| Economic growth in Germany, 1500–1850 U Pfister The Journal of Economic History 82 (4), 1071-1107, 2022 | 135* | 2022 |
| Die Zürcher Fabriques: Protoindustrielles Wachstum vom 16. zum 18. Jahrhundert U Pfister (No Title), 1992 | 80* | 1992 |
| International financial relations as part of the world-system U Pfister, C Suter International Studies Quarterly 31 (3), 239-272, 1987 | 79 | 1987 |
| The population history of Germany: Research strategy and preliminary results (No. WP-2010-035) U Pfister, G Fertig Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2010 | 72* | 2010 |
| The timing and pattern of real wage divergence in pre‐industrial Europe: evidence from Germany, c. 1500–1850 U Pfister The Economic History Review 70 (3), 701-729, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry U Pfister Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800, 2008 | 52 | 2008 |
| Le petit crédit rural en Suisse aux XVIe-XVIIIe siècles U Pfister Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 49 (6), 1339-1357, 1994 | 51 | 1994 |
| Craft guilds and proto-industrialization in Europe, 16th to 18th centuries U Pfister Guilds, Economy and Society, edited by SR Epstein, HG Haupt, Carlo Poni, and …, 1998 | 45 | 1998 |
| Politischer Klientelismus in der frühneuzeitlichen Schweiz U Pfister | 44 | 1992 |
| The protoindustrial household economy: Toward a formal analysis U Pfister Journal of Family History 17 (2), 201-232, 1992 | 42 | 1992 |
| Work roles and family structure in proto-industrial Zurich U Pfister The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20 (1), 83-105, 1989 | 40 | 1989 |
| Die Anfänge der Geburtenbeschränkung U Pfister Eine Fallstudie (ausgewählte Zürcher Familien im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert …, 1985 | 36* | 1985 |
| Real wages and the origins of modern economic growth in Germany, 16th to 19th centuries U Pfister, J Riedel, M Uebele EHES working papers in economic history, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| The quantitative development of Germany’s international trade during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries U Pfister Revue de l'OFCE 140 (4), 175-221, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| From Malthusian disequilibrium to the post-Malthusian era: The evolution of the preventive and positive checks in Germany, 1730–1870 U Pfister, G Fertig Demography 57 (3), 1145-1170, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Institutions versus demand: determinants of agricultural development in Saxony, 1660–1850 U Pfister, M Kopsidis European Review of Economic History 19 (3), 275-293, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Proto-industrialization and demographic change: the Canton of Zürich revisited U Pfister Journal of european economic history 18 (3), 629, 1989 | 25 | 1989 |
| The Crafts–Harley view of German industrialization: An independent estimate of the income side of net national product, 1851–1913 U Pfister European Review of Economic History 24 (3), 502-521, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Craft Guilds and Technological Change: The Engine Room in the European Silk Ribbon Industry in the Seventheenth and Eighteenth Centuries U Pfister | 23 | 2008 |
| The great moderation of grain price volatility: Market integration vs. climate change, Germany, 1650–1790 H Albers, U Pfister, M Uebele EHES Working Papers in Economic History, 2018 | 22* | 2018 |