2026 Pierre Mohnen: 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	53	1178	1048	35	32	303	13659

Overview

Pierre Mohnen is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with significant contributions to Social Sciences.

Their work focuses on several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Strategy and Management, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics Pierre Mohnen explores include:

Firm Innovation and Growth
Global trade and economics
Economic Growth and Productivity
Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
International Business and FDI
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Agricultural risk and resilience

Several recent publications reflect these interests:

"Product innovation and informal market competition in sub-Saharan Africa" (2020, Journal of Evolutionary Economics)
"R&D, innovation and firm survival in Chinese manufacturing, 2000-2006" (2022, Eurasian Economic Review)
"The Impact of China-Africa Trade on the Productivity of African Firms: Evidence from Ghana" (2021, European Journal of Development Research)
"Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
"Is There Job Polarization in Developing Economies? A Review and Outlook" (2023, The World Bank Research Observer)

Pierre Mohnen has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

Halefom Yigzaw Nigus
Eleonora Nillesen
Antonio Martins-Neto
Nanditha Mathew
Tania Treibich

Their research has been published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Eurasian Economic Review
Journal of Evolutionary Economics
European Journal of Development Research
The World Bank Research Observer

Best Publications

Measuring the Returns to R&D

Bronwyn H. Hall;Bronwyn H. Hall;Jacques Mairesse;Jacques Mairesse;Pierre Mohnen;Pierre Mohnen

1323
Citations
Complementarities in Innovation Policy

Pierre Mohnen;Lars-Hendrick Röller

802
Citations
Using innovation surveys for econometric analysis

Jacques Mairesse;Jacques Mairesse;Pierre Mohnen;Pierre Mohnen

784
Citations
Accounting for Innovation and Measuring Innovativeness: An Illustrative Framework and an Application

Jacques Mairesse;Pierre Mohnen

557
Citations
What type of enterprise forges close links with universities and government labs? Evidence from CIS 2

Pierre Mohnen;Cathy Hoareau

504
Citations
Innovation and productivity: an update

Pierre Mohnen;Bronwyn H. Hall

496
Citations
Innovation and Productivity: An Update

Pierre Mohnen;Bronwyn H. Hall;Bronwyn H. Hall

496
Citations
The Importance of R&D for Innovation: A Reassessment Using French Survey Data

Jacques Mairesse;Pierre Mohnen

433
Citations
PERSISTENCE OF INNOVATION IN DUTCH MANUFACTURING: IS IT SPURIOUS?*

Wladimir Raymond;Pierre A. Mohnen;Franz Palm;Sybrand Schim van der Loeff

413
Citations
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review

Giacomo Zanello;Xiaolan Fu;Pierre Mohnen;Marc Ventresca

349
Citations
Chapter 24 – Measuring the Returns to R&D

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332
Citations
Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis

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324
Citations
Financial Constraints and Other Obstacles: are they a Threat to Innovation Activity?

Pierre Mohnen;Franz Palm;Sybrand Schim van der Loeff;Amaresh Tiwari

310
Citations
Are firms that received R&D subsidies more innovative?

Charles Bérubé;Pierre Mohnen

296
Citations
Revisiting the Porter hypothesis: An empirical analysis of Green innovation for the Netherlands

George van Leeuwen;Pierre Mohnen

281
Citations
How effective are level-based R&D tax credits? Evidence from the Netherlands

Boris Lokshin;Pierre Mohnen

279
Citations
Innovation and Firm Performance

Alfred Kleinknecht;Pierre Mohnen

247
Citations
Innovativity: A comparison across seven European countries

Pierre Mohnen;Jacques Mairesse;Marcel J. Dagenais

246
Citations
Innovation and Firm Performance. Econometric Explorations of Survey Data

Pierre Mohnen;A. Kleinknecht

230
Citations
International R&D spillovers between U.S. and Japanese R&D intensive sectors

Jeffrey Ian Bernstein;Pierre A. Mohnen

217
Citations
Product, process and organizational innovation: drivers, complementarity and productivity effects

Michael Polder;George Van Leeuwen;Pierre Mohnen;Wladimir Raymond

216
Citations
Innovation and productivity in formal and informal firms in Ghana

Xiaolan Fu;Pierre Mohnen;Giacomo Zanello

205
Citations
Is inter-firm labor mobility a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from a linked employer–employee panel

Mika Maliranta;Pierre Mohnen;Petri Rouvinen

188
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Mairesse Maastricht University

Lionel Fontagné Banque de France

Bronwyn H. Hall University of California, Berkeley

M. Ishaq Nadiri New York University

Lars-Hendrik Röller European School of Management and Technology

Guntram B. Wolff Université Libre de Bruxelles

Ingmar R. Prucha University of Maryland, College Park

Xiaolan Fu University of Oxford

Alfred Kleinknecht Delft University of Technology

Armando Barrientos University of Manchester

External Links

Personal website of Pierre Mohnen

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