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Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

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Best Scientists

D-Index
165
Citations
165351
World Ranking
1018
National Ranking
600

Economics and Finance

D-Index
172
Citations
189093
World Ranking
4
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - William H. Riker Prize for Political Science For advancing the scientific study of politics by systematically linking formal and empirical inquiry into the enduring features of legal and representative institutions.
  • 2017 - Andrew Carnegie Fellow
  • 2016 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Heinz I. Eulau Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2007 - Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)
  • 2005 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 2005 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Daron Acemoglu is affiliated with MIT in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Social Sciences. Their research spans various subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Management Science and Operations Research, and Safety Research.

The main topics in Acemoglu's scholarly work feature Economic Growth and Productivity, Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality, Firm Innovation and Growth, Culture, Economy, and Development Studies, Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Employment and Welfare Studies, and Digital Economy and Work Transformation.

Acemoglu has authored numerous research papers, with recent publications including:

  • Artificial Intelligence and Jobs: Evidence from Online Vacancies, 2022, Journal of Labor Economics
  • Demographics and Automation, 2021, The Review of Economic Studies
  • Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality, 2022, Econometrica
  • Competing with Robots: Firm-Level Evidence from France, 2020, AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • Endogenous Production Networks, 2020, Econometrica

Frequent co-authors in their research include Asuman Ozdaglar, Pascual Restrepo, Cevat Giray Aksoy, James A. Robinson, and Carlos Molina.

Publication venues prominently featuring Acemoglu's work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Review of Economic Studies

Acemoglu has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by eBooks titled : released in 2020.

The scientist has received several awards and honors, such as:

  • William H. Riker Prize for Political Science (2017) for linking formal and empirical inquiry into legal and representative institutions
  • Andrew Carnegie Fellow (2017)
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2016)
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
  • Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) (2007)
  • Heinz I. Eulau Award from APSA (2007)
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (2005)
  • John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (2005)
  • Membership in The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi for Economics
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Best Publications

  • The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

    Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;James A. Robinson

  • Skills, Tasks and Technologies: Implications for Employment and Earnings

    Daron Acemoglu;David Autor

  • Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market

    Daron Acemoglu

  • Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets

    Daron Acemoglu;Pascual Restrepo

  • Introduction to economic growth

    Daron Acemoglu

  • The Environment and Directed Technical Change

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Leonardo Bursztyn;David Hemous

  • Why do firms train? : theory and evidence

    Daron K. Acemoglu;Jörn-Steffen Pischke

  • Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    Daron Acemoglu;James A. Robinson

  • Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality

    Daron Acemoglu

  • The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

    Daron Acemoglu;Vasco M. Carvalho;Asuman E. Ozdaglar;Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

  • The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment

    Daron Acemoglu;Pascual Restrepo

  • Directed Technical Change

    Daron Acemoglu

  • Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Systemic risk and stability in financial networks

    Daron Acemoglu;Asuman Ozdaglar;Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi

  • Introduction to modern economic growth

    Daron Acemoglu

  • Institutions as the fundamental cause of Long-Run growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;James Arthur Robinson

  • REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: GEOGRAPHY AND INSTITUTIONS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD INCOME DISTRIBUTION*

    Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;James A. Robinson

  • Was prometheus unbound by chance? Risk diversification and growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu;James A. Robinson

  • The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

    Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;James Robinson

  • The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

    Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;Simon Johnson;James A. Robinson;James A. Robinson;James A. Robinson

  • Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

    Daron Acemoglu;Simon Johnson;James Robinson

  • Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Our Argument

    Daron Acemoglu;James A. Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Robinson
James A. Robinson University of Chicago
Michael Woodford
Michael Woodford Columbia University
Konstantin Sonin
Konstantin Sonin University of Chicago
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University
Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science
Kenneth Rogoff
Kenneth Rogoff Harvard University
Ufuk Akcigit
Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago

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