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German Economic Analysis & Policies

German Economic Analysis & Policies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 5k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% 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 economic policy, wealth inequality, and financial stability in Europe. It includes discussions on fiscal consolidation, labor market responses to economic downturns, the impact of the financial crisis, and the effectiveness of monetary targeting regimes. Additionally, it addresses income inequality, public finance, and the macroeconomic implications of various policy measures.

  • Economic Policy
  • Wealth Effects
  • Financial Crisis
  • Macroeconomic Stability
  • Fiscal Consolidation
  • Labor Market
  • European Union
  • Income Inequality
  • Public Finance
  • Monetary Targeting
Research works
5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
499
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
German Economic Analysis & Policies

Which countries lead German Economic Analysis & Policies research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (328 and 54 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 328 works
  2. 2 United States 54 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 36 works
  4. 4 Austria 31 works
  5. 5 Switzerland 19 works
  6. 6 China 14 works
  7. 7 Italy 13 works
  8. 8 Australia 12 works
  9. 9 France 7 works
  10. 10 Czechia 6 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.

Germany: 63.1%United States: 10.3%United Kingdom: 6.9%Austria: 5.9%6 others listed: 13.8%63%largest
Germany328 · 63.1%United States54 · 10.3%United Kingdom36 · 6.9%Austria31 · 5.9%6 others listed72 · 13.8%

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

Which institutions lead German Economic Analysis & Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most German Economic Analysis & Policies research, followed by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Cologne Institute for Economic Research.

Who are the leading researchers in German Economic Analysis & Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on German Economic Analysis & Policies include Martin McKee, Joseph E. Stiglitz and David R. Jacobs.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  3. 3 David R. Jacobs United States 152k citations
  4. 4 M. Hashem Pesaran United States 150k citations
  5. 5 James J. Heckman United States 122k citations
  6. 6 Robert J. Barro United States 110k citations
  7. 7 Ernst Fehr Switzerland 108k 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 German Economic Analysis & Policies?

The most cited paper in German Economic Analysis & Policies is "Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality*" (David Card, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline, 2013), with 1,350 citations. Next come "Revisiting the German Wage Structure *" (836) and "New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt" (709).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality* David Card, Jörg Heining, Patrick Kline · The Quarterly Journal of Economics 16 Mar 2013 1,350
2 Revisiting the German Wage Structure * Christian Dustmann, Johannes Ludsteck, Uta Schönberg · The Quarterly Journal of Economics May 2009 836
3 New Evidence on the Interest Rate Effects of Budget Deficits and Debt Thomas Laubach · Journal of the European Economic Association Open access Jun 2009 709
4 Policy Analysis with Econometric Models Christopher A. Sims, Stephen M. Goldfeld, Jeffrey David Sachs · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Open access 1982 691
5 Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries Francesco Giavazzi, Marco Pagano · NBER Macroeconomics Annual Open access 1990 691
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Where is German Economic Analysis & Policies research done?

The largest centres of German Economic Analysis & Policies research in 2022-now are Munich (Germany), Berlin (Germany), Cologne (Germany) and Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cologne and Munich.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MunichGermany 32 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 23 works
  3. 3 CologneGermany 22 works
  4. 4 Frankfurt am MainGermany 17 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 17 works
  6. 6 HamburgGermany 16 works
  7. 7 KielGermany 14 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  9. 9 EssenGermany 10 works
  10. 10 MannheimGermany 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CologneDE · 21.7 works35×
  2. MunichDE · 31.9 works20×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in German Economic Analysis & Policies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study German Economic Analysis & Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Cologne Institute for Economic Research 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 83.517.5%29.3×13 -5.9%
2Cologne Institute for Economic ResearchGermany 9.45.2%1874.8×11 +17.7%

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 German Economic Analysis & Policies, country by country

Is German Economic Analysis & Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 German Economic Analysis & Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0028% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%German Economic Analysis & Policies0.0024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of German Economic Analysis & Policies 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.

still counting5%10%15%German Economic Analysis & Policies10.1% in 2025200020102020

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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