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Daron Acemoglu

Global rank #5 99%

Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Primary Field: Theory (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu

First Publication: 1995

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pac16 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 8.61 5.70 4.52 0.00 51.38
Last 10 Years 18.57 10.26 7.37 0.00 103.16
All Time 74.50 31.37 24.63 0.00 387.23

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 143
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 134.77

Publications (143)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Nobel Lecture: Institutions, Technology, and Prosperity American Economic Review S 1
2025 When Big Data Enables Behavioral Manipulation American Economic Review: Insights A 4
2025 The simple macroeconomics of AI* Economic Policy B 1
2025 The Making of Social Democracy: the Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform Journal of the European Economic Association A 4
2025 (Successful) Democracies Breed Their Own Support Review of Economic Studies S 5
2025 The Macroeconomics of Supply Chain Disruptions Review of Economic Studies S 2
2025 2023 KLEIN LECTURE—CAPITAL AND WAGES International Economic Review B 1
2024 Regulating Transformative Technologies American Economic Review: Insights A 2
2024 Equilibrium Analysis in Behavioural One-Sector Growth Models Review of Economic Studies S 2
2024 A Model of Online Misinformation Review of Economic Studies S 3
2023 Mirage on the horizon: Geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment Journal of Public Economics A 2
2023 War, Socialism, and the Rise of Fascism: an Empirical Exploration Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
2022 Radical and Incremental Innovation: The Roles of Firms, Managers, and Innovators American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2022 Too Much Data: Prices and Inefficiencies in Data Markets American Economic Journal: Microeconomics B 4
2022 Obedience in the Labour Market and Social Mobility: A Socioeconomic Approach Economica C 1
2022 repec:oup:qjecon:v:137:y:2022:i:2:p:1233-1296. Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
2022 Demographics and Automation Review of Economic Studies S 2
2022 Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies Journal of Labor Economics A 4
2022 Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality Econometrica S 2
2022 Learning From Reviews: The Selection Effect and the Speed of Learning Econometrica S 4
2021 Optimal Targeted Lockdowns in a Multigroup SIR Model American Economic Review: Insights A 4
2021 A Theory of Equality Before the Law Economic Journal A 2
2020 The Perils of High-Powered Incentives: Evidence from Colombia's False Positives American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 5
2020 Does the US Tax Code Favor Automation? Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 3
2020 Sustaining Cooperation: Community Enforcement versus Specialized Enforcement Journal of the European Economic Association A 2
2020 Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia Review of Economic Studies S 3
2020 Population and Conflict Review of Economic Studies S 3
2020 Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets Journal of Political Economy S 2
2020 Trust in State and Nonstate Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan Journal of Political Economy S 4
2020 Endogenous Production Networks Econometrica S 2
2019 Rents and economic development: the perspective of Why Nations Fail Public Choice B 2
2019 Democracy Does Cause Growth Journal of Political Economy S 4
2018 Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth American Economic Review S 5
2018 The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment American Economic Review S 2
2018 Social Mobility and Stability of Democracy: Reevaluating De Tocqueville Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2018 The Power of the Street: Evidence from Egypt’s Arab Spring The Review of Financial Studies A 3
2017 Microeconomic Origins of Macroeconomic Tail Risks American Economic Review S 3
2017 Secular Stagnation? The Effect of Aging on Economic Growth in the Age of Automation American Economic Review S 2
2017 Privacy-constrained network formation Games and Economic Behavior B 4
2017 Social Norms and the Enforcement of Laws Journal of the European Economic Association A 2
2017 Competition in Electricity Markets with Renewable Energy Sources The Energy Journal B 3
2017 Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World Journal of Political Economy S 3
2016 State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Economic Review S 3
2016 Network security and contagion Journal of Economic Theory A 3
2016 The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States Journal of Financial Economics A 5
2016 Import Competition and the Great US Employment Sag of the 2000s Journal of Labor Economics A 5
2016 Transition to Clean Technology Journal of Political Economy S 4
2015 Systemic Risk and Stability in Financial Networks American Economic Review S 3
2015 State Capacity and Economic Development: A Network Approach American Economic Review S 3
2015 Offshoring and Directed Technical Change American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2015 Innovation by entrants and incumbents Journal of Economic Theory A 2
2015 History, Expectations, and Leadership in the Evolution of Social Norms Review of Economic Studies S 2
2015 Robust Comparative Statics in Large Dynamic Economies Journal of Political Economy S 2
2015 Political Economy in a Changing World Journal of Political Economy S 3
2014 Cycles of Conflict: An Economic Model American Economic Review S 2
2014 Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in US Manufacturing American Economic Review S 5
2014 Equalizing Superstars: The Internet and the Democratization of Education American Economic Review S 3
2014 The environment and directed technical change in a North–South model Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 3
2014 Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone Journal of Political Economy S 3
2014 Disease and Development: A Reply to Bloom, Canning, and Fink Journal of Political Economy S 2
2013 Aggregate comparative statics Games and Economic Behavior B 2
2013 Why Do Voters Dismantle Checks and Balances? Review of Economic Studies S 3
2013 Income and Health Spending: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks Review of Economics and Statistics A 3
2012 The Environment and Directed Technical Change American Economic Review S 4
2012 Dynamics and Stability of Constitutions, Coalitions, and Clubs American Economic Review S 3
