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D-Index
46
Citations
14860
World Ranking
1629
National Ranking
182

Alex Edmans publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Edmans sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Alex Edmans D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alex Edmans sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)
  • Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC)

Overview

Alex Edmans is affiliated with London Business School in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad areas, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Accounting, Finance, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
  • Economic Policies and Impacts

Edmans' recent publications consist of several papers addressing various aspects of finance and sustainability. These include:

  • The end of ESG (2022), published in Financial Management
  • CEO compensation: Evidence from the field (2023), published in Journal of Financial Economics
  • Socially Responsible Divestment (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Sustainable Finance (2022), published in European Finance Review
  • Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around the World (2023), published in Management Science

Their coauthors frequently include Tom Gosling, Dirk Jenter, Pierre Chaigneau, Daniel Gottlieb, and Caroline Flammer, reflecting collaboration across multiple research efforts.

Alex Edmans has contributed extensively to several publication venues, with the most frequent being the SSRN Electronic Journal, followed by The "business & management collection," Financial Management, Journal of Financial Economics, and European Finance Review.

They have also authored a book titled Grow the Pie, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Alex Edmans holds the distinction of being a Fellow of the Financial Institutions Center (FIC).

Best Publications

  • Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

    Alex Edmans

  • Blockholder Trading, Market Efficiency, and Managerial Myopia

    Alex Edmans

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets

    Philip Bond;Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein

  • Sports Sentiment and Stock Returns

    Alex Edmans;Diego García;Øyvind Norli

  • Governance Through Trading and Intervention: A Theory of Multiple Blockholders

    Alex Edmans;Gustavo Manso

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets: The Impact of Prices on Takeovers

    Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein;Wei Jiang

  • The Link Between Job Satisfaction and Firm Value, With Implications for Corporate Social Responsibility

    Alex Edmans

  • A Multiplicative Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Augustin Landier

  • Blockholders and Corporate Governance

    Alex Edmans

  • The Effect of Liquidity on Governance

    Alex Edmans;Vivian W. Fang;Emanuel Zur

  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Dirk Jenter

  • The Real Effects of Financial Markets

    Philip Bond;Alex Edmans;Itay Goldstein

  • The end of ESG

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  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Dirk Jenter

  • Dynamic CEO Compensation

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix;Tomasz Sadzik;Yuliy Sannikov

  • Inside Debt

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  • Equity Vesting and Investment

    Alex Edmans;Vivian W. Fang;Katharina A. Lewellen

  • Blockholders: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

    Alex Edmans;Clifford Holderness

  • Executive Compensation: A Modern Primer

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • Is CEO Pay Really Inefficient? A Survey of New Optimal Contracting Theories

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • The source of information in prices and investment-price sensitivity

    Alex Edmans;Alex Edmans;Sudarshan Jayaraman;Jan Schneemeier

  • Employee Satisfaction, Labor Market Flexibility, and Stock Returns Around The World

    Alex Edmans;Lucius Li;Chendi Zhang

  • Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices

    Alex Edmans;Alex Edmans

  • The Effect of Risk on the CEO Market

    Alex Edmans;Xavier Gabaix

  • Executive Compensation: A Survey of Theory and Evidence

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  • Do Investment Banks Matter for M&A Returns?

    Jack Bao;Alex Edmans

Frequent Co-Authors

Xavier Gabaix
Xavier Gabaix Harvard University
Itay Goldstein
Itay Goldstein University of Pennsylvania
Wei Jiang
Wei Jiang Emory University
Tim Loughran
Tim Loughran University of Notre Dame
Paolo F. Volpin
Paolo F. Volpin Drexel University
Henri Servaes
Henri Servaes London Business School
Augustin Landier
Augustin Landier Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Alan Schwartz
Alan Schwartz Yale University
Roberta Romano
Roberta Romano Yale University

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