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Robert Lucas Jr.

Economics

#64

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#95

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#49

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Macroeconomics

#18

World Rank

#20

Historical Rank

#13

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Emerson Lucas Jr. was an American economist at the University of Chicago. Widely regarded as the central figure in the development of the new classical approach to macroeconomics, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1995 "for having developed and applied the hypothesis of rational expectations, and thereby having transformed macroeconomic analysis and deepened our understanding of economic policy". He was characterized by N. Gregory Mankiw as "the most influential macroeconomist of the last quarter of the 20th century". In 2020, he ranked as the 10th most cited economist in the world.

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Robert Lucas Jr.'s Published Works

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On the Mechanics of Economic Development (1988) (22503)
Investment Under Uncertainty (1971) (5544)
ASSET PRICES IN AN EXCHANGE ECONOMY (1978) (4842)
Expectations and the neutrality of money (1972) (4539)
Econometric policy evaluation: A critique (1976) (3814)
Recursive methods in economic dynamics (1989) (1970)
Optimal fiscal and monetary policy in an economy without capital (1983) (1878)
Making a miracle (1993) (1728)
UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS CYCLES (1977) (1466)
On the Size Distribution of Business Firms (1978) (1356)
Interest rates and currency prices in a two-country world (1982) (1284)
Models of business cycles (1987) (1259)
Why doeasn''t capital ?ow from rich to poor countries (1990) (1172)
An Equilibrium Model of the Business Cycle (1975) (989)
Adjustment Costs and the Theory of Supply (1967) (967)
Real Wages, Employment, and Inflation (1969) (899)
Money and Interest in a Cash-in-Advance Economy (1984) (855)
Macroeconomic Priorities (2003) (850)
Inflation and Welfare (2000) (772)
Equilibrium search and unemployment (1974) (737)
Liquidity and interest rates (1990) (682)
EQUILIBRIUM IN A PURE CURRENCY ECONOMY (1980) (666)
Methods and Problems in Business Cycle Theory (1980) (621)
ON THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF CITIES (2002) (620)
On Efficient Distribution With Private Information (1992) (547)
Lectures on economic growth (2002) (528)
Two Illustrations of the Quantity Theory of Money (1980) (505)
General Equilibrium Analysis of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade (2005) (502)
Nobel Lecture: Monetary Neutrality (1996) (493)
Studies in business-cycle theory (1987) (484)
Adaptive Behavior and Economic Theory (1986) (464)
The Industrial Revolution: past and future (2004) (445)
OPTIMAL INVESTMENT POLICY AND THE FLEXIBLE ACCELERATOR (1967) (398)
Optimal growth with many consumers (1984) (394)
Knowledge Growth and the Allocation of Time (2011) (365)
After Keynesian Macroeconomics * (1978) (361)
Money demand in the United States: A quantitative review (1988) (325)
Some Macroeconomics for the 21st Century (2000) (324)
Emigration to South Africa's Mines (1987) (314)
On the determinants of direct foreign investment: Evidence from East and Southeast Asia (1993) (313)
The Impact of Financial Crises on Labor Markets, Household Incomes, and Poverty: A Review of Evidence (2002) (280)
Ideas and Growth (2008) (250)
Trade and the Diffusion of the Industrial Revolution (2007) (248)
Interest rates and inflation (2001) (215)
Money in a theory of finance (1984) (194)
Job Security Regulations and the Dynamic Demand for Industrial Labor in India and Zimbabwe (1993) (192)
Hedonic Wage Equations and Psychic Wages in the Returns to Schooling (1977) (185)
Externalities and Cities (2001) (179)
Capacity, Overtime, and Empirical Production Functions (1970) (178)
ON THE MECHANICS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH (1988) (171)
On the stability of money demand (2015) (170)
Efficiency and Equality in a Simple Model of Efficient Unemployment Insurance (1995) (168)
The Impact of Changes in Job Security Regulations in India and Zimbabwe (1991) (163)
Idea Flows, Economic Growth, and Trade (2013) (153)
