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D-Index
47
Citations
17697
World Ranking
1551
National Ranking
39

Loren Brandt 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 Loren Brandt sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 175 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Loren Brandt 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 Loren Brandt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Loren Brandt is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their academic work primarily falls within the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of 14 publications in this area. Their research further spans subfields including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Soil Science, Political Science and International Relations, and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The main topics of Loren Brandt's research include:

  • Global trade and economics
  • Land Rights and Reforms
  • China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Intellectual Property and Patents

Brandt has authored or co-authored several recent papers, including:

  • "Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China" (2025) published in The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Land Security and Mobility Frictions" (2024) published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • "Misallocation, Selection, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis With Panel Data From China" (2022) published in Econometrica
  • "Processing trade and costs of incomplete liberalization: The case of China" (2021) published in Journal of International Economics
  • "Market constraints, misallocation, and productivity in Vietnam agriculture" (2020) published in Food Policy

Brandt's book publication includes:

  • "China's Productivity Slowdown and Future Growth Potential" (2020), published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks

The scholar frequently publishes in venues such as Harvard Dataverse, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of International Economics, Econometrica, and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Their frequent co-authors are:

  • Feitao Jiang
  • Yao Luo
  • Yingjun Su
  • Diego Restuccia
  • Tasso Adamopoulos

Best Publications

  • Creative Accounting or Creative Destruction? Firm-level Productivity Growth in Chinese Manufacturing

    Loren Brandt;Johannes Van Biesebroeck;Yifan Zhang

  • Bank discrimination in transition economies: ideology, information, or incentives?

    Loren Brandt;Hongbin Li

  • WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms

    Loren Brandt;Johannes Van Biesebroeck;Luhang Wang;Yifan Zhang

  • Roads, railroads and decentralization of Chinese cities

    Nathaniel Baum-Snow;Loren Brandt;J. Vernon Henderson;Matthew Turner

  • Roads, Railroads, and Decentralization of Chinese Cities

    Nathaniel Baum-Snow;Loren Brandt;J. Vernon Henderson;Matthew A. Turner

  • Bank Discrimination in Transition Economies: Ideology, Information or Incentives?

    Loren Brandt;Loren Brandt;Hongbin Li

  • Factor market distortions across time, space and sectors in China☆

    Loren Brandt;Trevor Tombe;Xiaodong Zhu

  • Spatial price differences in China : estimates and implications

    Loren Brandt;Carsten A. Holz

  • Land Rights in Rural China: Facts, Fictions and Issues

    Loren Brandt;Jikun Huang;Guo Li;Scott Rozelle

  • The evolution of income inequality in rural China

    Dwayne Benjamin;Loren Brandt;John Giles

  • Redistribution in a Decentralized Economy: Growth and Inflation in China under Reform

    Loren Brandt;Xiaodong Zhu

  • From Divergence to Convergence: Reevaluating the History behind China's Economic Boom

    Loren Brandt;Debin Ma;Thomas G. Rawski

  • Tenure, land rights, and farmer investment incentives in China

    Guo Li;Scott Rozelle;Loren Brandt

  • Misallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel Data from China

    Tasso Adamopoulos;Loren Brandt;Jessica Leight;Diego Restuccia

  • Challenges of working with the Chinese NBS firm-level data

    Loren Brandt;Johannes Van Biesebroeck;Johannes Van Biesebroeck;Yifan Zhang

  • China's great economic transformation

    Loren Brandt;Thomas G. Rawski

  • Property rights, labour markets, and efficiency in a transition economy: the case of rural China

    Dwayne Benjamin;Loren Brandt

  • Accounting for China's growth

    Loren Brandt;Xiaodong Zhu

  • State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle

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  • The Fight for the Middle: Upgrading, Competition, and Industrial Development in China

    Loren Brandt;Eric Thun

  • China's Great Economic Transformation: Acknowledgments

    Loren Brandt;Thomas G. Rawski

  • Economic Growth, Poverty, and Household Welfare in Vietnam

    Paul Glewwe;Nisha Agrawal;David Dollar;John Luke Gallup

Frequent Co-Authors

John Giles
John Giles World Bank
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
J. Vernon Henderson
J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics and Political Science
Hongbin Li
Hongbin Li Stanford University
Kjetil Storesletten
Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota
Albert Francis Park
Albert Francis Park Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Joachim Wagner
Joachim Wagner Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Linxiu Zhang
Linxiu Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bob Baulch
Bob Baulch RMIT University

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