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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
98
Citations
74328
World Ranking
115
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Paul Collier is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Physiology, Safety Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's recent publications encompass a range of topics such as spaceflight effects on biology, experimental behavioral economics studies, social and cultural dynamics, the wine industry and tourism, housing, finance and neoliberalism, economic theories and models, and banking stability, regulation, and efficiency.

Paul Collier's published papers include the following:

  • Narratives as a coordinating device for reversing regional disequilibrium, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Reforming the UK financial system to promote regional development in post-COVID Britain, 2020, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how it can be fixed, 2021, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Achieving Socio-Economic Convergence in Europe, 2020, Intereconomics
  • Proposal for the ILC Preparatory Laboratory (Pre-lab), 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent coauthors in Paul Collier's work include:

  • Colin Mayer
  • Diane Coyle
  • Martin Wolf
  • Bader Shirah
  • Eliah Overbey

Prominent publication venues for this scientist are:

  • Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Intereconomics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
  • Apollo (University of Cambridge)

Best Publications

  • Greed and Grievance in Civil War

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler

  • Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy

    Paul Collier;V. L. Elliott;Håvard Hegre;Anke Hoeffler

  • On economic causes of civil war

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler

  • The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    Paul Collier

  • Explaining African Economic Performance

    Paul Collier;Jan Willem Gunning

  • Aid allocation and poverty reduction

    Paul Collier;David Dollar

  • Beyond Greed and Grievance: Feasibility and Civil War

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler;Dominic Rohner

  • On the Duration of Civil War

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler;Måns Söderbom

  • On the economic consequences of civil war

    Paul Collier

  • On the incidence of civil war in Africa

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler

  • Resource Rents, Governance, and Conflict

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler

  • African agriculture in 50 years: smallholders in a rapidly changing world?

    Paul Collier;Stefan Dercon

  • Aid, policy and growth in post-conflict societies

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler

  • The Bottom Billion

    Paul Collier

  • Post-conflict risks

    Paul Collier;Anke Hoeffler;Måns Söderbom

  • Commodity Prices, Growth, and the Natural Resource Curse: Reconciling a Conundrum

    Paul Collier;Benedikt Goderis

  • Can the World Cut Poverty in Half? How Policy Reform and Effective Aid Can Meet International Development Goals

    Paul Collier;David Dollar

  • Why Has Africa Grown Slowly

    Paul Collier;Jan Willem Gunning

  • Natural resources and violent conflict - options and actions

    Ian Bannon;Paul Collier

  • Climate change and Africa

    Paul Collier;Gordon Conway;Tony Venables

  • Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and their Implications for Policy

    Paul Collier

  • Aid Allocation and Poverty Reduction

    David Dollar;Paul Collier

  • Explaining African Economic Performance

    J.W. Gunning;P. Collier

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Willem Gunning
Jan Willem Gunning Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anke Hoeffler
Anke Hoeffler University of Konstanz
Anthony J. Venables
Anthony J. Venables University of Manchester
Måns Söderbom
Måns Söderbom University of Gothenburg
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
Arne Bigsten
Arne Bigsten University of Gothenburg
Stewart F. Parker
Stewart F. Parker Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Francis Teal
Francis Teal University of Oxford
Marcel Fafchamps
Marcel Fafchamps Stanford University
Russell F. Howe
Russell F. Howe University of Aberdeen

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