Mark Koyama

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Mark Koyama is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Demography and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Koyama has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 28 papers in Demography and 25 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Koyama's work include Historical Economic and Social Studies (33 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (28 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (16 papers). Mark Koyama is often cited by papers focused on Historical Economic and Social Studies (33 papers), Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (28 papers) and Religion and Society Interactions (16 papers). Mark Koyama collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. Mark Koyama's co-authors include Noel D. Johnson, Rémi Jedwab, Tuan‐Hwee Sng, Jean‐Paul Carvalho, J. James Reade, Michael D. Sacks, Chiaki Moriguchi, Jesús Fernández‐Villaverde, Ahmed S. Rahman and Fernando Arteaga and has published in prestigious journals such as The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal and Journal of Development Economics.

In The Last Decade

Mark Koyama

57 papers receiving 998 citations

Hit Papers

States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints
    2016 185 citations Noel D. Johnson, Mark Koyama profile →

Peers

Mark Koyama
Şevket Pamuk Türkiye
Peter Sandholt Jensen Denmark
Vincent Geloso United States
Quamrul H. Ashraf United States
Karen E. Ferree United States
Ashutosh Varshney United States
Kate Baldwin United States
Peter C. Perdue United States
Hartmut Lehmann Germany
Jacob Weisdorf Denmark
Şevket Pamuk Türkiye
Mark Koyama
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Countries citing papers authored by Mark Koyama

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Koyama

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Koyama

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mark Koyama. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mark Koyama based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mark Koyama. Mark Koyama is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Koyama, Mark. (2024). Analyzing the medieval church through an economic lens. Public Choice. 201(1-2). 53–60.
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Koyama, Mark, et al.. (2024). Religious Violence and Coalition Politics in History. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4(2). 281–309.
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Koyama, Mark, et al.. (2023). Magna Carta. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark, Ahmed S. Rahman, & Tuan‐Hwee Sng. (2021). Sea Power. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1(2). 155–182. 2 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark. (2021). Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?. Public Choice. 195(1-2). 145–167. 12 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark. (2020). A Review Essay of Escape From Rome. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Koyama, Mark, et al.. (2020). Health vs. Economy: Politically Optimal Pandemic Policy. 1(4). 645–669. 8 indexed citations
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Arteaga, Fernando, et al.. (2020). Shipwrecked by Rents. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Jedwab, Rémi, Noel D. Johnson, & Mark Koyama. (2020). The Economic Impact of the Black Death. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations
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Johnson, Noel D. & Mark Koyama. (2019). Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 26 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark, Chiaki Moriguchi, & Tuan‐Hwee Sng. (2018). Geopolitics and Asia’s little divergence: State building in China and Japan after 1850. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 155. 178–204. 16 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark, et al.. (2014). Monetary stability and the rule of law. Journal of Financial Stability. 17. 46–58. 12 indexed citations
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Johnson, Noel D., et al.. (2013). From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 7 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark, et al.. (2013). Unified China and Divided Europe. SSRN Electronic Journal. 9 indexed citations
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Johnson, Noel D. & Mark Koyama. (2012). Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark. (2012). Prosecution Associations in Industrial Revolution England: Private Providers of Public Goods?. The Journal of Legal Studies. 41(1). 95–130. 18 indexed citations
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Johnson, Noel D., Mark Koyama, & John V. C. Nye. (2011). Establishing a New Order: The Growth of the State and the Decline of Witch Trials in France. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark. (2010). The political economy of expulsion: the regulation of Jewish moneylending in medieval England. Constitutional Political Economy. 21(4). 374–406. 4 indexed citations
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Koyama, Mark. (2009). THE PREDATOR STATE: HOW CONSERVATIVES ABANDONED THE FREE MARKET AND WHY LIBERALS SHOULD TOO ‐ by James K. Galbraith. Economic Affairs. 29(1). 104–104. 4 indexed citations

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