Studies in Business-Cycle Theory. (1982) (151)
Price Expectations and the Phillips Curve (1969) (139)
HEDONIC PRICE FUNCTIONS (1975) (126)
Tobin and Monetarism: A Review Article (1981) (121)
Principles of fiscal and monetary policy (1986) (120)
Rules, Discretion, and the Role of the Economic Advisor (1980) (105)
Unemployment in the Great Depression: Is There a Full Explanation? (1972) (86)
Discussion of : Stanley Fischer, “towards an understanding of the costs of inflation: II” (1981) (85)
On the welfare cost of inflation (1994) (79)
A Note on Price Systems in Infinite Dimensional Space (1972) (68)
Differences Across Cohorts in Finnish Intergenerational Income Mobility (2007) (68)
Models of Idea Flows (2008) (67)
Real Effects of Monetary Shocks in an Economy with Sequential Purchases (1993) (64)
On Efficiency and Distribution (1992) (64)
Motivations to remit. (1984) (61)
Estimation and Inference for Linear Models in Which Subsets of the Dependent Variable are Constrained (1968) (60)
THE DISTRIBUTION OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS (1974) (60)
Keynote Address to the 2003 HOPE Conference: My Keynesian Education (2005) (56)
Sharing, Monitoring, and Incentives: Marshallian Misallocation Reassessed (1979) (54)
Review of Milton Friedman and Anna J. Schwartz's 'a monetary history of the United States, 1867-1960' (1994) (50)
Yrjo Jahnsson Lectures: Models of Business Cycles. (1987) (48)
NOTES ON ESTIMATED AGGREGATE QUARTERLY CONSUMPTION FUNCTIONS (1962) (47)
International Evidence on Long Run Money Demand (2016) (47)
Tests of a Capital-Theoretic Model of Technological Change (1967) (45)
The American distribution of income : a structural problem : a study (2017) (42)
The Rise in Union Wage Premiums in South Africa (2001) (42)
Enhancing Regional Trade Integration in Southeast Europe (2010) (41)
Effciency and Equality in a Simple Model of Unemployment Insurance (1993) (34)
Demand for India's manufactured exports (1988) (34)
Intergenerational income immobility in Finland: contrasting roles for parental earnings and family income (2013) (32)
Mines and Migrants in South Africa (1985) (31)
Potassium Nutrition of Vegetable Crops (1968) (26)
Working conditions, wage-rates and human capital: a hedonic study. (1973) (25)
Learning, Career Paths, and the Distribution of Wages (2016) (25)
On the Importance of Finnishing School: Half a Century of Inter-generational Economic Mobility in Finland (2004) (24)
Trade and the Di ff usion of the Industrial Revolution (2007) (23)
The supply-of-immigrants function and taxation of immigrant's incomes: An econometric analysis (1975) (22)
Idea Flows and Economic Growth (2018) (20)
Glass-Steagall: A Requiem (2013) (19)
Phosphite Injury to Corn 1 (1979) (18)
Promoting Economic Literacy: Panel Discussion (2002) (16)
Comments on Ball and Mankiw (1994) (15)
Panel discussion: understanding price determination: where are we now? where should we be going? (2005) (14)
Potassium, Calcium, and Magnesium Balance and Recriprocal Relationship in Plants1 (1947) (14)
Remarks on the influence of Edward Prescott (2007) (13)
Reply to muench and polemarchakis and weiss (1977) (12)
MAKING A MIRACLE1 (1993) (12)
What Economists Do (2011) (11)
Liquidity: meaning, measurement, management (2014) (11)
Collected Papers on Monetary Theory (2012) (10)
WHY CAPITAL DOES NOT FLOW FROM RICH TO POOR COUNTRIES (2000) (9)
Liberalization of Indian trade and industrial licensing: A disaggregated econometric model with simulations (1989) (9)
On the theory of DRC criteria (1984) (9)
Is There a Human Capital Approach to Income Inequality (1977) (8)
Book Review:Trade Policy and Market Structure. Elhanan Helpman, Paul R. Krugman (1990) (7)
Present at the creation: Reflections on the 2004 Nobel Prize to Finn Kydland and Edward Prescott (2005) (6)
Wage Inflation and the Structure of Regional Unemployment: Comment (1973) (5)
29 – Equilibrium Search and Unemployment (1978) (5)
An overview of the labor market in India (1986) (5)
Tariffs, Nontraded Goods, and the Optimal Stabilization Policy (1980) (5)
International Environmental Indicators: Trade, Income, and Endowments (1994) (4)
Financial Innovation and the Control of Monetary Aggregates: Some Evidence from Canada (1983) (4)
[World Real Interest Rates]: Comment (1990) (4)
What Was the Industrial Revolution? (2017) (3)
