2026 David Blake: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	56	1002	893	108	98	384	13899

Research.com Recognitions

2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David Blake is affiliated with City, University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within social sciences and health professions, with a focus on topics intersecting global health care, mortality, insurance, and financial risk management.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

Social Sciences
Health Professions

More specifically, their subfields of study are:

General Health Professions
Demography
Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Accounting

David Blake's research topics include:

Global Health Care Issues
Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Health disparities and outcomes
Housing Market and Economics
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Insurance and Financial Risk Management

Publications by David Blake appear in numerous venues. The most frequent include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
North American Actuarial Journal
Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Annals of Actuarial Science

Highlighted recent papers authored or co-authored by Blake are:

The Impact of COVID-19 on Future Higher-Age Mortality, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
Surgical Infection Society Guidance for Operative and Peri-Operative Care of Adult Patients Infected by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), 2020, Surgical Infections
On the Structure and Classification of Mortality Models, 2020, North American Actuarial Journal
Identifiability in age/period/cohort mortality models, 2020, Annals of Actuarial Science
CBDX: a workhorse mortality model from the Cairns-Blake-Dowd family, 2020, Annals of Actuarial Science

Their frequent collaborators include:

Andrew J. G. Cairns
Andrew Hunt
Kevin Dowd
John Pickles
Amy Kessler

David Blake has contributed to the authorship of a book titled Managing Euro Risk: Saving Investors from Systemic Risk, published in 2020 by City, University of London.

Best Publications

A Two-Factor Model for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty: Theory and Calibration

Andrew J. G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd

1238
Citations
A Quantitative Comparison of Stochastic Mortality Models Using Data From England and Wales and the United States

A. J G Cairns;Blake David;Kevin Dowd;Guy D. Coughlan

921
Citations
Pricing Death: Frameworks for the Valuation and Securitization of Mortality Risk

Andrew J.G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd

494
Citations
SURVIVOR BONDS: HELPING To HEDGE MORTALITY RISK

David Blake;William Burrows

475
Citations
Living with Mortality: Longevity Bonds and Other Mortality-Linked Securities

D. Blake;A. J. G. Cairns;K. Dowd

461
Citations
Asset Allocation Dynamics and Pension Fund Performance

David Blake;Bruce N. Lehmann;Allan Timmermann

460
Citations
Mortality density forecasts: An analysis of six stochastic mortality models

Andrew J.G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd;Guy D. Coughlan

404
Citations
Stochastic lifestyling: Optimal dynamic asset allocation for defined contribution pension plans

Andrew J.G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd

391
Citations
Mutual Fund Performance: Evidence from the UK

David Blake;Allan Timmermann

381
Citations
Modelling and management of mortality risk: a review

Andrew J. G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd

377
Citations
Pension economics

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305
Citations
Bayesian Stochastic Mortality Modelling for Two Populations

Andrew J. G. Cairns;David Blake;Kevin Dowd;Guy D. Coughlan

300
Citations
Longevity Bonds: Financial Engineering, Valuation, and Hedging

David Blake;Andrew Cairns;Kevin Dowd;Richard MacMinn;Richard MacMinn

281
Citations
Pensionmetrics 2: stochastic pension plan design during the distribution phase

David Blake;Andrew J.G. Cairns;Kevin Dowd

261
Citations
After VaR: The Theory, Estimation, and Insurance Applications of Quantile‐Based Risk Measures

Kevin Dowd;David Blake

248
Citations
Pensionmetrics: Stochastic pension plan design and value-at-risk during the accumulation phase

David Blake;Andrew J.G. Cairns;Kevin Dowd

244
Citations
A gravity model of mortality rates for two related populations

Kevin Dowd;Andrew Cairns;David Blake;Guy Coughlan

214
Citations
Backtesting stochastic mortality models: An ex-post evaluation of multiperiod-ahead density forecasts

Kevin Dowd;Andrew J. G. Cairns;David Blake;Guy D. Coughlan

208
Citations
Financial Market Analysis

David Blake

197
Citations
Longevity hedging 101: A framework for longevity basis risk analysis and hedge effectiveness

Guy D. Coughlan;Marwa Khalaf-Allah;Yijing Ye;Sumit Kumar

180
Citations
Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models

Kevin Dowd;Andrew J.G. Cairns;David Blake;Guy D. Coughlan

179
Citations
Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom

David Blake

164
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Dowd Durham University

Andrew J. G. Cairns Heriot-Watt University

Allan Timmermann University of California, San Diego

David L. Bish Indiana University

Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco

Steve J. Chipera Planetary Science Institute

David T. Vaniman Planetary Science Institute

Robert T. Downs University of Arizona

Allan H. Treiman Lunar and Planetary Institute

Russ Wermers University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

Personal website of David Blake

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