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D-Index
34
Citations
7222
World Ranking
3047
National Ranking
355

James M. Malcomson publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James M. Malcomson sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 78 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

James M. Malcomson D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James M. Malcomson sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

James M. Malcomson is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields including Social Sciences, Computer Science, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their research focuses on several main topics:

  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Capital Investment and Risk Analysis
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the European Economic Association
  • Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE
  • Games and Economic Behavior

Recent papers authored or coauthored by James M. Malcomson are:

  • Uncertainty, Investment and Productivity with Relational Contracts (2023, Journal of the European Economic Association)
  • Grouping Agents with Persistent Types (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Grouping agents with persistent types (2025, Games and Economic Behavior)

A noted frequent coauthor is W. Bentley MacLeod, with collaborations documented in at least two papers.

James M. Malcomson was recognized with the Fellows of the Econometric Society award in 2005.

Best Publications

  • IMPLICIT CONTRACTS, INCENTIVE COMPATIBILITY, AND INVOLUNTARY UNEMPLOYMENT

    W. Bentley MacLeod;James M. Malcomson

  • Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts.

    W. Bentley MacLeod;James M. Malcomson

  • Work Incentives, Hierarchy, and Internal Labor Markets

    James M. Malcomson

  • Contracts, hold-up and labor markets

    J.M. Malcomson

  • Contracting for health services when patient demand does not reflect quality.

    Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

  • Motivation and Markets

    W Bentley MacLeod;James M Malcomson

  • Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment

    W. Bentley MacLeod;James M. Malcomson

  • Government purchasing of health services

    Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

  • Individual employment contracts

    James M. Malcomson

  • CONTRACTING FOR HEALTH SERVICES WITH UNMONITORED QUALITY

    Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

  • Performance, Promotion, and the Peter Principle

    James A. Fairburn;James M. Malcomson

  • Replacement and the rental value of capital equipment subject to obsolescence

    James M Malcomson

  • UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE EFFICIENCY WAGE HYPOTHESIS

    James M. Malcomson

  • The multiperiod principal-agent problem

    James M. Malcomson;Frans Spinnewyn

  • General Training by Firms, Apprentice Contracts, and Public Policy.

    James M. Malcomson;James W. Maw;Barry McCormick

  • Rank-Order Contracts for a Principal with Many Agents

    James M. Malcomson

  • Trade Unions and Economic Efficiency

    James M. Malcomson

  • Some Analytics of the Laffer Curve.

    James M. Malcomson

  • Tax push inflation in a unionized labour market

    James M. Malcomson;Nicola Sartor

  • Motivation and markets

    W.B. MacLeod;W.B. MacLeod;W.B. MacLeod;J.M. Malcomson;J.M. Malcomson

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Bentley MacLeod
W. Bentley MacLeod Columbia University
Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science

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