1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
- Harberger, Arnold: "Monopoly and Resource Allocation" (1954, AER)
- Harsanyi, John: "Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility" (1955, JPE)
- Solow, Robert: "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth" (1956, QJE)
- Solow, Robert: "Technical Change and the Aggregate Production Function" (1957, REStat)
1960s
- Coase, Ronald: "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960, JLawE)
- Fogel, Robert: "A Quantitative Approach to the Study of Railroads in American Economic Growth: A Report of Some Preliminary Findings" (1962, JEH)
- Arrow, Kenneth: "Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention" (1962, NBER)
- Arrow, Kenneth: "Uncertainty and the Welfare Economics of Medical Care" (1963, AER)
- Leibenstein, Harvey: "Allocative Efficiency vs. 'X-Efficiency'" (1966, AER)
1970s
- Akerlof, George: "The Market for 'Lemons': Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" (1970, QJE)
- Mirrlees, James: "An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation" (1971, REStud)
- Diamond, Peter: "A Model of Price Adjustment" (1971, JET)
- Diamond, Peter, James Mirrlees: "Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Efficiency" (1971, AER)
- Mirrlees, James: "An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation" (1971, REStud)
- Coase, Ronald: "Durability and Monopoly" (1972, JLawE)
- Alchian, Armen, Harold Demsetz: "Production, Information Costs, and Economic Organization" (1972, AER)
- Stiglitz, Joseph: "Incentives and Risk Sharing in Sharecropping" (1974, REStud)
- Spence, Michael: "Monopoly, Quality, and Regulation" (1975, BELL)
- Stiglitz, Joseph: "The Theory of 'Screening,' Education, and the Distribution of Income" (1975, AER)
- Adams, William, Janet Yellen: "Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly" (1976, QJE)
- Atkinson, Anthony, Joseph Stiglitz: "The Design of Tax Structure: Direct versus Indirect Taxation" (1976, JPubE)
- Dixit, Avinash, Joseph Stiglitz: "Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity" (1977, AER)
- Dornbusch, Rudiger, Stanley Fischer, Paul Samuelson: "Comparative Advantage, Trade, and Payments in a Ricardian Model with a Continuum of Goods" (1977, AER)
- Klein, Benjamin, Robert Crawford, Armen Alchian: "Vertical Integration, Appropriable Rents, and the Competitive Contracting Process" (1978, JLawE)
- Hausman, Jerry: "Individual Discount Rates and the Purchase and Utilization of Energy-Using Durables" (1979, BELL)
- Kahneman, Daniel, Amos Tversky: "Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk" (1979, ECTA)
- Myerson, Roger: "Incentive Compatibility and the Bargaining Problem" (1979, ECTA)
- Krugman, Paul: "Increasing Returns, Monopolistic Competition, and International Trade" (1979, JIntE)
1980s
- Krugman, Paul: "Scale Economies, Product Differentiation, and the Pattern of Trade" (1980, AER)
- Grossman, Sandy, Joseph Stiglitz: "On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets" (1980, AER)
- Stiglitz, Joseph, Andrew Weiss: "Credit Rationing in Markets with Imperfect Information" (1981, AER)
- Krugman, Paul: "Intraindustry Specialization and the Gains from Trade" (1981, JPE)
- Myerson, Roger: "Optimal Auction Design" (1981, MOR)
- Bresnahan, Timothy: "The Oligopoly Solution Concept is Identified" (1982, EL)
- Milgrom, Paul, John Roberts: "Predation, Reputation, and Entry Deterrence" (1982, JET)
- Diamond, Peter: "Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium" (1982, ECTA)
- Kreps, David, Robert Wilson: "Reputation and Imperfect Information" (1982, JET)
- Kreps, David, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts, Robert Wilson: "Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma" (1982, JET)
- Diamond, Peter: "Aggregate Demand Management in Search Equilibrium" (1982, ECTA)
- Kreps, David, Robert Wilson: "Reputation and Imperfect Information" (1982, JET)
