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1 | The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 21,761 |
2 | Law and Finance | Journal of Political Economy | 1998 | 14,766 |
3 | Increasing Returns and Long-Run Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 12,568 |
4 | Endogenous Technological Change | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 12,251 |
5 | Risk, Return, and Equilibrium: Empirical Tests | Journal of Political Economy | 1973 | 11,939 |
6 | A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures | Journal of Political Economy | 1956 | 9,199 |
7 | Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach | Journal of Political Economy | 1968 | 9,165 |
8 | Agency Problems and the Theory of the Firm | Journal of Political Economy | 1980 | 7,720 |
9 | Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 7,443 |
10 | Increasing Returns and Economic Geography | Journal of Political Economy | 1991 | 7,325 |
11 | The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 7,048 |
12 | A New Approach to Consumer Theory | Journal of Political Economy | 1966 | 6,694 |
13 | Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity | Journal of Political Economy | 1983 | 6,676 |
14 | Large Shareholders and Corporate Control | Journal of Political Economy | 1986 | 6,153 |
15 | Rules Rather than Discretion: The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans | Journal of Political Economy | 1977 | 5,409 |
16 | A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades | Journal of Political Economy | 1992 | 5,053 |
17 | The Structure of Corporate Ownership: Causes and Consequences | Journal of Political Economy | 1985 | 4,866 |
18 | Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,783 |
19 | The Economics of Information | Journal of Political Economy | 1961 | 4,688 |
20 | Performance Pay and Top-Management Incentives | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,678 |
21 | Investment in Human Capital: A Theoretical Analysis | Journal of Political Economy | 1962 | 4,602 |
22 | Credit Cycles | Journal of Political Economy | 1997 | 4,560 |
23 | Liquidity Risk and Expected Stock Returns | Journal of Political Economy | 2003 | 4,455 |
24 | Information and Consumer Behavior | Journal of Political Economy | 1970 | 4,389 |
25 | Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy | Journal of Political Economy | 2005 | 4,282 |
26 | On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health | Journal of Political Economy | 1972 | 4,209 |
27 | By Force of Habit: A Consumption‐Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior | Journal of Political Economy | 1999 | 4,103 |
28 | Are Government Bonds Net Wealth? | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 4,096 |
29 | Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 4,024 |
30 | Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 3,931 |
31 | Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 3,854 |
32 | A Rational Theory of the Size of Government | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 3,712 |
33 | The Economics of Exhaustible Resources | Journal of Political Economy | 1931 | 3,487 |
34 | Growth in Cities | Journal of Political Economy | 1992 | 3,466 |
35 | Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics | Journal of Political Economy | 1976 | 3,435 |
36 | Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 3,241 |
37 | The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery | Journal of Political Economy | 1954 | 3,131 |
38 | Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory | Journal of Political Economy | 1950 | 3,086 |
39 | The Role of Market Forces in Assuring Contractual Performance | Journal of Political Economy | 1981 | 2,977 |
40 | Experimental Tests of the Endowment Effect and the Coase Theorem | Journal of Political Economy | 1990 | 2,887 |
41 | A Theory of Rational Addiction | Journal of Political Economy | 1988 | 2,879 |
42 | Financial Contagion | Journal of Political Economy | 2000 | 2,877 |
43 | Enjoying the Quiet Life? Corporate Governance and Managerial Preferences | Journal of Political Economy | 2003 | 2,873 |
44 | Advertising as Information | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 2,623 |
45 | Cardinal Welfare, Individualistic Ethics, and Interpersonal Comparisons of Utility | Journal of Political Economy | 1955 | 2,616 |
46 | Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables: Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools | Journal of Political Economy | 2005 | 2,615 |
47 | Oil and the Macroeconomy since World War II | Journal of Political Economy | 1983 | 2,590 |
48 | An Exact Consumption-Loan Model of Interest with or without the Social Contrivance of Money | Journal of Political Economy | 1958 | 2,585 |
49 | Stochastic Implications of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence | Journal of Political Economy | 1978 | 2,585 |
50 | A Theory of Social Interactions | Journal of Political Economy | 1974 | 2,557 |