| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Towards a Macroprudential Framework for Financial Supervision and Regulation? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 283 |
| 2 | The Economic Crisis is a Crisis for Economic Theory | CESifo Economic Studies | 2010 | 191 |
| 3 | Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Migration—a Survey of the Empirical Evidence | CESifo Economic Studies | 2017 | 180 |
| 4 | Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Data and Explanations | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 170 |
| 5 | Privatization and Its Benefits: Theory and Evidence | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 153 |
| 6 | On the Yuan: The Choice between Adjustment under a Fixed Exchange Rate and Adjustment under a Flexible Rate | CESifo Economic Studies | 2006 | 146 |
| 7 | Pro-social Motivation and the Delivery of Social Services | CESifo Economic Studies | 2008 | 139 |
| 8 | ICT and Productivity in Europe and the United States Where Do the Differences Come From? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 136 |
| 9 | Corporate Governance in China: Current Practices, Economic Effects and Institutional Determinants | CESifo Economic Studies | 2006 | 133 |
| 10 | Too Much Oil | CESifo Economic Studies | 2011 | 131 |
| 11 | The European Central Bank as Lender of Last Resort in the Government Bond Markets | CESifo Economic Studies | 2013 | 120 |
| 12 | Household Taxation, Income Splitting and Labor Supply Incentives - A Microsimulation Study for Germany | CESifo Economic Studies | 2004 | 111 |
| 13 | The Theory and Practice of Equalization | CESifo Economic Studies | 2004 | 105 |
| 14 | Flexicurity Labour Market Performance in Denmark | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 103 |
| 15 | Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Macroeconomics | CESifo Economic Studies | 2010 | 100 |
| 16 | A Fiscal Union for the Euro: Some Lessons from History | CESifo Economic Studies | 2013 | 92 |
| 17 | Allowances for Corporate Equity in Practice | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 91 |
| 18 | China's Banking Reform: An Assessment of its Evolution and Possible Impact | CESifo Economic Studies | 2006 | 89 |
| 19 | Regulatory and Supervisory Independence and Financial Stability | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 88 |
| 20 | Older and Wiser? Birth Order and IQ of Young Men | CESifo Economic Studies | 2011 | 87 |
| 21 | Are Chinese Official Statistics Reliable? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2006 | 84 |
| 22 | Two-sided Markets and Electronic Intermediaries | CESifo Economic Studies | 2005 | 81 |
| 23 | An Economist's Guide to Digital Music | CESifo Economic Studies | 2005 | 80 |
| 24 | Climate Variability and Inter-State Migration in India | CESifo Economic Studies | 2017 | 69 |
| 25 | Principles of Policymaking in the European Union: An Economic Perspective | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 67 |
| 26 | Uncertainty, Risk-taking, and the Business Cycle in Germany | CESifo Economic Studies | 2010 | 67 |
| 27 | Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Natural Disasters and Pregnancy Outcomes in the USA | CESifo Economic Studies | 2011 | 63 |
| 28 | The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship: Not just a Matter of Personality | CESifo Economic Studies | 2015 | 63 |
| 29 | A Survey of the Economic Role of Software Platforms in Computer-based Industries | CESifo Economic Studies | 2005 | 60 |
| 30 | Efficiency in Family Bargaining: Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 57 |
| 31 | From Deficits to Debt and Back: Political Incentives under Numerical Fiscal Rules | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 57 |
| 32 | Can Capital Income Taxes Survive? And Should They? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 56 |
| 33 | Fiscal Policy to Stabilise the Domestic Economy in the EMU: What Can We Learn from Monetary Policy? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 55 |
| 34 | Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 53 |
| 35 | Climatic Factors as Determinants of International Migration: Redux | CESifo Economic Studies | 2017 | 52 |
| 36 | Asylum Policy in the EU: the Case for Deeper Integration | CESifo Economic Studies | 2015 | 51 |
| 37 | Inequality and Economic Growth: A Global View Based on Measures of Pay | CESifo Economic Studies | 2003 | 50 |
| 38 | Exchange Rates and the Margins of Trade: Evidence from Chinese Exporters | CESifo Economic Studies | 2012 | 50 |
| 39 | Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-contingent Loans? | CESifo Economic Studies | 2004 | 49 |
| 40 | Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy | CESifo Economic Studies | 2015 | 49 |
| 41 | Being on Sick Leave: Possible Explanations for Differences of Sick-leave Days Across Countries | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 48 |
| 42 | Public-Private Partnerships A Public Economics Perspective | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 47 |
| 43 | Home Bias and Market Integration in the EU | CESifo Economic Studies | 2008 | 47 |
| 44 | Residential Mobility of the European Elderly | CESifo Economic Studies | 2012 | 47 |
| 45 | Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?* | CESifo Economic Studies | 2017 | 47 |
| 46 | World Changes in Inequality: an Overview of Facts, Causes, Consequences, and Policies1 | CESifo Economic Studies | 2018 | 47 |
| 47 | A Framework for Independent Monetary Policy in China | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 46 |
| 48 | Transparency of Monetary Policy: Theory and Practice | CESifo Economic Studies | 2006 | 45 |
| 49 | An Economic Appraisal of MOOC Platforms: Business Models and Impacts on Higher Education | CESifo Economic Studies | 2016 | 45 |
| 50 | Why Have Corporate Tax Revenues Declined? Another Look | CESifo Economic Studies | 2007 | 44 |