2012 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply American Economic Review S 3
2012 Introduction to economic growth Journal of Economic Theory A 1
2012 Competing engines of growth: Innovation and standardization Journal of Economic Theory A 3
2012 A Dynamic Theory of Resource Wars Quarterly Journal of Economics S 4
2011 The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution American Economic Review S 4
2011 Experimentation, Patents, and Innovation American Economic Journal: Microeconomics B 3
2011 Power fluctuations and political economy Journal of Economic Theory A 3
2011 Political economy of Ramsey taxation Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Political economy of Ramsey taxation Journal of Public Economics A 3
2011 Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2011 Bayesian Learning in Social Networks Review of Economic Studies S 4
2010 Institutions, Factor Prices, and Taxation: Virtues of Strong States? American Economic Review S 1
2010 Political Limits to Globalization American Economic Review S 2
2010 A Theory of Military Dictatorships American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 3
2010 Productivity Differences between and within Countries American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 2
2010 Spread of (mis)information in social networks Games and Economic Behavior B 3
2010 Political Selection and Persistence of Bad Governments Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2010 Dynamic Mirrlees Taxation under Political Economy Constraints Review of Economic Studies S 3
2010 When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation? Journal of Political Economy S 1
2009 Do Juntas Lead to Personal Rule? American Economic Review S 3
2009 Determinants of Vertical Integration: Financial Development and Contracting Costs Journal of Finance A 3
2009 Price and capacity competition Games and Economic Behavior B 3
2009 Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis Journal of Monetary Economics A 4
2008 Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions American Economic Review S 2
2008 Income and Democracy American Economic Review S 4
2008 When Does Policy Reform Work? The Case of Central Bank Independence Brookings Papers on Economic Activity B 4
2008 Markets versus governments Journal of Monetary Economics A 3
2008 Coalition Formation in Non-Democracies Review of Economic Studies S 3
2008 Capital Deepening and Nonbalanced Economic Growth Journal of Political Economy S 2
2008 Input and Technology Choices in Regulated Industries: Evidence from the Health Care Sector Journal of Political Economy S 2
2008 The Persistence and Change of Institutions in the Americas Southern Economic Journal C 2
2007 Contracts and Technology Adoption American Economic Review S 3
2007 Technology, Information, and the Decentralization of the Firm Quarterly Journal of Economics S 5
2007 Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth Journal of Political Economy S 2
2006 Did Medicare Induce Pharmaceutical Innovation? American Economic Review S 4
2006 De Facto Political Power and Institutional Persistence American Economic Review S 2
2006 A Simple Model of Inefficient Institutions Scandanavian Journal of Economics B 1
2005 From Education to Democracy? American Economic Review S 4
2005 The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth American Economic Review S 3
2005 Politics and economics in weak and strong states Journal of Monetary Economics A 1
2005 Unbundling Institutions Journal of Political Economy S 2
2004 Market Size in Innovation: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2004 Women, War, and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Midcentury Journal of Political Economy S 3
2003 Institutional causes, macroeconomic symptoms: volatility, crises and growth Journal of Monetary Economics A 4
2003 Patterns of Skill Premia Review of Economic Studies S 1
2002 The labor market and corporate structure European Economic Review B 2
2002 The World Income Distribution Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2002 Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution Quarterly Journal of Economics S 3
2002 Directed Technical Change Review of Economic Studies S 1
2001 A Theory of Political Transitions American Economic Review S 2
2001 The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation American Economic Review S 3
2001 SESSION 1A: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS Journal of Economic History B 3
2001 Credit market imperfections and persistent unemployment European Economic Review B 1
2001 Changes in the wage structure, family income, and children's education European Economic Review B 2
2001 Productivity Differences Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2001 Good Jobs versus Bad Jobs. Journal of Labor Economics A 1
2001 Consequences of Employment Protection? The Case of the Americans with Disabilities Act Journal of Political Economy S 2
2000 The Choice between Market Failures and Corruption American Economic Review S 2
2000 Political Losers as a Barrier to Economic Development American Economic Review S 2
2000 Democratization or repression? European Economic Review B 2
2000 Certification of training and training outcomes European Economic Review B 2
2000 Productivity gains from unemployment insurance European Economic Review B 2
2000 Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2000 Wage and Technology Dispersion Review of Economic Studies S 2
1999 Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence American Economic Review S 1
1999 Information Accumulation in Development. Journal of Economic Growth A 2
1999 The Structure of Wages and Investment in General Training Journal of Political Economy S 2
1999 Efficient Unemployment Insurance Journal of Political Economy S 2
1998 Credit Market Imperfections and the Separation of Ownership from Control, Journal of Economic Theory A 1
1998 Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1998 Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1997 Technology, unemployment and efficiency European Economic Review B 1
1997 Asymmetric business cycles: Theory and time-series evidence Journal of Monetary Economics A 2
1997 Matching, Heterogeneity, and the Evolution of Income Distribution. Journal of Economic Growth A 1
1997 Training and Innovation in an Imperfect Labour Market Review of Economic Studies S 1
1997 Was Prometheus Unbound by Chance? Risk, Diversification, and Growth. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1996 A Microfoundation for Social Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1995 Reward structures and the allocation of talent European Economic Review B 1