2026 Eduardo Engel: 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	41	2163	1954	2	2	141	9242

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Chile Leader Award

Overview

Eduardo Engel is affiliated with the University of Chile in Chile and conducts research primarily in the field of Business, Management and Accounting.

They have contributed extensively to subfields including:

Strategy and Management
Economics and Econometrics
Management Science and Operations Research
Insect Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Their work addresses topics such as:

Public-Private Partnership Projects
Public Procurement and Policy
Auction Theory and Applications
Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
Mosquito-borne diseases and control
Corruption and Economic Development
Regulation and Compliance Studies

Eduardo Engel's recent papers include:

"The Ways of Corruption in Infrastructure: Lessons from the Odebrecht Case," 2021, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
"Private Finance of Public Infrastructure," 2022, Annual Review of Financial Economics
"Pattern-based prediction of population outbreaks," 2023, Ecological Informatics
"The company you keep: Renegotiations and adverse selection in transportation infrastructure," 2024, Economics of Transportation
"Audit threats and year-end spending by government agencies: experimental evidence from Chile," 2023, Journal of Public Procurement

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Annual Review of Financial Economics
Ecological Informatics

Eduardo Engel has also published books through various institutions, including:

World Bank policy research working paper, with "Managing the Fiscal Risks Wrought by Ppps: A Simple Framework and Some Lessons from Chile" (2022)
Inter-American Development Bank eBooks, with "Contratos por valor presente de los ingresos y APPs: lecciones de la experiencia chilena" (2021)
CAF eBooks, with "El desafio del desarrollo en America Latina. Politicas para una region mas productiva, integrada e inclusiva" (2020)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Alexander Galetovic
Ronald Fischer
Gabriel Rodrigues Palma
Wesley Augusto Conde Godoy
Douglas Lau

Best Publications

Aggregate Employment Dynamics: Building From Microeconomic Evidence

Ricardo J Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;John Haltiwanger

951
Citations
Explaining investment dynamics in U.S. manufacturing: a generalized (S; s) approach

Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M. R. A. Engel

826
Citations
Plant-Level Adjustment and Aggregate Investment Dynamics

Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;John C. Haltiwanger;Michael Woodford

693
Citations
THE BASIC PUBLIC FINANCE OF PUBLIC–PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;Ronald D. Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

539
Citations
Least-present-value-of-revenue auctions and highway franchising

Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;Ronald D. Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

432
Citations
Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility

Ricardo J. Caballero;Kevin N. Cowan;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Alejandro Micco

394
Citations
Taxes and income distribution in Chile: some unpleasant redistributive arithmetic

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Alexander Galetovic;Claudio E. Raddatz

353
Citations
Microeconomic Adjustment Hazards and Aggregate Dynamics

Ricardo J Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

323
Citations
Highway Franchising: Pitfalls and Opportunities

Eduardo Engel;Ronald Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

277
Citations
The Economics of Public-Private Partnerships: A Basic Guide

Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;Ronald David Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

242
Citations
Price Stickiness in Ss Models: New Interpretations of Old Results

Ricardo J. Caballero;Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

222
Citations
Optimal fiscal strategy for oil exporting countries

Eduardo Engel;Rodrigo O. Valdés

219
Citations
Aggregate Implications of Lumpy Investment: New Evidence and a DSGE Model †

Ruediger Bachmann;Ricardo J Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

212
Citations
Dynamic (S, s) economies

Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M. R. A. Engel

197
Citations
Soft Budgets and Renegotiations in Public-Private Partnerships

Eduardo Engel;Ronald Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

187
Citations
The economics of infrastructure finance: Public-Private Partnerships versus public provision

Eduardo Engel;Ronald Fischer;Alexander Galetovic

177
Citations
Privatizing Highways in Latin America: Fixing What Went Wrong

Eduardo Engel;Ronald D. Fischer;P Alexander Galetovic

173
Citations
Microeconomic rigidities and aggregate price dynamics

Ricardo J. Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

144
Citations
Understanding tax evasion dynamics

Eduardo M.R.A. Engel;James R Hines

135
Citations
Price Rigidities. Asymmetries and Output Fluctuations

Ricardo J Caballero;Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

116
Citations
Price Stickiness in SS Models: New Interpretations of Old Results

Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;Eduardo M. R. A. Engel;Ricardo J. Caballero;Ricardo J. Caballero

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ricardo J. Caballero MIT

Alejandro Micco University of Chile

John Haltiwanger University of Maryland, College Park

James R. Hines University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Robert E. Hall Hoover Institution

Eduardo Levy Yeyati Torcuato di Tella University

Laura Alfaro Harvard University

Nora Lustig Tulane University

Marcelo Olarreaga University of Geneva

External Links

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