John Kennan

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

John Kennan is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, John Kennan has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 11 papers in General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 9 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in John Kennan's work include Economic theories and models (11 papers), Merger and Competition Analysis (7 papers) and Auction Theory and Applications (6 papers). John Kennan is often cited by papers focused on Economic theories and models (11 papers), Merger and Competition Analysis (7 papers) and Auction Theory and Applications (6 papers). John Kennan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Japan. John Kennan's co-authors include James R. Walker, Raymond Riezman, Robert Wilson, Neil Wallace, Barry Sopher, Robert Forsythe, Peter J. Hammond, Chao Fu and Bent Jesper Christensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, American Economic Review and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

John Kennan

33 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions

2011 418 citations John Kennan, James R. Walker Econometrica profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Kennan United States	17	1.2k	563	382	173	142	34	1.7k
Amar K. Parai United States	7	2.0k 1.7×	631 1.1×	186 0.5×	95 0.5×	109 0.8×	24	2.2k
William Fellner United States	22	1.3k 1.1×	732 1.3×	319 0.8×	154 0.9×	262 1.8×	64	2.0k
Wallace Hendricks United States	21	745 0.6×	140 0.2×	312 0.8×	72 0.4×	68 0.5×	60	1.4k
Keith Hartley United Kingdom	20	1.1k 0.9×	183 0.3×	242 0.6×	148 0.9×	63 0.4×	147	1.8k
Sidney Weintraub United States	21	954 0.8×	829 1.5×	441 1.2×	136 0.8×	144 1.0×	139	1.6k
Lars Ljungqvist United States	18	2.3k 1.9×	914 1.6×	222 0.6×	87 0.5×	411 2.9×	42	2.7k
Paul A. Grout United Kingdom	13	902 0.7×	123 0.2×	105 0.3×	216 1.2×	198 1.4×	62	1.4k
Michael Neugart Germany	18	661 0.5×	240 0.4×	138 0.4×	96 0.6×	96 0.7×	89	977
Giuseppe Moscarini United States	21	1.1k 0.9×	278 0.5×	142 0.4×	274 1.6×	166 1.2×	46	1.4k
Joel Watson United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	414 0.7×	115 0.3×	544 3.1×	153 1.1×	55	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by John Kennan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Kennan

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fu, Chao, et al.. (2023). Government Expenditure on the Public Education System. International Economic Review. 65(1). 43–73. 3 indexed citations

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Kennan, John & Robert Wilson. (2016). Can Strategic Bargaining Models Explain Collective Bargaining Data. American Economic Review. 80(2). 405–409. 1 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (2015). Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (2012). Open borders. Review of Economic Dynamics. 16(2). L1–L13. 47 indexed citations

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Kennan, John & James R. Walker. (2011). The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions. Econometrica. 79(1). 211–251. 418 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kennan, John & James R. Walker. (2009). Wages, welfare benefits and migration. Journal of Econometrics. 156(1). 229–238. 40 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (2001). Uniqueness of Positive Fixed Points for Increasing Concave Functions on : An Elementary Result. Review of Economic Dynamics. 4(4). 893–899. 36 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (2001). Repeated Bargaining with Persistent Private Information. The Review of Economic Studies. 68(4). 719–755. 33 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1995). Repeated contract negotiations with private information. Japan and the World Economy. 7(4). 447–472. 7 indexed citations

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Forsythe, Robert, John Kennan, & Barry Sopher. (1991). An Experimental Analysis of Strikes in Bargaining Games with One-Sided Private Information. American Economic Review. 81(1). 253–278. 58 indexed citations

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Kennan, John & Robert Wilson. (1991). Bargaining with Private Information. Journal of Economic Literature. 31(1). 45–104. 6 indexed citations

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Kennan, John & Robert Wilson. (1990). Theories of Bargaining Delays. Science. 249(4973). 1124–1128. 11 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1989). Simultaneous Equations Bias in Disaggregated Econometric Models. The Review of Economic Studies. 56(1). 151–156. 13 indexed citations

14.

Kennan, John. (1988). An Econometric Analysis of Fluctuations in Aggregate Labor Supply and Demand. Econometrica. 56(2). 317–317. 28 indexed citations

15.

Kennan, John & Raymond Riezman. (1988). Do Big Countries Win Tariff Wars?. International Economic Review. 29(1). 81–81. 138 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1988). Equilibrium Interpretations of Employment and Real Wage Fluctuations. NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 3. 157–157. 3 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1986). [Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem]: Comment. NBER Macroeconomics Annual. 1. 78–85. 2 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1985). The duration of contract strikes in U.S. manufacturing. Journal of Econometrics. 28(1). 5–28. 104 indexed citations

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Kennan, John, et al.. (1982). The Employment-Real Wage Relationship: An International Study. Journal of Political Economy. 90(4). 854–871. 114 indexed citations

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Kennan, John. (1979). Bonding and the enforcement of labor contracts. Economics Letters. 3(1). 61–66. 8 indexed citations

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