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1 | The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 21,761 |
2 | Law and Finance | Journal of Political Economy | 1998 | 14,766 |
3 | Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 12,568 |
4 | Endogenous Technological Change | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 12,251 |
5 | Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 11,939 |
6 | A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures | Journal of Political Economy | 1956 | 9,199 |
7 | Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach | Journal of Political Economy | 1968 | 9,165 |
8 | Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm | Journal of Political Economy | 1980 | 7,720 |
9 | Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 7,443 |
10 | Increasing Returns and Economic Geography | Journal of Political Economy | 1991 | 7,325 |
11 | The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 7,048 |
12 | A New Approach to Consumer Theory | Journal of Political Economy | 1966 | 6,694 |
13 | Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity | Journal of Political Economy | 1983 | 6,676 |
14 | Large Shareholders and Corporate Control | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 6,153 |
15 | Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans | Journal of Political Economy | 1977 | 5,409 |
16 | A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades | Journal of Political Economy | 1992 | 5,053 |
17 | The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences | Journal of Political Economy | 1985 | 4,866 |
18 | Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,783 |
19 | The Economics of Information | Journal of Political Economy | 1961 | 4,688 |
20 | Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,678 |
21 | The governance of global value chains | Review of International Political Economy | 2005 | 4,647 |
22 | Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis | Journal of Political Economy | 1962 | 4,602 |
23 | Credit Cycles | Journal of Political Economy | 1997 | 4,560 |
24 | Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns | Journal of Political Economy | 2003 | 4,455 |
25 | Information and Consumer Behavior | Journal of Political Economy | 1970 | 4,389 |
26 | Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy | Journal of Political Economy | 2005 | 4,282 |
27 | On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health | Journal of Political Economy | 1972 | 4,209 |
28 | By Force of Habit: A Consumption‐Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior | Journal of Political Economy | 1999 | 4,103 |
29 | Are Government Bonds Net Wealth? | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 4,096 |
30 | Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,024 |
31 | Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 3,931 |
32 | Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 3,854 |
33 | A Rational Theory of the Size of Government | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 3,712 |
34 | The Economics of Exhaustible Resources | Journal of Political Economy | 1931 | 3,487 |
35 | Growth in Cities | Journal of Political Economy | 1992 | 3,466 |
36 | Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics | Journal of Political Economy | 1976 | 3,435 |
37 | Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 3,241 |
38 | The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery | Journal of Political Economy | 1954 | 3,131 |
39 | Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory | Journal of Political Economy | 1950 | 3,086 |
40 | The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 2,977 |
41 | Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 2,887 |
42 | A Theory of Rational Addiction | Journal of Political Economy | 1988 | 2,879 |
43 | Financial Contagion | Journal of Political Economy | 2000 | 2,877 |
44 | Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences | Journal of Political Economy | 2003 | 2,873 |
45 | Advertising as Information | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 2,623 |
46 | Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility | Journal of Political Economy | 1955 | 2,616 |
47 | Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools | Journal of Political Economy | 2005 | 2,615 |
48 | Oil and the Macroeconomy since World War II | Journal of Political Economy | 1983 | 2,590 |
49 | An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money | Journal of Political Economy | 1958 | 2,585 |
50 | Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence | Journal of Political Economy | 1978 | 2,585 |
51 | A Theory of Social Interactions | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 2,557 |
52 | The Costs and Returns of Human Migration | Journal of Political Economy | 1962 | 2,542 |
53 | Monitoring and Reputation: The Choice between Bank Loans and Directly Placed Debt | Journal of Political Economy | 1991 | 2,522 |
54 | A Theory of Marriage: Part I | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 2,508 |
