2026 Ufuk Akcigit: 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	1173	1043	710	615	167	14253

Research.com Recognitions

The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics
The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi Economics

Overview

Ufuk Akcigit is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily lies in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on Economics and Econometrics as a subfield. Other areas of study include Accounting, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation, and General Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

Their main topics of work cover several aspects of economic and innovation dynamics:

Firm Innovation and Growth
Economic Growth and Productivity
Innovation Policy and R&D
Corporate Finance and Governance
Private Equity and Venture Capital
Labor Market Dynamics and Wage Inequality
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Akcigit has contributed research articles to frequent publication venues, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Harvard Dataverse
American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
Econometrica
The Review of Economic Studies

Notable recent papers authored by Akcigit include:

"Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory," 2020, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
"Connecting to Power: Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics," 2023, Econometrica
"Taxation and Innovation in the Twentieth Century," 2021, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
"Back to Basics: Basic Research Spillovers, Innovation Policy, and Growth," 2020, The Review of Economic Studies
"Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries," 2020, American Economic Review

Frequent collaborators include:

Harun Alp
Nicolas Serrano-Velarde
Sina T. Ates
Marta Prato
Otto Toivanen

Awards received include recognition from The Science Academy Society of Turkey - Bilim Akademisi in the field of Economics.

Best Publications

Transition to Clean Technology

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;Douglas Hanley;William Robert Kerr

1141
Citations
Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations

Ufuk Akcigit;William R. Kerr

899
Citations
Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;Nicholas Bloom;William Robert Kerr

841
Citations
Innovation and Top Income Inequality

Philippe Aghion;Ufuk Akcigit;Antonin Bergeaud;Richard Blundell

757
Citations
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;William Robert Kerr

712
Citations
Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Ufuk Akcigit;Salomé Baslandze;Stefanie Stantcheva

688
Citations
Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

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553
Citations
What Do We Learn From Schumpeterian Growth Theory

Philippe Aghion;Ufuk Akcigit;Peter Howitt

390
Citations
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS POLICY, COMPETITION AND INNOVATION

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit

331
Citations
BACK TO BASICS: BASIC RESEARCH SPILLOVERS, INNOVATION POLICY AND GROWTH

Ufuk Akcigit;Douglas Hanley;Nicolas Serrano-Velarde

322
Citations
Taxation, corruption, and growth

Philippe Aghion;Ufuk Akcigit;Julia Cage;William Robert Kerr

320
Citations
Innovation network

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;William R. Kerr

284
Citations
Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory

Ufuk Akcigit;Sina T Ates

266
Citations
Networks and the macroeconomy: an empirical exploration

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;William R. Kerr

255
Citations
Buy, Keep or Sell: Economic Growth and the Market for Ideas

Ufuk Akcigit;Murat Alp Celik;Jeremy Greenwood

240
Citations
Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity

Ufuk Akcigit;John Grigsby;Tom Nicholas

226
Citations
The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age

Ufuk Akcigit;John Grigsby;Tom Nicholas

224
Citations
Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation: Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Ufuk Akcigit;Harun Alp;Michael Peters

215
Citations
What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory

Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Philippe Aghion;Ufuk Akcigit;Ufuk Akcigit;Ufuk Akcigit;Peter Howitt;Peter Howitt

199
Citations
Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity

Ufuk Akcigit;John Grigsby;Tom Nicholas

191
Citations
Young, Restless and Creative: Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;Murat Alp Celik

161
Citations
Creative Destruction and Subjective Well-Being

Philippe Aghion;Ufuk Akcigit;Angus Deaton;Alexandra Roulet

126
Citations
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Daron Acemoglu;Ufuk Akcigit;Ufuk Akcigit;Ufuk Akcigit;William R. Kerr

98
Citations
Economic Growth: The Past, the Present, and the Future

Ufuk Akcigit

24
Citations
Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration

Ufuk Akcigit;William Kerr;K. Daron Acemoglu

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Daron Acemoglu MIT

William R. Kerr Harvard University

Peter Howitt Brown University

Ari Hyytinen Hanken School of Economics

Angus Deaton Princeton University

Josh Lerner Harvard University

Jeremy Greenwood University of Pennsylvania

Nicholas Bloom Stanford University

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde University of Pennsylvania

External Links

Personal website of Ufuk Akcigit Google Scholar page

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