead Economic theories and models research?

By volume in 2022–2025, National Bureau of Economic Research publishes the most Economic theories and models research, followed by New York University and Columbia University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 30 works
  2. 2 New York UniversityUnited States 27 works
  3. 3 Columbia UniversityUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 University of ChicagoUnited States 25 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 25 works
  6. 6 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 23 works
  7. 7 Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 20 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 20 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Economic theories and models?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Economic theories and models include Daniel Kahneman, Andrei Shleifer and M. Hashem Pesaran.

  1. 1 Daniel Kahneman United States 21k citations
  2. 2 Andrei Shleifer United States 10k citations
  3. 3 M. Hashem Pesaran United States 9.1k citations
  4. 4 Robert J. Barro United States 7.9k citations
  5. 5 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 7.4k citations
  6. 6 Henri Guitton United States 6.9k citations
  7. 7 Oliver E. Williamson United States 6.6k citations
  8. 8 Richard H. Thaler United States 5.9k citations
  9. 9 Daron Acemoğlu United States 5.7k citations
  10. 10 Kenneth J. Arrow United States 5.4k citations

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

Where is Economic theories and models research done?

The largest centres of Economic theories and models research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), New York (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Frankfurt am Main.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 119 works
  2. 2 Beijing China 102 works
  3. 3 New York United States 93 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C. United States 93 works
  5. 5 Paris France 92 works
  6. 6 Moscow Russia 78 works
  7. 7 Tokyo Japan 70 works
  8. 8 Rome Italy 69 works
  9. 9 Shanghai China 54 works
  10. 10 Cambridge United States 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Frankfurt am MainDE · 33.8 works8.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Economic theories and models than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Economic theories and models?

Among universities, judged by research, Columbia University, Roma Tre University and London School of Economics and Political Science 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%20%40%mean 22.21%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Columbia University: 27, 32.0%Roma Tre University: 9, 32.7%London School of Economics and Political Science: 23, 16.9%Shanghai University of Finance and Economics: 15, 20.3%University of Chicago: 25, 23.9%Bocconi University: 12, 17.5%University of Essex: 9, 28.3%Nanjing University of Finance and Economics: 18, 13.8%New York University: 27, 13.4%Tilburg University: 10, 23.3%Roma Tre UniversityColumbia UniversityShanghai University …London School of Eco…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Columbia UniversityUnited States 59.732.0%7.2×27 -10.8%
2 Roma Tre UniversityItaly 56.332.7%11.9×9 +48.1%
3 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 55.316.9%21.4×23 -31.8%
4 Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsChina 55.220.3%31.9×15 +47.5%
5 University of ChicagoUnited States 53.423.9%6.8×25 +17.8%
6 Bocconi UniversityItaly 51.317.5%30.4×12 +31.9%
7 University of EssexUnited Kingdom 51.128.3%11.7×9 +3.9%
8 Nanjing University of Finance and EconomicsChina 49.013.8%30.1×18 -1.8%
9 New York UniversityUnited States 48.613.4%7.7×27 -14.1%
10 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 47.923.3%13.8×10 -25.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Economic theories and models research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Economic theories and models.

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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.

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.