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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
142
Citations
154812
World Ranking
10
National Ranking
2

Philippe Aghion 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 Philippe Aghion sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 616 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philippe Aghion 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 Philippe Aghion sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 142 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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

  • 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
  • 2019 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2017 - Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association
  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2016 - Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2001 - Yrjö Jahnsson Award
  • 1993 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Philippe Aghion is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on economics, econometrics, and finance, with significant contributions in the subfields of economics and econometrics, general economics, strategy and management, modeling and simulation, and accounting.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Firm Innovation and Growth
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
  • Global Trade and Economics
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth

Philippe Aghion has published extensively in several academic venues. The venues where they have most frequently published include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • L'annuaire du Collège de France
  • The Lancet
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • "A Theory of Falling Growth and Rising Rents," 2023, The Review of Economic Studies
  • "Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices: Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?," 2023, American Economic Review Insights
  • "The effect of COVID certificates on vaccine uptake, health outcomes, and the economy," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times," 2020, American Economic Journal Applied Economics
  • "SARS-CoV-2 elimination, not mitigation, creates best outcomes for health, the economy, and civil liberties," 2021, The Lancet

Among book publications, Philippe Aghion has titles published by Harvard University Press and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, including:

  • The Power of Creative Destruction, 2021 (Harvard University Press)
  • The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations, 2021 (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Simon Bunel
  • Céline Antonin
  • Antonin Bergeaud
  • Miquel Oliu-Barton
  • Patrick Artus

Philippe Aghion has received multiple awards, such as:

  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2019
  • Foreign Honorary Member, the American Economic Association, 2017
  • Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research, Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum, 2016
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2016
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
  • Yrjö Jahnsson Award, 2001
  • Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1993

Best Publications

  • A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

    Philippe Aghion;Peter Howitt

  • A Model of Growth Through Creative Destruction

    Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Peter Howitt;Peter Howitt

  • A MODEL OF GROWTH THROUGH CREATIVE DESTRUCTION

    Philippe Aghion;Peter Howitt

  • Endogenous growth theory

    P. Aghion;P. Howitt

  • Competition and Innovation: an Inverted-U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith

  • Formal and Real Authority in Organizations

    Philippe Aghion;Jean Marcal Pierre Tirole

  • An incomplete contracts approach to financial contracting

    Philippe Aghion;Patrick Bolton

  • The Environment and Directed Technical Change

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Leonardo Bursztyn;David Hemous

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith

  • Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories

    Philippe Aghion;Eve Caroli;Cecilia García-Peñalosa

  • Distance to Frontier, Selection, and Economic Growth

    Daron Acemoglu;Philippe Aghion;Fabrizio Zilibotti

  • The Economics of Growth

    Philippe Aghion;Peter W. Howitt

  • A Theory of Trickle-Down Growth and Development

    Philippe Aghion;Patrick Bolton

  • Handbook of Economic Growth

    Philippe Aghion;Steven N. Durlauf

  • Innovation and Institutional Ownership

    Philippe Aghion;John Van Reenen;Luigi Zingales

  • Growth, distance to frontier and composition of human capital

    Jérôme Vandenbussche;Philippe Aghion;Costas Meghir

  • The Management of Innovation

    Philippe Aghion;Jean Tirole

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted-U Relationship*

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  • The Effect of Financial Development on Convergence: Theory and Evidence

    Philippe Aghion;Peter Howitt;David Mayer-Foulkes

  • Competition, Imitation and Growth with Step-by-Step Innovation

    Philippe Aghion;Christopher Harris;Peter Howitt;John Vickers

  • Exchange Rate Volatility and Productivity Growth: The Role of Financial Development

    Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Bacchetta;Philippe Bacchetta;Philippe Bacchetta;Romain Ranciere;Romain Ranciere;Kenneth S. Rogoff;Kenneth S. Rogoff

  • THE EFFECTS OF ENTRY ON INCUMBENT INNOVATION AND PRODUCTIVITY

    Philippe Aghion;Richard Blundell;Rachel Griffith;Peter Howitt

  • Contracts as a barrier to entry

    P. Aghion;P. Bolton

  • An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report

    Martin Hellwig;André Sapir;Philippe Aghion;Giuseppe Bertola

  • Competition and Innovation: An Inverted U Relationship

    Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Nicholas Bloom;Nicholas Bloom;Richard W. Blundell;Rachel Griffith;Rachel Griffith

  • Innovation and institutional ownership

    Philippe Aghion;John van Reenen;Luigi Zingales

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Howitt
Peter Howitt Brown University
Mathias Dewatripont
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ufuk Akcigit
Ufuk Akcigit University of Chicago
Philippe Bacchetta
Philippe Bacchetta University of Lausanne
Patrick Bolton
Patrick Bolton Imperial College London
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
André Sapir
André Sapir Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Fabrizio Zilibotti Yale University

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