- Kreps, David, Paul Milgrom, John Roberts, Robert Wilson: "Rational Cooperation in the Finitely Repeated Prisoners' Dilemma" (1982, JET)
- Milgrom, Paul, Nancy Stokey: "Information, Trade, and Common Knowledge" (1982, JET)
- Milgrom, Paul, Robert Weber: "A Theory of Auctions and Competitive Bidding" (1982, ECTA)
- Braverman, Avishay, Joseph Stiglitz: "Sharecropping and the Interlinking of Agrarian Markets" (1982, AER)
- Burdett, Kenneth, Kenneth Judd: "Equilibrium Price Dispersion" (1983, ECTA)
- Burdett, Kenneth, Kenneth Judd: "Equilibrium Price Dispersion" (1983, ECTA)
- Brander, James, Paul Krugman: "A 'Reciprocal Dumping' Model of International Trade" (1983, NBERWP)
- Green, Edward, Robert Porter: "Noncooperative Collusion under Imperfect Price Information" (1984, ECTA)
- Shapiro, Carl, Joseph Stiglitz: "Equilibrium Unemployment as a Worker Discipline Device" (1984, AER)
- Perloff, Jeffrey, Steven Salop: "Equilibrium with Product Differentiation" (1985, REStud)
- Thaler, Richard: "Mental Accounting and Consumer Choice" (1985, MS)
- Glosten, Lawrence, Paul Milgrom: "Bid, Ask and Transaction Prices in a Specialist Market with Heterogeneously Informed Traders" (1985, JFE)
- Pakes, Ariel: "Patents as Options: Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks" (1986, ECTA)
- Romer, Paul: "Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth" (1986, JPE)
- Grossman, Sandy, Oliver Hart: "The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration" (1986, JPE)
- Bresnahan, Timothy: "Competition and Collusion in the American Automobile Industry: The 1955 Price War" (1987, JIE)
- Rust, John: "Optimal Replacement of GMC Bus Engines: An Empirical Model of Harold Zurcher" (1987, ECTA)
- Thisse, Jean-Francois, Xavier Vives: "On the Strategic Choice of Spatial Price Policy" (1988, AER)
- Lucas, Robert: "On the Mechanics of Economic Development" (1988, JME)
- Hart, Oliver, John Moore: "Incomplete Contracts and Renegotiation" (1988, ECTA)
- Bulow, Jeremy, John Roberts: "The Simple Economics of Optimal Auctions" (1989, JPE)
1990s
- Trajtenberg, Manuel: "A Penny for Your Quotes: Patent Citations and the Value of Innovation" (1990, RAND)
- Romer, Paul: "Endogenous Technological Change" (1990, JPE)
- Hart, Oliver, John Moore: "Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm" (1990, JPE)
- Kahneman, Daniel, Jack Knetsch, Richard Thaler: "Anomalies: The Endowment Effect, Loss Aversion, and Status Quo Bias" (1991, JEP)
- Holmstrom, Bengt, Paul Milgrom: "Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design" (1991, JLEO)
- Aghion, Philippe, Peter Howitt: "A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction" (1992, ECTA)
- Mankiw, Greg, David Romer, David Weil: "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" (1992, QJE)
- Banerjee, Abhijit: "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior" (1992, QJE)
- Aghion, Philippe, Peter Howitt: "A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction" (1992, ECTA)
- Mankiw, Greg, David Romer, David Weil: "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth" (1992, QJE)
- Banerjee, Abhijit: "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior" (1992, QJE)
- Kremer, Michael: "The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development" (1993, QJE)
- Kremer, Michael: "Population Growth and Technological Change" (1993, QJE)
- Romer, Paul: "The Origins of Endogenous Growth" (1994, JEP)
- Romer, Paul: "The Origins of Endogenous Growth" (1994, JEP)
- Berry, Steven, James Levinsohn, Ariel Pakes: "Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium" (1995, ECTA)
- Ericson, Richard, Ariel Pakes: "Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics: A Framework for Empirical Work" (1995, REStud)
- Ayres, Ian, Peter Siegelman: "Race and Gender Discrimination in Bargaining for a New Car" (1995, AER)
- Hausman, Jerry: "The Valuation of New Goods Under Perfect and Imperfect Competition" (1996, NBER)
