Standout Papers

The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation 2000 2026 2008 2017 5.0k
  1. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation (2001)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. American Economic Review
  2. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply (2012)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. American Economic Review
  3. Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution (2002)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  4. Tunneling (2000)
    Simon Johnson, Rafael La Porta et al. American Economic Review
  5. Unbundling Institutions (2005)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson Journal of Political Economy
  6. Corporate governance in the Asian financial crisis (2000)
    Simon Johnson, Peter Boone et al. Journal of Financial Economics
  7. Cronyism and capital controls: evidence from Malaysia (2002)
    Simon Johnson, Todd Mitton Journal of Financial Economics
  8. The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation (2000)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. SSRN Electronic Journal
  9. Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth (2004)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
  10. Dodging the grabbing hand: the determinants of unofficial activity in 69 countries (2000)
    Eric Friedman, Simon Johnson et al. Journal of Public Economics
  11. The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth (2005)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. American Economic Review
  12. Disease and Development: The Effect of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth (2007)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson Journal of Political Economy
  13. The Unofficial Economy in Transition (1997)
    Simon Johnson, Daniel Kaufmann et al. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  14. Property Rights and Finance (2002)
    Simon Johnson, John McMillan et al. American Economic Review
  15. Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution (2001)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. SSRN Electronic Journal
  16. The value of connections in turbulent times: Evidence from the United States (2016)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. Journal of Financial Economics
  17. Mixing family with business: A study of Thai business groups and the families behind them (2008)
    Marianne Bertrand, Simon Johnson et al. Journal of Financial Economics
  18. From Education to Democracy? (2005)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. American Economic Review
  19. Reevaluating the modernization hypothesis (2009)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson et al. Journal of Monetary Economics
  20. The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution (2011)
    Daron Acemoğlu, Davide Cantoni et al. American Economic Review

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Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation
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Simon Johnson 12470 7405 7859 112 25.6k
Aart Kraay 8729 5222 3070 118 17.4k
James A. Robinson 11841 10071 1882 208 24.8k
George A. Akerlof 13814 6457 5603 93 29.0k
Philippe Aghion 27009 3916 8317 271 37.1k
Alberto Alesina 22224 14650 3184 256 41.2k
Robert J. Barro 33825 8409 5028 224 45.3k
Manuel Arellano 25181 4668 10741 56 38.4k
Daniel Kaufmann 6038 5279 3149 113 13.3k
Mancur Olson 11444 12624 1891 82 33.3k
William Easterly 10966 8314 1281 157 21.5k

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