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Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 70k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of infrastructure development, government expenditure, and taxation policies on economic growth, with a focus on the role of public investment, transportation infrastructure, and optimal taxation. It investigates the relationship between infrastructure, taxation, and regional disparities in economic development, providing insights into the effects of different fiscal policies on long-term growth and efficiency.

  • Infrastructure
  • Taxation
  • Economic Growth
  • Public Investment
  • Government Expenditure
  • Transport Infrastructure
  • Optimal Taxation
  • Fiscal Policy
  • Regional Development
  • Income Tax
Research works
70k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth

Which countries lead Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.8k and 1.5k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.8k works
  2. 2 United States 1.5k works
  3. 3 Nigeria 1.1k works
  4. 4 Türkiye 811 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 669 works
  6. 6 Brazil 491 works
  7. 7 India 465 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 379 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 294 works
  10. 10 Germany 259 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.

China: 23.1%United States: 19.2%Nigeria: 14.5%Türkiye: 10.4%6 others listed: 32.8%23%largest
China1,801 · 23.1%United States1,495 · 19.2%Nigeria1,129 · 14.5%Türkiye811 · 10.4%6 others listed2,557 · 32.8%

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

Which institutions lead Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tribhuvan University publishes the most Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research, followed by Nanjing University of Finance and Economics and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 78 works
  2. 2 Nanjing University of Finance and EconomicsChina 51 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 50 works
  4. 4 Nnamdi Azikiwe UniversityNigeria 47 works
  5. 5 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 46 works
  6. 6 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 42 works
  7. 7 Babcock UniversityNigeria 40 works
  8. 8 Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 37 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 36 works
  10. 10 International Monetary FundUnited States 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth include Donald B. Rubin, Gordon Brent Mills and Eugene F. Fama.

  1. 1 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  3. 3 Eugene F. Fama United States 262k citations
  4. 4 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k 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 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth?

The most cited paper in Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth is "Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations" (Manuel Arellano, Stephen Bond, 1991), with 33,547 citations. Next come "Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models" (22,634) and "Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital" (21,799).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations Manuel Arellano, Stephen Bond · The Review of Economic Studies Apr 1991 33,547
2 Initial conditions and moment restrictions in dynamic panel data models Richard W. Blundell, Stephen Bond · Journal of Econometrics Nov 1998 22,634
3 Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital Jenell S. Coleman · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 2000 21,799
4 Another look at the instrumental variable estimation of error-components models Manuel Arellano, Olympia Bover · Journal of Econometrics Jul 1995 20,111
5 Job Market Signaling Michael J. Spence · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Aug 1973 16,197
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Where is Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research done?

The largest centres of Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Shanghai (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Keffi, Sagamu and Enugu.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 342 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 183 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 146 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 142 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 134 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 111 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 110 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 107 works
  9. 9 Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 102 works
  10. 10 KathmanduNepal 93 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KeffiNG · 24.0 works28×
  2. SagamuNG · 21.1 works25×
  3. EnuguNG · 37.0 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth than the world average.

See Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth on the map

Where is the best place to study Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth?

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

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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.

Citation 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 JohannesburgSouth Africa 66.022.8%6.6×46 +133.2%
2Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 61.723.7%21.1×34 +135.8%
3Nanjing University of Finance and EconomicsChina 61.420.3%34.7×51 +328.4%
4Université de DschangCameroon 58.825.5%21.5×24 +51.4%
5University of International Business and EconomicsChina 56.422.7%23.4×25 +70.6%
6Ho Chi Minh City Open UniversityVietnam 56.124.8%33.1×15 +31.6%
7Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyGhana 55.722.2%7.0×17 +33.2%
8Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 55.617.7%28.9×37 +31.5%
9Renmin University of ChinaChina 55.521.8%8.8×32 +44.4%
10Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina 54.321.1%25.3×28 +65.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, country by country

Is Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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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 Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.059% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth0.043% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth 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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