- Olley, G. Steven, Ariel Pakes: "The Dynamics of Productivity in the Telecommunications Equipment Industry" (1996, ECTA)
- Bulow, Jeremy, Paul Klemperer: "Auctions Versus Negotiations" (1996, AER)
- Laibson, David: "Golden Eggs and Hyperbolic Discounting" (1997, QJE)
- Klenow, Pete, Andres Rodriguez-Clare: "The Neoclassical Revival in Growth Economics: Has It Gone Too Far?" (1997, NBERMacro)
- Ellison, Glenn, Edward Glaeser: "Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach" (1997, JPE)
- Nordhaus, William: "Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Lighting Suggests Not" (1998, NBER)
- Kremer, Michael: "Patent Buyouts: A Mechanism for Encouraging Innovation" (1998, QJE)
- Abowd, John, Francis Kramarz, David Margolis: "High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms" (1999, ECTA)
- Milyo, Jeffrey, Joel Waldfogel: "The Effect of Price Advertising on Prices: Evidence in the Wake of 44 Liquormart" (1999, AER)
- Feldstein, Martin: "Tax Avoidance and the Deadweight Loss of the Income Tax" (1999, REStat)
2000s
- Acemoglu, Daron, Joshua Angrist: "How Large are Human-Capital Externalities? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws" (2000, NBERMacro)
- Nevo, Aviv: "Measuring Market Power in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry" (2001, ECTA)
- Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, James Robinson: "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" (2001, AER)
- Levitt, Steven, Jack Porter: "How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers?" (2001, JPE)
- Duflo, Esther: "Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment" (2001, AER)
- Bertrand, Marianne, Sendhil Mullainathan: "Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are" (2001, QJE)
- Acemoglu, Daron: "Directed Technical Change" (2002, REStud)
- Acemoglu, Daron: "Directed Technical Change" (2002, REStud)
- Eaton, Jonathan, Samuel Kortum: "Technology, Geography, and Trade" (2002, ECTA)
- Klemperer, Paul: "What Really Matters In Auction Design" (2002, JEP)
- Levinsohn, James, Amil Petrin: "Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables" (2003, REStud)
- Abadie, Alberto, Javier Gardeazabal: "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Case Study of the Basque Country" (2003, AER)
- Hausman, Jerry: "Sources of Bias and Solutions to Bias in the Consumer Price Index" (2003, JEP)
- Melitz, Marc: "The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity" (2003, ECTA)
- Bertrand, Marianne, Sendhil Mullainathan: "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (2004, AER)
- Glaeser, Edward, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer: "Do Institutions Cause Growth" (2004, JEG)
- Bertrand, Marianne, Esther Duflo, Sendhil Mullainathan: "How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates?" (2004, QJE)
- Kremer, Michael, Edward Miguel: "Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities" (2004, ECTA)
- Groseclose, Tim, Jeffrey Milyo: "A Measure of Media Bias" (2005, QJE)
- Shleifer, Andrei, Sendhil Mullainathan: "The Market for News" (2005, AER)
- Bernhofen, Daniel, John Brown: "An Empirical Assessment of the Comparative Advantage Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan" (2005, AER)
- Duranton, Gilles, Henry Overman: "Testing for Localization Using Micro-Geographic Data" (2005, REStud)
- Chetty, Raj, Emmanuel Saez: "Dividend Taxes and Corporate Behavior: Evidence from the 2003 Dividend Tax Cut" (2005, QJE)
- Gentzkow, Matthew, Jesse Shapiro: "Media Bias and Reputation" (2006, JPE)
- Chetty, Raj: "A New Method of Estimating Risk Aversion" (2006, AER)
- Gentzkow, Matthew: "Valuing New Goods in a Model with Complementarity: Online Newspapers" (2007, AER)
- Dellavigna, Stefano, Ethan Kaplan: "The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting" (2007, QJE)
- Bloom, Nicholas, John Van Reenen: "Measuring and Explaining Management Practices across Firms and Countries" (2007, QJE)
- Chetty, Raj, Adam Looney: "Consumption Commitments and Risk Preferences" (2007, QJE)
