2026 Alex Anas: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	35	2884	2610	1600	1404	101	9415

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

2884

2610

1600

1404

101

9415

Overview

Alex Anas is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences, economics, econometrics, and engineering, with a particular focus on transportation and urban systems.

Their primary fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Engineering

In terms of subfields, their work covers areas such as transportation, economics and econometrics, building and construction, control and systems engineering, and automotive engineering.

Transportation
Economics and Econometrics
Building and Construction
Control and Systems Engineering
Automotive Engineering

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Transportation Planning and Optimization
Urban Transport and Accessibility
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Traffic Control and Management
Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Economic and Environmental Valuation
Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Alex Anas has published in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to the following journals and institutions:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Transportation Research Part B Methodological
Journal of Urban Economics
Economics of Transportation
University of Thessaly

Their recent papers include:

"The cost of congestion and the benefits of congestion pricing: A general equilibrium analysis" (2020), Transportation Research Part B Methodological
"Productivity benefits of urban transportation megaprojects: A general equilibrium analysis of "Grand Paris Express"" (2023), Transportation Research Part B Methodological
"Bus Rapid Transit versus road expansion to alleviate congestion: A general equilibrium comparison" (2021), Economics of Transportation
""Downs's Law" under the lens of theory: Roads lower congestion and increase distance traveled" (2024), Journal of Urban Economics
""Downs's Law" Under the Lens of Theory: Roads Lower Congestion and Increase Distance Traveled" (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alex Anas include:

Huibin Chang
Sayan Sarkar
Govinda R. Timilsina
Ιωάννης Ψυχάρης

Best Publications

Urban Spatial Structure

Alex Anas;Richard Arnott;Kenneth A. Small

2539
Citations
Residential location markets and urban transportation: Economic theory, econometrics, and policy analysis with discrete choice models

Alex Anas

689
Citations
Discrete choice theory, information theory and the multinomial logit and gravity models

Alex Anas

542
Citations
General Equilibrium Models of Polycentric Urban Land Use with Endogenous Congestion and Job Agglomeration

Alex Anas;Ikki Kim

502
Citations
Congestion, Land Use, and Job Dispersion: A General Equilibrium Model

Alex Anas;Rong Xu

316
Citations
Reducing Urban Road Transportation Externalities: Road Pricing in Theory and in Practice

Alex Anas;Robin Lindsey

305
Citations
Dynamics of urban residential growth

Alex Anas

298
Citations
A REGIONAL ECONOMY, LAND USE, AND TRANSPORTATION MODEL (RELU-TRAN©): FORMULATION, ALGORITHM DESIGN, AND TESTING*

Alex Anas;Yu Liu

285
Citations
Curbing excess sprawl with congestion tolls and urban boundaries

Alex Anas;Hyok-Joo Rhee

269
Citations
URBAN SPATIAL STRUCTURE.

Alex Anas;Richard Arnott;Kenneth A. Small

266
Citations
Theories of Systems of Cities

Hesham M. Abdel-Rahman;Alex Anas

265
Citations
THE ESTIMATION OF MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODELS OF JOINT LOCATION AND TRAVEL MODE CHOICE FROM AGGREGATED DATA

Alex Anas

177
Citations
When are urban growth boundaries not second-best policies to congestion tolls?

Alex Anas;Hyok-Joo Rhee

154
Citations
Taste heterogeneity and urban spatial structure: The logit model and monocentric theory reconciled

Alex Anas

144
Citations
Modeling in Urban and Regional Economics

Alex Anas

134
Citations
Anti-sprawl policies in a system of congested cities

Alex Anas;David Pines

130
Citations
Mode choice, transport structure and urban land use

Alex Anas;Leon N. Moses

126
Citations
Costs of Deficient Infrastructure: The Case of Nigerian Manufacturing:

Kyu Sik Lee;Alex Anas

108
Citations
On the birth and growth of cities

Alex Anas

93
Citations
Hedonic analysis of a housing market in disequilibrium

Alex Anas;Sung Jick Eum

87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Arnott University of California, Riverside

Kenneth A. Small University of California, Irvine

Govinda R. Timilsina World Bank

Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain

David Pines Santa Fe Institute

Robin Lindsey University of British Columbia

Allen C. Goodman Wayne State University

External Links

Personal website of Alex Anas Google Scholar page

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