A service of RePEc's IDEAS website provides a listing of the top 1% of the 800,000+ research items in RePEc by number of citations, weighted by simple impact factors and discounted by the age of each citation in years. In 2007, this list was first unveiled, containing the top 200 items. At that time, papers by Neenan Prof. James Anderson and Prof. Susanto Basu were on the list.
The list, now containing 862 items, currently features seven published papers by four BC faculty authors. Paper #109 is "Gravity with Gravitas: A Solution to the Border Puzzle," by Neenan Prof. James Anderson and Eric van Wincoop (American Economic Review, 2003), while their JEL survey of "Trade Costs" is #150. Anderson's "A Theoretical Foundation for the Gravity Equation" (AER, 1979) appears as #563, despite its age.
Prof. Susanto Basu's paper with John Fernald, "Returns to Scale in U.S. Production: Estimates and Implications" (Journal of Political Economy, 1997) appears as #189, while Basu's 2006 AER paper with Fernald and Miles Kimball, "Are Technology Improvements Contractionary?", appears as #341.
Assoc. Prof. Christopher F Baum's 2003 Stata Journal paper with Mark Schaffer and Steven Stillman, "Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing", appears at #546 on the list, while Prof. Peter Gottschalk's 1994 BPEA paper with Robert Moffitt, "The Growth of Earnings Instability in the U.S. Labor Market," is at #667.
The list at IDEAS is headed up by Christiano-Eichenbaum-Evans' 2005 JPE paper on monetary policy rules. IDEAS is managed by Christian Zimmermann of the University of Connecticut economics department.
5 Mar 2010