2026 James M. Malcomson: 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	34	3047	2764	356	328	78	7222

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D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Economics and Finance

3047

2764

356

328

7222

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

1134
Citations
Investments, Holdup, and the Form of Market Contracts.

W. Bentley MacLeod;James M. Malcomson

701
Citations
Work Incentives, Hierarchy, and Internal Labor Markets

James M. Malcomson

505
Citations
Contracts, hold-up and labor markets

J.M. Malcomson

411
Citations
Contracting for health services when patient demand does not reflect quality.

Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

391
Citations
Motivation and Markets

W Bentley MacLeod;James M Malcomson

349
Citations
Reputation and Hierarchy in Dynamic Models of Employment

W. Bentley MacLeod;James M. Malcomson

314
Citations
Government purchasing of health services

Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

273
Citations
Individual employment contracts

James M. Malcomson

271
Citations
CONTRACTING FOR HEALTH SERVICES WITH UNMONITORED QUALITY

Martin Chalkley;James M. Malcomson

247
Citations
Performance, Promotion, and the Peter Principle

James A. Fairburn;James M. Malcomson

228
Citations
Replacement and the rental value of capital equipment subject to obsolescence

James M Malcomson

221
Citations
UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE EFFICIENCY WAGE HYPOTHESIS

James M. Malcomson

178
Citations
The multiperiod principal-agent problem

James M. Malcomson;Frans Spinnewyn

166
Citations
General Training by Firms, Apprentice Contracts, and Public Policy.

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

147
Citations
Rank-Order Contracts for a Principal with Many Agents

James M. Malcomson

135
Citations
Trade Unions and Economic Efficiency

James M. Malcomson

113
Citations
Some Analytics of the Laffer Curve.

James M. Malcomson

111
Citations
Tax push inflation in a unionized labour market

James M. Malcomson;Nicola Sartor

99
Citations
Motivation and markets

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

73
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Bentley MacLeod Columbia University

Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science

External Links

Personal website of James M. Malcomson Google Scholar page

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