- Duflo, Esther, Rohini Pande: "Dams" (2007, QJE)
- Chetty, Raj: "Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance" (2008, JPE)
- Jones, Benjamin: "The Burden of Knowledge and the 'Death of the Renaissance Man': Is Innovation Getting Harder?" (2008, REStud)
- Melitz, Marc, Gianmarco Ottaviano: "Market Size, Trade, and Productivity" (2008, REStud)
- Hsieh, Chang-ta, Pete Klenow: "Misallocation and Manufacturing TFP in China and India" (2009, QJE)
- Chetty, Raj, Adam Looney, Kory Kroft: "Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence" (2009, AER)
- Costinot, Arnaud: "An Elementary Theory of Comparative Advantage" (2009, ECTA)
2010s
- Gentzkow, Matthew and Jesse Shapiro: "What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers" (2010, ECTA)
- Dell, Melissa: "The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita" (2010, ECTA)
- Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, Mark Cullen: "Estimating Welfare In Insurance Markets Using Variation In Prices" (2010, QJE)
- Chetty, Raj, Emmanuel Saez: "Dividend and Corporate Taxation in an Agency Model of the Firm" (2010, AEJ:EP)
- Duflo, Esther, Michael Kremer, James Robinson: "Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya" (2011, AER)
- Kamenica, Emir, Matthew Gentzkow: "Bayesian Persuasion" (2011, AER)
- Kamenica, Emir, Matthew Gentzkow: "Bayesian Persuasion" (2011, AER)
- Ryan, Stephen: "The Costs of Environmental Regulation in a Concentrated Industry" (2012, ECTA)
- Dell, Melissa, Ben Jones, Ben Olken: "Temperature Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from the Last Half Century" (2012, AEJ:Macro)
- Arkolakis, Costas, Arnaud Costinot, Andres Rodriguez-Clare: "New Trade Models, Same Old Gains?" (2012, AER)
- Bloom, Nicholas, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, John Roberts: "Does Management Matter? Evidence from India" (2013, QJE)
- Autor, David, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson: "The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States" (2013, AER)
- Bloom, Nicholas, Mark Schankerman, John Van Reenen: "Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry" (2013, ECTA)
- Williams, Heidi: "Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation: Evidence from the Human Genome" (2013, JPE)
- Atkin, David, Dave Donaldson: "Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intra-national Trade Costs" (2014, mimeo)
- Ackerberg, Daniel, Kevin Caves, Garth Frazer: "Identification Properties of Recent Production Function Estimators" (2015, ECTA)
- Alsan, Marcella: "The Effect of the TseTse on African Development" (2015, AER)
- Banerjee, Abhijit, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Cynthia Kinnan: "The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation" (2015, AEJ:EP)
- Ahlfeldt, Gabriel, Stephen Redding, Daniel Sturm, Nikolaus Wolf: "The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall" (2015, ECTA)
- Finkelstein, Amy, Matthew Gentzkow, Heidi Williams: "Sources of Geographic Variation in Health Care" (2016, QJE)
- Donaldson, Dave, Richard Hornbeck: "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A 'Market Access' Approach" (2016, QJE)
- Andrews, Isaiah, Matthew Gentzkow, Jesse Shapiro: "Measuring the Sensitivity of Parameter Estimates to Estimation Moments" (2017, QJE)
- Miller, Nathan, Matthew Weinberg: "Understanding the Price Effects of the MillerCoors Joint Venture" (2017, ECTA)
- Duflo, Esther: "The Economist as Plumber" (2017, AER)
- Chetty, Raj, Nathaniel Hendren: "The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: Childhood Exposure Effects and Count-Level Estimates" (2018, QJE)
- Donaldson, Dave: "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure" (2018, AER)
- Hsieh, Chang-tai, Erik Hurst, Chad Jones, Pete Klenow: "The Allocation of Talent and U.S. Economic Growth" (2019, ECTA)
- Kline, Patrick, Neviana Petkova, Heidi Williams, Owen Zidar: "Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms" (2019, QJE)
