2026 Austan Goolsbee: 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	44	1823	1639	1075	942	118	12109

Research.com Recognitions

2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Austan Goolsbee is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their work focuses extensively on topics related to the economic and epidemiological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, combining expertise in economics, modeling, simulation, and statistical physics.

Their recent publications include:

Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020 (2020, Journal of Public Economics)
COVID-19 Lockdown Policies at the State and Local Level (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020 (2020, SSRN Electronic Journal)
Monopsony Power in Higher Education: A Tale of Two Tracks (2023, Journal of Labor Economics)
The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the U.S. Construction Sector (2023, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

Chad Syverson
Rebecca Goldgof
Nicole Bei Luo
Roxanne Nesbitt
Joe Tatarka

Goolsbee's research has been published primarily in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal (6 publications)
Journal of Public Economics (1 publication)
Journal of Labor Economics (1 publication)

Their fields of study cover:

Economics and Econometrics
Modeling and Simulation
Global and Planetary Change
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Management Science and Operations Research

Main topics addressed in Goolsbee's research include:

COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
COVID-19 epidemiological studies
COVID-19 impact on air quality
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
Game Theory and Applications
Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets

In 2000, Austan Goolsbee was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry

Jeffrey R. Brown;Austan Goolsbee

1329
Citations
How Do Incumbents Respond to the Threat of Entry? Evidence from the Major Airlines

Austan Goolsbee Goolsbee;Chad Syverson Syverson

833
Citations
Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020

Austan Goolsbee;Chad Syverson

803
Citations
Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com

Judith Chevalier;Judith Chevalier;Austan Goolsbee;Austan Goolsbee

694
Citations
Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers

Austan Goolsbee;Peter J. Klenow

691
Citations
In a World Without Borders: The Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Austan Goolsbee

577
Citations
THE CONSUMER GAINS FROM DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITES AND THE COMPETITION WITH CABLE TV

Austan Goolsbee;Amil Petrin

527
Citations
Does Government R&D Policy Mainly Benefit Scientists and Engineers?

Austan Goolsbee

527
Citations
THE IMPACT OF INTERNET SUBSIDIES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Austan Goolsbee;Austan Goolsbee;Austan Goolsbee;Jonathan Guryan;Jonathan Guryan

473
Citations
What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation

Austan Goolsbee

470
Citations
Investment Tax Incentives, Prices, and the Supply of Capital Goods

Austan Goolsbee

362
Citations
Coveting thy neighbor’s manufacturing: the dilemma of state income apportionment

Austan Goolsbee;Edward L. Maydew

314
Citations
Competition in the Computer Industry: Online Versus Retail

Austan Goolsbee

235
Citations
Investment, Overhang, and Tax Policy

Mihir A. Desai;Austan D. Goolsbee

219
Citations
Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Austan Goolsbee;Judith Chevalier

217
Citations
Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce

Austan Goolsbee;Jonathan Zittrain

215
Citations
Are Durable Goods Consumers Forward-Looking? Evidence from College Textbooks

Judith A Chevalier;Austan Goolsbee

210
Citations
EVIDENCE ON THE HIGH-INCOME LAFFER CURVE FROM SIX DECADES OF TAX REFORM

Austan Goolsbee

204
Citations
Competition in the Computer Industry: Online Versus Retail

Austan Goolsbee

203
Citations
Measuring Prices and Price Competition Online: Amazon and Barnes and Noble

Austan Goolsbee;Austan Goolsbee;Judith Chevalier;Judith Chevalier

202
Citations
Playing with Fire: Cigarettes, Taxes, and Competition from the Internet

Austan Goolsbee;Michael F. Lovenheim;Joel Slemrod

173
Citations
Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet

Austan Goolsbee;Peter J Klenow

170
Citations
Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry

Jeffrey R. Brown;Austan Goolsbee;Austan Goolsbee

141
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Chad Syverson University of Chicago

Peter J. Klenow Stanford University

Edward L. Maydew University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Alan B. Krueger Princeton University

Jeffrey R. Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Joel Slemrod University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford

Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago

Robert S. Pindyck MIT

Shane Greenstein Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Austan Goolsbee Google Scholar page

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