An Empirical Test of the Infant Industry Argument: Comment (1984) (3)
Implications of the Eaton-Kortum Model of International Trade (2004) (3)
Resolution Ex ante versus ex post DRC's and the possibility of negative shadow prices (1987) (3)
Robert E. Lucas, Jr.'s Collected Papers on Monetary Theory * (2015) (3)
Online Appendix for: International Evidence on Long-Run Money Demand (2017) (2)
Introductory Essay: Rational Expectations and Econometric Practice (1981) (2)
Reflections on Economic Growth (2005) (2)
The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics (2017) (2)
As if nothing were going to happen: a search in vain for warnings about the current crisis in economic journals with the highest impact factors (2009) (2)
On the theory of DRC criteria Reply to Pursell and Tower (1987) (2)
The puzzle of sharecropping: A piece refitted (1985) (2)
Frontiers of Research in Economic Theory: On the Mechanics of Economic Development (1987) (1998) (2)
Gains from trade: A model for counterfactual trade policy analysis! (2009) (1)
Trade and Idea Flows (2011) (1)
Lincoln Heights - Princeton Merger - Five Years Later. (1976) (1)
Abilities, Budgets and Age: Inter-Generational Economic Mobility in Finland (2012) (1)
Colonialism and Growth (2012) (1)
Milton Friedman as Teacher and Scholar (2016) (1)
Economic Growth II : Technology , Empirics , and Policy (2013) (1)
Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice. Migración internacional, remesas y la fuga de cerebros. (World Bank Trade and Development Series), Estados Unidos de América: Banco Mundial/Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (2006) (0)
EST RATES AND CURRENCY PRICES IBI A TW@C~UNTRY WORLD (1982) (0)
Onion spacing and population studies. (1970) (0)
Memories of Friedman and Patinkin (2017) (0)
Volume Information (1980) (0)
Volume Information (1991) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES IDEAS AND GROWTH (2008) (0)
Chapter 1 Theory and Econometrics (2013) (0)
Index to Volume 109 (2001) (0)
A Simple Test of Adverse Events and Strategic Timing Theories of Consumer Bankruptcy (2005) (0)
Making a Miracle Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Volume Information (1991) (0)
Menu Costs and Phillips Curves Mikhail Golosov Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005) (0)
Cultural trials on irrigated corn. (1969) (0)
Mobility of Phosphorous and Potassium in Everglades Histosols (1980) (0)
THIS PAPER IS A THEORETICAL examination of the stochastic behavior of equi- librium asset prices in a one-good, pure exchange economy with identical (1978) (0)
Volume Information (1994) (0)
Future Oriented Technologies (2018) (0)
On the Role of Demand Shock and Supply Shock for the Japanese Business Cycle (2018) (0)
The Returns to Investment in a New Technology (2006) (0)
Book Review:Maxima and Minima: Theory and Economic Applications Ragnar Frisch, A. Nataf (1966) (0)
Index to Volume 108 (2000) (0)
Volume Information (1992) (0)
Two Basic Principles (2012) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
ECONOMETRIC POEICY EVALUATION : A CRITIQUE (2006) (0)
Volume Information (1993) (0)
The Princeton Plan: Beyond the Statistics; Princeton's Investment in Children Provides New Opportunities for All. (1971) (0)
Back Matter (1997) (0)
1 Recognizing the Limits of Economists ’ Knowledge (0)
The World Bank Research Observer 17 (1), March 2002 (2002) (0)
You have printed the following article : Optimal Unemployment Insurance (1997) (0)
Volume Information (1990) (0)
The Lucas model misconstrued: Rebuttal (1985) (0)
EC ONOME T R I C A VOLUME 39 September , 1971 NUMBER 5 INVESTMENT UNDER UNCERTAINTY (2007) (0)
General Comments on Part I (2021) (0)
Climate policy and endogenous economic growth with poor substitution possibilities (2019) (0)
The Review of Economic Studies Ltd . On Efficient Distribution with Private Information (1991) (0)
Appendix Idea Flows , Economic Growth , and Trade (2014) (0)
Phosphite injury to corn [Toxicity] (1979) (0)
American Economic Association Some International Evidence on Output-Inflation Tradeoffs Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
International Bank Flows : Determinants and Institutional Role Elias Papaioannou (2004) (0)
Meaning, Measurement, Management (2014) (0)

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