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David B. Humphrey

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
52
Citations
21656
World Ranking
1223
National Ranking
735

David B. Humphrey publications per year

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1963 2025

223 publications in total across all disciplines

David B. Humphrey 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 David B. Humphrey sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 210 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David B. Humphrey 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 David B. Humphrey sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

David B. Humphrey is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Finance, Management Science and Operations Research, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Economics and Econometrics, and Strategy and Management.

The primary topics covered in their publications address banking stability, regulation, and efficiency; efficiency analysis using DEA; monetary policy and economic impact; microfinance and financial inclusion; and digital platforms and economics.

Humphrey has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, including:

  • "Distance functions, bank output, and productivity" (2020), published in Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • "Falling Use of Cash and Demand for Retail Central Bank Digital Currency" (2022), published in IMF Working Paper
  • "Instant Payments: Regulatory Innovation and Payment Substitution Across Countries" (2022), published in IMF Working Paper
  • "Measurement and Use of Cash by Half the World's Population" (2023), published in IMF Working Paper
  • "Falling use of cash and population age structure" (2022), published in The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures

Their frequent coauthor is Tanai Khiaonarong, with whom they have collaborated on multiple papers.

David B. Humphrey has published in several venues, notably:

  • IMF Working Paper
  • Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • The Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures
  • Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems
  • Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting

Best Publications

  • Efficiency of financial institutions: International survey and directions for future research

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • The dominance of inefficiencies over scale and product mix economies in banking

    Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • Consistency Conditions for Regulatory Analysis of Financial Institutions: A Comparison of Frontier Efficiency Methods

    Paul W. Bauer;Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Gary D. Ferrier;David B. Humphrey

  • Competitive viability in banking: Scale, scope, and product mix economies

    Allen N. Berger;Gerald A. Hanweck;David B. Humphrey

  • Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Commercial Banking

    Allen N Berger;David B Humphrey

  • The Effects of Megamergers on Efficiency and Prices: Evidence from a Bank Profit Function

    Jalal D. Akhavein;Jalal D. Akhavein;Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • Bank efficiency derived from the profit function

    Allen N. Berger;Diana Hancock;David B. Humphrey

  • Megamergers in Banking and the Use of Cost Efficiency as an Antitrust Defense

    Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • The Effects of Megamergers on Efficiency and Prices: Evidence from a Bank Profit Function

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  • Cross-Country Comparisons of Competition and Pricing Power in European Banking

    Santiago Carbó;David Humphrey;Joaquín Maudos;Philip Molyneux

  • Cash, paper, and electronic payments: a cross-country analysis

    David B. Humphrey;Lawrence B. Pulley;Jukka M. Vesala

  • Banks' Responses to Deregulation: Profits, Technology, and Efficiency

    David B. Humphrey;Lawrence B. Pulley

  • Scale Economies in Banking: A Restructuring and Reassessment

    George J. Benston;Gerald A. Hanweck;David B. Humphrey

  • Realizing the Gains from Electronic Payments: Costs, Pricing, and Payment Choice

    David B. Humphrey;Moshe Kim;Bent Vale

  • The Role of Fixed Costs and Cost Complementarities in Determining Scope Economies and the Cost of Narrow Banking Proposals

    Lawrence B. Pulley;David B. Humphrey

  • Do consumers pay for one-stop banking? Evidence from an alternative revenue function

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey;Lawrence B. Pulley

  • Substitution among Capital, Labor, and Natural Resource Products in American Manufacturing

    David Burras Humphrey;J. R. Moroney

  • Benefits from a changing payment technology in European banking.

    David Humphrey;Magnus Willesson;Göran Bergendahl;Ted Lindblom

  • Why do estimates of bank scale economies differ

    David B. Humphrey

  • Cost and technical change: Effects from bank deregulation

    David B. Humphrey

  • Efficiency of Financial Institutions : International Survey and Directions for Future Research

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • Efficiency of financial institutions: international survey and directions for future research

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • Measurement and Efficiency Issues in Commercial Banking

    Allen Berger;David B. Humphrey

  • EXPLAINING BANK COST EFFICIENCY IN EUROPE: ENVIRONMENTAL AND PRODUCTIVITY INFLUENCES.

    Santiago Carbó Valverde;David B. Humphrey;Rafael López del Paso

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen N. Berger
Allen N. Berger University of South Carolina
Joaquin Maudos
Joaquin Maudos University of Valencia
Philip Molyneux
Philip Molyneux Bangor University
Russell G. Thompson
Russell G. Thompson University of Melbourne
Gerard Caprio
Gerard Caprio Williams College
Guillermo A. Calvo
Guillermo A. Calvo Columbia University
Fabrizio Coricelli
Fabrizio Coricelli Paris School of Economics

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