Most-cited Economics papers of 2019, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2019, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets
   Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · 2019 · 3,924 citations
2. The Importance of Climate Risks for Institutional Investors
   Philipp Krueger, Zacharias Sautner et al. · 2019 · 3,073 citations
3. The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs*
   Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dubé et al. · 2019 · 2,735 citations
4. Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor
   Daron Acemoğlu, Pascual Restrepo · 2019 · 2,564 citations
5. The theory of the leisure class: an economic study of institutions
   Gabe Knott-Fayle · 2019 · 2,359 citations
6. The KOF Globalisation Index – revisited
   Savina Gygli, Florian Haelg et al. · 2019 · 2,030 citations · Free PDF
7. Is Green Growth Possible?
   Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis · 2019 · 1,990 citations
8. Do Investors Value Sustainability? A Natural Experiment Examining Ranking and Fund Flows
   Samuel M. Hartzmark, Abigail B. Sussman · 2019 · 1,606 citations
9. Hedging Climate Change News
   Robert F. Engle, Stefano Giglio et al. · 2019 · 1,479 citations
10. Attention to Global Warming
    Darwin Choi, Zhenyu Gao et al. · 2019 · 1,159 citations
11. Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world
    Paola Subacchi · 2019 · 1,075 citations
12. The human imperative of stabilizing global climate change at 1.5°C
    Ove Hoegh‐Guldberg, Daniela Jacob et al. · 2019 · 1,069 citations
13. A systematic review of quality of life research in medicine and health sciences
    the LIVSFORSK network, Kristin Haraldstad et al. · 2019 · 1,003 citations · Free PDF
14. Climate Change: The Ultimate Challenge for Economics
    William D. Nordhaus · 2019 · 964 citations
15. Structural Interpretation of Vector Autoregressions with Incomplete Identification: Revisiting the Role of Oil Supply and Demand Shocks
    Christiane J.S. Baumeister, James Douglas Hamilton · 2019 · 941 citations
16. The Return to Protectionism*
    Pablo Fajgelbaum, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg et al. · 2019 · 941 citations
17. Global warming has increased global economic inequality
    Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Marshall Burke · 2019 · 930 citations
18. The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare
    Mary Amiti, Stephen J. Redding et al. · 2019 · 889 citations
19. Size and value in China
    Jianan Liu, Robert F. Stambaugh et al. · 2019 · 883 citations
20. Dynamic impact of trade policy, economic growth, fertility rate, renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on ecological footprint in Europe
    Andrew Adewale Alola, Festus Victor Bekun et al. · 2019 · 836 citations
21. mgwr: A Python Implementation of Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression for Investigating Process Spatial Heterogeneity and Scale
    Taylor M. Oshan, Ziqi Li et al. · 2019 · 826 citations · Free PDF
22. Exchange Arrangements Entering the Twenty-First Century: Which Anchor will Hold?*
    Ethan Ilzetzki, Carmen Reinhart et al. · 2019 · 818 citations · Free PDF
23. Monetary Policy and the Redistribution Channel
    Adrien Auclert · 2019 · 796 citations
24. Public Debt and Low Interest Rates
    Olivier Jean Blanchard · 2019 · 784 citations
25. Does Climate Change Affect Real Estate Prices? Only If You Believe In It
    Markus Baldauf, Lorenzo Garlappi et al. · 2019 · 742 citations

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