Friday, November 12, 2010

Top 25 Articles in Economics -- By downloads

A nostalgic list for the Economist in me:


RankJournal ArticleFile Downloads
 Total  
1The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism20,316  
George A. Akerlof
2The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities18,940
Fischer Black and Myron S. Scholes
3Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk13,839
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
4Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information11,435
Joseph Stiglitz and Andrew Weiss
5Increasing Returns and Long-run Growth9,187
Paul Michael Romer
6Co-integration and Error Correction: Representation, Estimation, and Testing9,145  
Robert F. Engle and Clive W. J. Granger
7A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth8,801
N. Gregory Mankiw, David Romer and David Weil
8Theory of Rational Option Pricing8,569
Robert C. Merton
9Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds8,385
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth French
10Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm8,053
Eugene F. Fama
11Corruption and Growth7,751  
Paolo Mauro
12The pyramid of corporate social responsibility: Toward the moral management of organizational stakeholders7,228
Archie B. Carroll
12Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work7,228
Eugene F. Fama
14A Theory of the Term Structure of Interest Rates7,197
John C Cox, Ingersoll, Jonathan E, and Stephen A Ross
15Endogenous Technological Change7,176
Paul Michael Romer
16Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right6,968  
Robert King and Ross Levine
17Event Studies in Economics and Finance6,823
A. Craig MacKinlay
18Time to Build and Aggregate Fluctuations6,460
Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
19A Model of Balance-of-Payments Crises6,387
Paul Krugman
20Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics6,380
Rudiger Dornbusch
21Rules Rather Than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans6,262  
Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott
22The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns6,171
Eugene F. Fama and Kenneth French
23The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration6,148
Sanford Jay Grossman and Oliver D. Hart
24Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization6,115
Armen A Alchian and Harold Demsetz
25Economic Growth in a Cross Section of Countries6,012
Robert J. Barro

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