Most-cited Economics papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Economics research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. The socio-economic implications of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19): A review
   Maria Nicola, Zaid Alsafi et al. · 2020 · 6,385 citations
2. Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?
   Patrick G M Bolton, Marcin T. Kacperczyk · 2020 · 3,389 citations · Free PDF
3. Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning
   Shihao Gu, Bryan Kelly et al. · 2020 · 2,540 citations
4. The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms*
   David Autor, David Dorn et al. · 2020 · 2,244 citations · Free PDF
5. Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges
   Nathalie Seddon, Alexandre M. Chausson et al. · 2020 · 2,008 citations
6. The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications*
   Jan De Loecker, Jan Eeckhout et al. · 2020 · 1,949 citations · Free PDF
7. The impact of COVID-19 on small business outcomes and expectations
   Alexander W. Bartik, Marianne Bertrand et al. · 2020 · 1,624 citations
8. Refined Measures of Dynamic Connectedness based on Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressions
   Nikolaos Antonakakis, Ioannis Chatziantoniou et al. · 2020 · 1,581 citations · Free PDF
9. The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19
   Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom et al. · 2020 · 1,537 citations
10. Estimated Research and Development Investment Needed to Bring a New Medicine to Market, 2009-2018
    Olivier J. Wouters, Martin McKee et al. · 2020 · 1,522 citations · Free PDF
11. Strategies for mitigation of climate change: a review
    Samer Fawzy, Ahmed Ibrahim Osman et al. · 2020 · 1,509 citations · Free PDF
12. An optimal parameters-based geographical detector model enhances geographic characteristics of explanatory variables for spatial heterogeneity analysis: cases with different types of spatial data
    Yongze Song, Jinfeng Wang et al. · 2020 · 1,336 citations
13. US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016
    Joseph L. Dieleman, Jackie Cao et al. · 2020 · 1,297 citations
14. Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19*
    Stefano Ramelli, Alexander F. Wagner · 2020 · 1,238 citations
15. Resiliency of Environmental and Social Stocks: An Analysis of the Exogenous COVID-19 Market Crash
    Rui A. Albuquerque, Yrjo J Koskinen et al. · 2020 · 1,168 citations
16. COVID-19 risks to global food security
    David Laborde, Will J. Martin et al. · 2020 · 1,134 citations
17. Carbon Tail Risk
    Emirhan Ilhan, Zacharias Sautner et al. · 2020 · 1,114 citations
18. U.S. Monetary Policy and the Global Financial Cycle
    Silvia Miranda‐Agrippino, Hélène Rey · 2020 · 1,087 citations · Free PDF
19. Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070
    Jeffrey Rissman, Chris Bataille et al. · 2020 · 1,043 citations · Free PDF
20. Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19
    Giovanni Bonaccorsi, Francesco Pierri et al. · 2020 · 1,031 citations · Free PDF
21. Fast Poisson estimation with high-dimensional fixed effects
    Sergio Correia, Paulo Guimarães et al. · 2020 · 1,026 citations
22. Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?
    Nicholas Bloom, Charles I. Jones et al. · 2020 · 1,005 citations · Free PDF
23. Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency
    Yukun Liu, Aleh Tsyvinski · 2020 · 992 citations
24. Impact of COVID-19 on the food supply chain
    Serpil Aday, Mehmet Seçkin Aday · 2020 · 971 citations
25. Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China*
    Guojun He, Shaoda Wang et al. · 2020 · 957 citations

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