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D-Index
47
Citations
22088
World Ranking
1540
National Ranking
926

Jarrad Harford 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 Jarrad Harford sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 122 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jarrad Harford 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 Jarrad Harford sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jarrad Harford is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans across Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Key subfields of study include Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work addresses a range of topics, prominently including Corporate Finance and Governance, Firm Innovation and Growth, Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Auditing, Earnings Management and Governance, Corporate Taxation and Avoidance, Financial Reporting and Valuation Research, and the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Jarrad Harford has published frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Management Science

Recent papers include:

  • Anticompetitive effects of horizontal acquisitions: The impact of within-industry product similarity (2021), Journal of Financial Economics
  • International Trade and the Propagation of Merger Waves (2020), Review of Financial Studies
  • Disloyal Managers and Shareholders' Wealth (2022), Review of Financial Studies
  • The COVID-19 Crisis and the Allocation of Capital (2021), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
  • Who Benefits from Sustainability-linked Loans? (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors working with Jarrad Harford include:

  • Michael S. Foster
  • Eliezer M. Fich
  • Anh Tran
  • Ran Duchin
  • Buhui Qiu

Best Publications

  • Corporate Cash Reserves and Acquisitions

    Jarrad Harford

  • Corporate governance and firm cash holdings in the US

    Jarrad Harford;Sattar A. Mansi;William F. Maxwell

  • Monitoring: Which institutions matter?

    Xia Chen;Jarrad Harford;Kai Li

  • What drives merger waves

    Jarrad Harford

  • Determinants of corporate cash policy: Insights from private firms

    Huasheng Gao;Jarrad Harford;Kai Li

  • Decoupling CEO Wealth and Firm Performance: The Case of Acquiring CEOs

    Jarrad Harford;Kai Li

  • Refinancing Risk and Cash Holdings

    Jarrad Harford;Sandy Klasa;William F. Maxwell

  • The Cash-Flow Permanence and Information Content of Dividend Increases Versus Repurchases

    Wayne R Guay;Jarrad Harford

  • Do analysts matter for governance? Evidence from natural experiments

    Tao Chen;Jarrad Harford;Chen Lin

  • The Importance of Industry Links in Merger Waves

    Kenneth R. Ahern;Jarrad Harford

  • The sources of value destruction in acquisitions by entrenched managers

    Jarrad Harford;Mark Humphery-Jenner;Mark Humphery-Jenner;Ronan Powell

  • Do firms have leverage targets? Evidence from acquisitions

    Jarrad Harford;Sandy Klasa;Nathan Walcott

  • Monitoring: Which Institutions Matter?

    Kai Li;Jarrad Harford;Xia Chen

  • Takeover bids and target directors’ incentives: the impact of a bid on directors’ wealth and board seats

    Jarrad Harford

  • Motivated monitors: the importance of institutional investors’ portfolio weights

    Eliezer M. Fich;Jarrad Harford;Anh L. Tran

  • Corporate Cash Reserves and Acquisitions

    Jarrad Harford

  • Precautionary Savings with Risky Assets: When Cash is Not Cash

    Ran Duchin;Thomas Gilbert;Jarrad Harford;Christopher Hrdlicka

  • Do long-term investors improve corporate decision making?

    Jarrad Harford;Ambrus Kecskés;Sattar Mansi

  • What Drives Merger Waves

    Jarrad Harford

  • Managerial Opportunism? Evidence from Directors' and Officers' Insurance Purchases

    John M. R. Chalmers;Larry Y. Dann;Jarrad Harford

  • Information asymmetry, information dissemination and the effect of regulation FD on the cost of capital

    Jefferson Duarte;Xi Han;Jarrad Harford;Lance Young

  • Determinants of Corporate Cash Policy: Insights from Private Firms

    Huasheng Gao;Jarrad Harford;Kai Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Kai Li
Kai Li Zhengzhou University
Sattar A. Mansi
Sattar A. Mansi Virginia Tech
Chen Lin
Chen Lin University of Hong Kong
Ran Duchin
Ran Duchin University of Washington
Sudipto Dasgupta
Sudipto Dasgupta Chinese University of Hong Kong
Wayne R. Guay
Wayne R. Guay University of Pennsylvania
Brad M. Barber
Brad M. Barber University of California, Davis
Thomas J. Smith
Thomas J. Smith Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rani Hoitash
Rani Hoitash Bentley University

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