55 | A Capital Asset Pricing Model with Time-Varying Covariances | Journal of Political Economy | 1988 | 2,459 |
56 | The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk | Journal of Political Economy | 1948 | 2,398 |
57 | Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices | Journal of Political Economy | 1988 | 2,377 |
58 | Formal and Real Authority in Organizations | Journal of Political Economy | 1997 | 2,336 |
59 | Giving with Impure Altruism: Applications to Charity and Ricardian Equivalence | Journal of Political Economy | 1989 | 2,309 |
60 | An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice under Liquidity Constraints | Journal of Political Economy | 1989 | 2,266 |
61 | Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution | Journal of Political Economy | 1958 | 2,261 |
62 | Long-Run Policy Analysis and Long-Run Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1991 | 2,244 |
63 | Wages, Rents, and the Quality of Life | Journal of Political Economy | 1982 | 2,226 |
64 | Risk Taking by Mutual Funds as a Response to Incentives | Journal of Political Economy | 1997 | 2,209 |
65 | R & D-Based Models of Economic Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1995 | 2,193 |
66 | Job Matching and the Theory of Turnover | Journal of Political Economy | 1979 | 2,188 |
67 | Financial Development, Growth, and the Distribution of Income | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 2,177 |
68 | Why do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments? | Journal of Political Economy | 1998 | 2,133 |
69 | The Purchasing-Power Parity Doctrine: A Reappraisal | Journal of Political Economy | 1964 | 2,098 |
70 | On the Determination of the Public Debt | Journal of Political Economy | 1979 | 2,086 |
71 | Multimarket Oligopoly: Strategic Substitutes and Complements | Journal of Political Economy | 1985 | 2,063 |
72 | Tobin's q, Corporate Diversification, and Firm Performance | Journal of Political Economy | 1994 | 2,059 |
73 | The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men | Journal of Political Economy | 1978 | 2,037 |
74 | Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 1,991 |
75 | The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research | Journal of Political Economy | 1959 | 1,989 |
76 | Unbundling Institutions | Journal of Political Economy | 2005 | 1,979 |
77 | Occupational Choice and the Process of Development | Journal of Political Economy | 1993 | 1,972 |
78 | A Positive Theory of Monetary Policy in a Natural Rate Model | Journal of Political Economy | 1983 | 1,943 |
79 | Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill | Journal of Political Economy | 1993 | 1,928 |
80 | Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons | Journal of Political Economy | 1985 | 1,922 |
81 | Mutual Fund Flows and Performance in Rational Markets | Journal of Political Economy | 2004 | 1,886 |
82 | An Economic Theory of Self-Control | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 1,877 |
83 | Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control | Journal of Political Economy | 1965 | 1,852 |
84 | Overconfidence and Speculative Bubbles | Journal of Political Economy | 2003 | 1,842 |
85 | On the Interaction between the Quantity and Quality of Children | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 1,829 |
86 | Forward Exchange Rates as Optimal Predictors of Future Spot Rates: An Econometric Analysis | Journal of Political Economy | 1980 | 1,791 |
87 | An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy | Journal of Political Economy | 1957 | 1,773 |
88 | Cointegration and Tests of Present Value Models | Journal of Political Economy | 1987 | 1,769 |
89 | Price and Advertising Signals of Product Quality | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 1,762 |
90 | The Production of Human Capital and the Life Cycle of Earnings | Journal of Political Economy | 1967 | 1,761 |
91 | Entry and Exit Decisions under Uncertainty | Journal of Political Economy | 1989 | 1,742 |
92 | Save More Tomorrow™: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving | Journal of Political Economy | 2004 | 1,737 |
93 | Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies | Journal of Political Economy | 1994 | 1,733 |
94 | Aggregate Dynamics and Staggered Contracts | Journal of Political Economy | 1980 | 1,723 |
95 | On the Rationale of Group Decision-making | Journal of Political Economy | 1948 | 1,720 |
96 | Participation in Illegitimate Activities: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 1,710 |
97 | Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach | Journal of Political Economy | 2004 | 1,693 |
98 | The territorial trap: The geographical assumptions of international relations theory | Review of International Political Economy | 1994 | 1,690 |
99 | Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach | Journal of Political Economy | 1997 | 1,664 |
100 | Competition and Corporate Performance | Journal of Political Economy | 1996 | 1,653 |