| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Some Tests of Specification for Panel Data: Monte Carlo Evidence and an Application to Employment Equations | Review of Economic Studies | 1991 | 20,669 |
| 2 | Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring | Review of Economic Studies | 1984 | 5,514 |
| 3 | The Lagrange Multiplier Test and its Applications to Model Specification in Econometrics | Review of Economic Studies | 1980 | 5,307 |
| 4 | The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing | Review of Economic Studies | 1962 | 5,189 |
| 5 | Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem | Review of Economic Studies | 1993 | 4,192 |
| 6 | Estimating Production Functions Using Inputs to Control for Unobservables | Review of Economic Studies | 2003 | 3,884 |
| 7 | Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme | Review of Economic Studies | 1997 | 3,647 |
| 8 | Statistical Inference in Instrumental Variables Regression with I(1) Processes | Review of Economic Studies | 1990 | 3,098 |
| 9 | An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation | Review of Economic Studies | 1971 | 3,041 |
| 10 | Liquidity Preference as Behavior Towards Risk | Review of Economic Studies | 1958 | 2,903 |
| 11 | Income Distribution and Macroeconomics | Review of Economic Studies | 1993 | 2,600 |
| 12 | Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator | Review of Economic Studies | 1998 | 2,542 |
| 13 | The Political Business Cycle | Review of Economic Studies | 1975 | 2,528 |
| 14 | Automatic Lag Selection in Covariance Matrix Estimation | Review of Economic Studies | 1994 | 2,457 |
| 15 | Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Theory of Unemployment | Review of Economic Studies | 1994 | 2,446 |
| 16 | Uncertain Lifetime, Life Insurance, and the Theory of the Consumer | Review of Economic Studies | 1965 | 2,232 |
| 17 | Myopia and Inconsistency in Dynamic Utility Maximization | Review of Economic Studies | 1955 | 2,231 |
| 18 | Prices vs. Quantities | Review of Economic Studies | 1974 | 2,158 |
| 19 | Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective | Review of Economic Studies | 1999 | 2,034 |
| 20 | Time Varying Structural Vector Autoregressions and Monetary Policy | Review of Economic Studies | 2005 | 1,939 |
| 21 | Analysis of Covariance with Qualitative Data | Review of Economic Studies | 1980 | 1,910 |
| 22 | Market Size, Trade, and Productivity | Review of Economic Studies | 2008 | 1,847 |
| 23 | Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation | Review of Economic Studies | 2003 | 1,815 |
| 24 | Protection and Real Wages | Review of Economic Studies | 1941 | 1,690 |
| 25 | Stochastic Volatility: Likelihood Inference and Comparison with ARCH Models | Review of Economic Studies | 1998 | 1,653 |
| 26 | Debt with Potential Repudiation: Theoretical and Empirical Analysis | Review of Economic Studies | 1981 | 1,643 |
| 27 | An Incomplete Contracts Approach to Financial Contracting | Review of Economic Studies | 1992 | 1,605 |
| 28 | Markov-Perfect Industry Dynamics: A Framework for Empirical Work | Review of Economic Studies | 1995 | 1,516 |
| 29 | A Note on Measurement of Utility | Review of Economic Studies | 1937 | 1,508 |
| 30 | Quality Ladders in the Theory of Growth | Review of Economic Studies | 1991 | 1,505 |
| 31 | Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator | Review of Economic Studies | 2012 | 1,491 |
| 32 | The General Theory of Second Best | Review of Economic Studies | 1956 | 1,473 |
| 33 | Financial Contracting Theory Meets the Real World: An Empirical Analysis of Venture Capital Contracts | Review of Economic Studies | 2003 | 1,437 |
| 34 | The Explanation of Productivity Change | Review of Economic Studies | 1967 | 1,431 |
| 35 | Semiparametric Difference-in-Differences Estimators | Review of Economic Studies | 2005 | 1,412 |
| 36 | Relaxing Price Competition Through Product Differentiation | Review of Economic Studies | 1982 | 1,399 |
| 37 | Optimum Growth in an Aggregative Model of Capital Accumulation | Review of Economic Studies | 1965 | 1,373 |
| 38 | Intergenerational Equity and Exhaustible Resources | Review of Economic Studies | 1974 | 1,371 |
| 39 | A Non-cooperative Equilibrium for Supergames | Review of Economic Studies | 1971 | 1,326 |
| 40 | Uncertainty and Investment Dynamics | Review of Economic Studies | 2007 | 1,311 |
| 41 | Yield Spreads and Interest Rate Movements: A Bird's Eye View | Review of Economic Studies | 1991 | 1,282 |
| 42 | Directed Technical Change | Review of Economic Studies | 2002 | 1,270 |
| 43 | Financial Intermediation and Endogenous Growth | Review of Economic Studies | 1991 | 1,269 |
| 44 | Incentive-Compatible Debt Contracts: The One-Period Problem | Review of Economic Studies | 1985 | 1,229 |
| 45 | Trade Liberalization, Exit, and Productivity Improvements: Evidence from Chilean Plants | Review of Economic Studies | 2002 | 1,221 |
| 46 | Discrete Choice with Social Interactions | Review of Economic Studies | 2001 | 1,203 |
| 47 | Alternative Theories of Distribution | Review of Economic Studies | 1955 | 1,196 |
| 48 | Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Volatility in a Small Open Economy | Review of Economic Studies | 2005 | 1,195 |
| 49 | Market Share, Market Value and Innovation in a Panel of British Manufacturing Firms | Review of Economic Studies | 1999 | 1,139 |
| 50 | The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk | Review of Economic Studies | 1969 | 1,133 |
