# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3017185871) · 6,385 citations
2. [Do Investors Care about Carbon Risk?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3123217383) · 3,389 citations · Free PDF
3. [Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W4205539948) · 2,540 citations
4. [The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2611356021) · 2,244 citations · Free PDF
5. [Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2989970761) · 2,008 citations
6. [The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2964383261) · 1,949 citations · Free PDF
7. [The impact of COVID-19 on small business outcomes and expectations](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3032856638) · 1,624 citations
8. [Refined Measures of Dynamic Connectedness based on Time-Varying Parameter Vector Autoregressions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3017452399) · 1,581 citations · Free PDF
9. [The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3043617920) · 1,537 citations
10. [Estimated Research and Development Investment Needed to Bring a New Medicine to Market, 2009-2018](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3009999522) · 1,522 citations · Free PDF
11. [Strategies for mitigation of climate change: a review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3046476263) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3024110832) · 1,336 citations
13. [US Health Care Spending by Payer and Health Condition, 1996-2016](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3010268726) · 1,297 citations
14. [Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3122263577) · 1,238 citations
15. [Resiliency of Environmental and Social Stocks: An Analysis of the Exogenous COVID-19 Market Crash](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3021084400) · 1,168 citations
16. [COVID-19 risks to global food security](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3046728009) · 1,134 citations
17. [Carbon Tail Risk](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3121471843) · 1,114 citations
18. [U.S. Monetary Policy and the Global Financial Cycle](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3121758494) · 1,087 citations · Free PDF
19. [Technologies and policies to decarbonize global industry: Review and assessment of mitigation drivers through 2070](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3013534207) · 1,043 citations · Free PDF
20. [Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3023863810) · 1,031 citations · Free PDF
21. [Fast Poisson estimation with high-dimensional fixed effects](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3014036974) · 1,026 citations
22. [Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2750722266) · 1,005 citations · Free PDF
23. [Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3124611303) · 992 citations
24. [Impact of COVID-19 on the food supply chain](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3096753723) · 971 citations
25. [Watering Down Environmental Regulation in China*](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3036636794) · 957 citations

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