What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970

27 Pages Posted: 27 Dec 2006

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E. Han Kim

University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Adair Morse

University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Luigi Zingales

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: October 2006

Abstract

We compile the list of articles published in major refereed economics journals during the last 35 years that have received more than 500 citations. We document major shifts in the mode of contribution and in the importance of different sub-fields: Theory loses out to empirical work, and micro and macro give way to growth and development in the 1990s. While we do not witness any decline in the primacy of production in the United States over the period, the concentration of institutions within the U.S. hosting and training authors of the highly-cited articles has declined substantially.

Keywords: Citations, innovations in economics

JEL Classification: A11, B20, O33

Suggested Citation

Kim, E. Han and Morse, Adair and Zingales, Luigi, What Has Mattered to Economics Since 1970 (October 2006). CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5873, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=953817

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