SSRN - SSRN Top 10,000 Papers

		Last 12 Months	All Time		Authors
Rank	Paper	Total New Downloads	Total # of Downloads	Total # of Citations	# of Authors
1	Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure Michael C. Jensen (Deceased) and William H. Meckling Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Simon School, University of Rochester (Deceased) Date Posted: 19 Jul 1998Last Revised: 17 Jan 2011	12,824	167,600	9,473	2
2	Law and Finance Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer and Robert W. Vishny Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business, SKEMA Business School, Harvard University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business Date Posted: 27 Sep 1996Last Revised: 22 Dec 2022	367	3,012	3,931	4
3	Sample Selection Bias as a Specification Error (with an Application to the Estimation of Labor Supply Functions) James J. Heckman University of Chicago - Department of Economics Date Posted: 29 Jun 2004Last Revised: 23 Dec 2022	59	457	3,707	1
4	The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity Marc J. Melitz and Marc J. Melitz Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Harvard University - Department of Economics Date Posted: 25 Jun 2002	1	30	3,514	1
4	The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity Marc J. Melitz and Marc J. Melitz Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Harvard University - Department of Economics Date Posted: 04 Apr 2002Last Revised: 10 Oct 2022	19	232	3,514	1
6	Endogenous Technological Change Paul M. Romer National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Date Posted: 04 Dec 2000Last Revised: 10 Oct 2022	125	746	2,991	1
7	Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches Mitchell A. Petersen Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Date Posted: 05 Feb 2005	475	4,170	2,962	1
7	Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets: Comparing Approaches Mitchell A. Petersen Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management Date Posted: 14 Aug 2012Last Revised: 29 Oct 2022	33	340	2,962	1
9	How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates? Marianne Bertrand, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago Date Posted: 23 Mar 2002Last Revised: 15 Apr 2024	239	639	2,868	3
9	How Much Should We Trust Differences-in-Differences Estimates? Marianne Bertrand, Esther Duflo and Sendhil Mullainathan University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago Date Posted: 30 Oct 2001	29	1,216	2,868	3