- Andrews, Isaiah, Maximilian Kasy: "Identification Of and Correction For Publication Bias" (2019, AER)
- Adao, Rodrigo, Michal Kolesar, Eduardo Morales: "Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference" (2019, QJE)
- Jaravel, Xavier: "The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the U.S. Retail Sector" (2019, QJE)
- Bell, Alex, Raj Chetty, Xavier Jaravel, Neviana Petkova, John Van Reenen: "Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation" (2019, QJE)
- Arkolakis, Costas, Arnaud Costinot, Dave Donaldson, Andres Rodriguez-Clare: "The Elusive Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade" (2019, REStud)
2020s
- De Loecker, Jan, Jan Eeckhout, Gabriel Unger: "The Rise of Market Power and the Macroeconomic Implications" (2020, QJE)
- Boehm, Johannes, Ezra Oberfield: "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs" (2020, QJE)
- Sanchez de la Sierra, Raul: "On the Origins of the State: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo" (2020, JPE)
- Koh, Dongya, Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Yu Zheng: "Labor Share Decline and Intellectual Property Products Capital" (2020, ECTA)
- Bloom, Nicholas, John Van Reenen, Chad Jones, Michael Webb: "Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?" (2020, AER)
- Backus, Matthew, Chris Conlon, Michael Sinkinson: "Common Ownership in America: 1980-2017" (2021, AEJ:Micro)
- Igami, Mitsuru, Takuo Sugaya: "Measuring the Incentive to Collude: The Vitamin Cartels, 1990-1999" (2021, REStud)
- Berry, Steven, Phil Haile: "Foundations of Demand Estimation" (2022, NBER)
- Egger, Dennis, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, Michael Walker: "General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" (2022, ECTA)
- Moscona, Jacob, Karthik Sastry: "Does Directed Innovation Mitigate Climate Damage? Evidence from U.S. Agriculture" (2022, QJE)
- Jones, Chad: "The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population" (2022, AER)
- Jones, Chad: "The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a Declining Population" (2022, AER)
- Raval, Devesh: "Testing the Production Function Approach to Markup Estimation" (2023, REStud)
- Abadie, Alberto, Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Jeffrey Wooldridge: "When Should You Adjust Standard Errors for Clustering?" (2023, QJE)
- Eden, Maya: "The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate" (2023, ECTA)
- Hornbeck, Richard, Martin Rotemberg: "Growth Off the Rails: Aggregate Productivity Growth in Distorted Economies" (2024, JPE)
- Lashkari, Danial, Xavier Jaravel: "Measuring Growth in Consumer Welfare with Income-Dependent Preferences: Nonparametric Methods and Estimates for the U.S." (2024, QJE)
- Herbst, Daniel, Nathaniel Hendren: "Opportunity Unraveled: Private Information and the Missing Markets for financing Human Capital" (2024, AER)
- Garg, Tishara: "Can Industrial Policy Overcome Coordination Failures? Theory and Evidence" (2025, WP)
- Borusyak, Kirill, Peter Hull, Xavier Jaravel: "A Practical Guide to Shift-Share Instruments" (2025, JEP)
- Vu, Patrick: "Do Standard Error Corrections Exacerbate Publication Bias?" (2025, mimeo)
- Bajari, Patrick, Zhihao Cen, Victor Chernozhukov, Manoj Manukonda, Suhas Vijaykumar, Jun Wang, Ramon Huerta, Jumbo Li, Ling Leng, George Monokroussos, Shan Wan: "Hedonic Prices and Quality Adjusted Price Indices Powered by AI" (2025, JoE)
- Vatter, Benjamin: "Quality Disclosure and Regulation: Scoring Design in Medicare Advantage" (2025, ECTA)
- Backus, Matthew, Chris Conlon, Michael Sinkinson: "Common Ownership and Competition in the Ready-to-Eat Cereal Industry" (2026, ECTA)
- Currier, Lindsay, Edward Glaeser, Gabriel Kreindler: "Infrastructure Inequality: Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?" (2026, QJE)
- Patel, Dev: "Floods" (2026, QJE)
- Oberfield, Ezra: "Inequality and Measured Growth" (2026, ECTA)