2026 Chad Syverson: 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	48	1485	1325	897	780	150	18536

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Chad Syverson is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and focuses primarily on research within the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their work spans 52 publications covering a variety of subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Marketing, Strategy and Management, and Modeling and Simulation.

The main topics addressed in their research include Firm Innovation and Growth, Economic Growth and Productivity, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, Global Trade and Economics, Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality, as well as impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in both economic and epidemiological contexts.

Chad Syverson has contributed to numerous papers, with recent publications including:

Fear, lockdown, and diversion: Comparing drivers of pandemic economic decline 2020, published in 2020 in the Journal of Public Economics
The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies, published in 2020 in the American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization, published in 2021 in the American Economic Review
COVID-19 Lockdown Policies at the State and Local Level, published in 2020 in the SSRN Electronic Journal
Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020, published in 2020 in the SSRN Electronic Journal

The scientist's frequent co-authors include Austan Goolsbee, Enghin Atalay, Alı Hortaçsu, Mustafa Runyun, and Mehmet Fatih Ulu. The frequency of collaboration ranges from six to eight joint publications with these scholars.

Regular publication venues for Syverson's work include the SSRN Electronic Journal, where 24 publications appear, as well as the Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, and American Economic Review.

Chad Syverson was recognized as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2020. This accolade is indicative of their involvement and standing within the field.

Best Publications

Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency : Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Lucia Foster;John Haltiwanger;Chad Syverson

3028
Citations
What Determines Productivity

Chad Syverson

3007
Citations
Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example

Chad Syverson

1372
Citations
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics

Erik Brynjolfsson;Daniel Rock;Chad Syverson

1176
Citations
MARKET DISTORTIONS WHEN AGENTS ARE BETTER INFORMED: THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

Steven D. Levitt;Chad Syverson

1000
Citations
Product Differentiation, Search Costs, and Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: A Case Study of S&P 500 Index Funds

Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

919
Citations
Product Substitutability and Productivity Dispersion

Chad Syverson

903
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
Challenges to Mismeasurement Explanations for the U.S. Productivity Slowdown

Chad Syverson

549
Citations
The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson;Daniel Rock;Chad Syverson

547
Citations
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox: A Clash of Expectations and Statistics

Erik Brynjolfsson;Daniel Rock;Chad Syverson

526
Citations
The Slow Growth of New Plants: Learning about Demand?

Lucia Foster;John C Haltiwanger;Chad Syverson

500
Citations
Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortacsu;Chad Syverson

384
Citations
The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Michael Greenstone;John A. List;Chad Syverson

356
Citations
Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices

Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

347
Citations
The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing

Michael Greenstone;Michael Greenstone;John A. List;John A. List;John A. List;Chad Syverson;Chad Syverson

330
Citations
Macroeconomics and Market Power: Context, Implications, and Open Questions

Chad Syverson

329
Citations
Health Care Exceptionalism? Performance and Allocation in the US Health Care Sector

Amitabh Chandra;Amy Finkelstein;Adam Sacarny;Chad Syverson

328
Citations
Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

Steven D. Levitt;John A. List;Chad Syverson

305
Citations
Artificial Intelligence and the Modern Productivity Paradox

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305
Citations
E‐Commerce and the Market Structure of Retail Industries*

Maris Goldmanis;Ali Hortacsu;Chad Syverson;Onsel Emre

285
Citations
Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?

Lucia Foster;John Haltiwanger;John Haltiwanger;Chad Syverson;Chad Syverson

283
Citations
Network structure of production

Enghin Atalay;Ali Hortaçsu;James Roberts;Chad Syverson

282
Citations
Vertical Integration and Input Flows

Enghin Atalay;Ali Hortaçsu;Chad Syverson

272
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ali Hortacsu University of Chicago

Austan Goolsbee University of Chicago

Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago

Amitabh Chandra Harvard University

John A. List University of Chicago

John Haltiwanger University of Maryland, College Park

Amy Finkelstein MIT

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Columbia University

Erik Brynjolfsson Stanford University

Justine S. Hastings University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Chad Syverson Google Scholar page

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