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title: "Fiscal policy research: papers, trends and top journals"
description: "From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “fiscal policy” appeared in 1,104 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (890), finance (162) and management (19)."
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# Papers on “fiscal policy”

Research on “fiscal policy” in the 480 tracked journals: papers per year and category, the journals, institutions and countries publishing it, the keywords studied with it and its most-cited papers. It is not among the most frequent keywords of the last 30 days, so this page has no list of its latest papers.

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/keywords.md

## Key findings

- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), the keyword “fiscal policy” appeared in 1,104 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (890), finance (162) and management (19).
- 118 of them were published in 2025, against 82 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were International Monetary Fund (10), Centre for Economic Policy Research (9) and European Central Bank (9).
- The journals publishing most of them were Economic Modelling (24), Resources Policy (23) and Economic Analysis and Policy (23).
- The most-cited of them is “An augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds test for cointegration” (Economic Modelling, 2018), with 423 citations.

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 66 | 73 | 79 | 102 | 89 | 93 | 105 | 117 | 88 | 78 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 13 | 11 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 22 | 27 | 22 | 19 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [AI](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/ai.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Tourism and Hospitality](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/tourism-and-hospitality.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 82 | 87 | 86 | 126 | 107 | 114 | 132 | 149 | 118 | 103 |

## Where the papers come from

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 24 |
| 2 | [Resources Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/resources-policy.md) | 23 |
| 3 | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 23 |
| 4 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 21 |
| 5 | [International Review of Economics & Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/international-review-of-economics-finance.md) | 17 |
| 6 | [Finance research letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/finance-research-letters.md) | 17 |
| 7 | [Journal of Macroeconomics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-macroeconomics.md) | 16 |
| 8 | [Journal of International Money and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-international-money-and-finance.md) | 16 |
| 9 | [Energy Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/energy-economics.md) | 13 |
| 10 | [Economic Change and Restructuring](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-change-and-restructuring.md) | 13 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [International Monetary Fund](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/international-monetary-fund.md) | 10 |
| 2 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 9 |
| 3 | European Central Bank | 9 |
| 4 | SGH Warsaw School of Economics | 8 |
| 5 | [University of Lisbon](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/university-of-lisbon.md) | 8 |
| 6 | [Central University of Finance and Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/central-university-of-finance-and-economics.md) | 7 |
| 7 | [Sapienza University of Rome](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/sapienza-university-of-rome.md) | 7 |
| 8 | Bank of Italy | 6 |
| 9 | ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão | 6 |
| 10 | Université d'Orléans | 6 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Country | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | United States | 89 |
| 2 | China | 88 |
| 3 | Italy | 47 |
| 4 | United Kingdom | 45 |
| 5 | Germany | 42 |
| 6 | France | 35 |
| 7 | Spain | 33 |
| 8 | India | 23 |
| 9 | Austria | 17 |
| 10 | South Korea | 16 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [monetary policy](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/monetary-policy.md) | 150 |
| 2 | [public debt](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/public-debt.md) | 82 |
| 3 | government spending | 60 |
| 4 | [inflation](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/inflation.md) | 52 |
| 5 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 44 |
| 6 | [economic growth](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/economic-growth.md) | 42 |
| 7 | [China](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/china.md) | 25 |
| 8 | euro area | 23 |
| 9 | public investment | 23 |

## Most-cited papers

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 423 | 4.4 | [An augmented autoregressive distributed lag bounds test for cointegration](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2018.11.001) | [Economic Modelling](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-modelling.md) | 2018-11-10 | Chung Yan Sam, Robert F. McNown, Soo Khoon Goh |
| 2 | 423 | 6.2 | [The economics of COVID-19 pandemic: A survey](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2021.02.012) | [Economic Analysis and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economic-analysis-and-policy.md) | 2021-02-25 | Rakesh Padhan, K.P. Prabheesh |
| 3 | 348 | 4.2 | [Estimating the COVID-19 Cash Crunch: Global Evidence and Policy](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2020.106741) | [Journal of Accounting and Public Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-accounting-and-public-policy.md) | 2020-01-01 | Antonio De Vito, Juan-Pedro Gómez |
| 4 | 339 | 4.5 | [The Economic Effects of COVID-19 Containment Measures](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-021-09638-2) | [Open Economies Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/open-economies-review.md) | 2020-08-01 | Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Jonathan David Ostry et al. |
| 5 | 268 | 2.3 | [Monetary/Fiscal policy mix and agents' beliefs](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2017.02.011) | [Review of Economic Dynamics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economic-dynamics.md) | 2017-03-14 | Francesco Bianchi, Cosmin Ilut |

## Cite this page

Scholar4AI. (2026). Papers on “fiscal policy”. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/fiscal-policy

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  author = {{Scholar4AI}},
  title = {Papers on “fiscal policy”},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/fiscal-policy}},
  urldate = {2026-11-03},
  note = {Journal and Conference Research Rankings; data from OpenAlex (CC0); licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
}
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License: CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).