2026 Ben Lockwood: 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	49	1444	1286	159	144	171	10320

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Economics and Finance

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Overview

Ben Lockwood is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions span across social sciences and economics, with particular focus on economics, econometrics, and finance.

Their scholarly output includes publications in various academic venues, notably:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Public Economics
Global Environmental Politics
Ecological Economics
The Economic Journal

Frequent collaborators of Ben Lockwood include James Rockey, Minh Le, Nattavudh Powdthavee, Andrew J. Oswald, and Eddy H.F. Tam. These coauthors have recurrently contributed to work in related fields alongside Lockwood.

Their research topics cover a range of subjects such as:

Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Game Theory and Voting Systems
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
Taxation and Compliance Studies
Health Disparities and Outcomes
Media Influence and Politics

Lockwood's subfields of study incorporate:

Economics and Econometrics
Political Science and International Relations
Sociology and Political Science
Accounting
Gender Studies

Recent research papers authored or coauthored by Ben Lockwood include:

"More giving or more givers? The effects of tax incentives on charitable donations in the UK," 2020, Journal of Public Economics
"How Do Right-Wing Populist Parties Influence Climate and Renewable Energy Policies? Evidence from OECD Countries," 2022, Global Environmental Politics
"Negative Voters? Electoral Competition with Loss-Aversion," 2020, The Economic Journal
"Are environmental concerns deterring people from having children? Longitudinal evidence on births in the UK," 2024, Ecological Economics
"Are Environmental Concerns Deterring People from Having Children?," 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

Do countries compete over corporate tax rates

Michael P. Devereux;Ben Lockwood;Michela Redoano

1113
Citations
The value added tax: Its causes and consequences

Michael Keen;Ben Lockwood

729
Citations
Distributive Politics and the Costs of Centralization

Ben Lockwood

636
Citations
Decentralization and the productive efficiency of government: Evidence from Swiss cantons

Iwan Barankay;Ben Lockwood

439
Citations
Horizontal and Vertical Indirect Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence from the USA

Michael Devereux;Michael Devereux;Ben Lockwood;Ben Lockwood;Michela Redoano

392
Citations
Information Externalities in the Labour Market and the Duration of Unemployment

Ben Lockwood

373
Citations
Wage setting and the tax system theory and evidence for the United Kingdom

Ben Lockwood;Alan Manning

363
Citations
Does Asset Ownership Always Motivate Managers? Outside Options and the Property Rights Theory of the Firm

David de Meza;Ben Lockwood

319
Citations
Regressive Sin Taxes, With an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax

Hunt Allcott;Benjamin B Lockwood;Dmitry Taubinsky

287
Citations
Should We Tax Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? An Overview of Theory and Evidence

Hunt Allcott;Benjamin B. Lockwood;Dmitry Taubinsky

265
Citations
Inter-regional insurance

Ben Lockwood

222
Citations
Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect: Theory and Evidence

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217
Citations
Carbon-motivated border tax adjustments: old wine in green bottles?

Ben Lockwood;John Whalley

201
Citations
Fiscal decentralization : a political economy perspective

Ben Lockwood

181
Citations
Tax competition and tax co-ordination under destination and origin principles: a synthesis

Ben Lockwood

167
Citations
ROGOFF'S 'CONSERVATIVE' CENTRAL BANKER RESTORED

Berthold Herrendorf;Ben Lockwood

156
Citations
How Robust is the Foreign Policy/Kearney Index of Globalisation?

Ben Lockwood

149
Citations
The Political Economy of Decentralization

Ben Lockwood

142
Citations
Taxation and the Allocation of Talent

Benjamin B. Lockwood;Charles Gordon Nathanson;E. Glen Weyl

140
Citations
Commodity tax competition under destination and origin principles

Ben Lockwood;Ben Lockwood

138
Citations
Does tax competition really promote growth

Marko Koethenbuerger;Ben Lockwood

134
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

David de Meza London School of Economics and Political Science

Michael P. Devereux University of Oxford

Michael Keen University of Tokyo

Alan Manning London School of Economics and Political Science

John Whalley University of Western Ontario

Marcus Miller University of Warwick

Clemens Fuest Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Alfons J. Weichenrieder Goethe University Frankfurt

Peter Birch Sørensen University of Copenhagen

External Links

Personal website of Ben Lockwood Google Scholar page

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