Stephen Knack

21.4k total citations · 7 hit papers
110 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

Stephen Knack is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Development. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Knack has authored 110 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 52 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 46 papers in Development. Recurrent topics in Stephen Knack's work include International Development and Aid (46 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (34 papers) and Economic Growth and Development (30 papers). Stephen Knack is often cited by papers focused on International Development and Aid (46 papers), Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (34 papers) and Economic Growth and Development (30 papers). Stephen Knack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Switzerland. Stephen Knack's co-authors include Philip Keefer, Paul J. Zak, Deborah Bräutigam, Omar Azfar, Christopher Clague, Anand V. Swamy, Young Lee, Laura Langbein, Mancur Olson and Robert J. Barro and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Economic Journal and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Knack

102 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

INSTITUTIONS AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: CROSS‐COUNTRY TEST... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2001 2001 2004 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen Knack United States 43 6.7k 5.3k 2.6k 2.6k 2.3k 110 12.8k
Philip Keefer United States 34 7.0k 1.1× 5.7k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 2.8k 1.2× 122 13.6k
Jakob Svensson Sweden 39 5.0k 0.7× 4.6k 0.9× 2.3k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 156 10.9k
Axel Dreher Germany 63 6.1k 0.9× 6.3k 1.2× 2.2k 0.8× 6.0k 2.3× 3.1k 1.3× 277 15.6k
William Easterly United States 59 8.9k 1.3× 12.2k 2.3× 3.7k 1.4× 4.6k 1.8× 3.7k 1.6× 176 23.8k
David Dollar United States 40 3.3k 0.5× 4.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.6× 3.6k 1.4× 1.1k 0.5× 97 10.1k
Paolo Mauro United States 38 5.1k 0.8× 5.4k 1.0× 2.4k 0.9× 524 0.2× 1.1k 0.5× 142 10.8k
Massimo Mastruzzi United States 17 3.1k 0.5× 3.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 929 0.4× 1.4k 0.6× 29 9.5k
Thierry Verdier France 37 4.0k 0.6× 3.8k 0.7× 746 0.3× 558 0.2× 978 0.4× 167 8.4k
Guido Tabellini Italy 57 5.7k 0.9× 13.0k 2.5× 839 0.3× 644 0.3× 6.4k 2.7× 167 19.9k
Dani Rodrik United States 70 5.0k 0.7× 13.9k 2.6× 1.6k 0.6× 3.0k 1.2× 5.5k 2.3× 247 25.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephen Knack

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Knack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Knack

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cuesta, Brandon De La, Helen V. Milner, Daniel Nielson, & Stephen Knack. (2019). Oil and aid revenue produce equal demands for accountability as taxes in Ghana and Uganda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(36). 17717–17722. 13 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen & Lixin Colin Xu. (2015). Unbundling Institutions for External Finance: Worldwide Firm-Level Evidence. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Smets, Lodewijk & Stephen Knack. (2015). World Bank Policy Lending and the Quality of Public Sector Governance. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen, Lixin Colin Xu, & Ben Zou. (2014). Interactions Among Donors'Aid Allocations: Evidence from an Exogenous World Bank Income Threshold. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen & Ben Zou. (2013). Income Thresholds and Aid Responses. 1 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen. (2012). When Do Donors Trust Recipient Country Systems. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen & Lodewijk Smets. (2012). Aid Tying and Donor Fragmentation. World Bank eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen. (2012). Aid and donor trust in recipient country systems. Journal of Development Economics. 101. 316–329. 31 indexed citations
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Dang, Hai‐Anh, Stephen Knack, & Frances Rogers. (2009). International Aid and Financial Crises in Donor Countries. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen, et al.. (2009). Aid and Trust in Country Systems. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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Knack, Stephen. (2007). Measuring Corruption: A Critique of Indicators in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Journal of Public Policy. 27(3). 255–291. 124 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen, et al.. (2004). Mapped In or Mapped Out? The Romanian Poor in Inter-household and Community Networks. World Bank Publications. 7 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen & Omar Azfar. (2003). Trade intensity, country size and corruption. Economics of Governance. 4(1). 1–18. 154 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen, et al.. (2003). Second-Generation Governance Indicators. International Review of Administrative Sciences. 69(3). 345–364. 11 indexed citations
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Keefer, Philip & Stephen Knack. (2002). Boondoggles and Expropriation: Rent-seeking and Policy Distortion when Property Rights are Insecure. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Clague, Christopher, Suzanne Gleason, & Stephen Knack. (2001). Determinants of lasting democracy in poor countries. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 12 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen. (2000). Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 115 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen. (1999). Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen & Philip Keefer. (1998). Does Social Capital Have an Economic Payoff? A Cross-Country Investigation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 72 indexed citations
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Knack, Stephen. (1996). Institutions and the Convergence Hypothesis: The Cross-National Evidence. Public Choice. 87. 51 indexed citations

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