2026 Kenneth R. French: 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	73	378	338	258	227	125	161157

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Economics and Finance

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227

125

161157

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
2007 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Kenneth R. French is affiliated with Dartmouth College in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with eight publications in this main field. Subfields covered include Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Strategy and Management, Accounting, and General Economics, Econometrics, and Finance.

Their work spans several key topics:

Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Financial Reporting and Valuation Research
Housing Market and Economics
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
Global Trade and Economics

Kenneth R. French has contributed papers to multiple publication venues, with five publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal and Financial Review respectively, and other articles appearing in The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics.

The following are some of their recent papers with publication years and venues:

The Value Premium, 2020, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
The Value Premium, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
Production of U.S. SMB and HML in the Fama-French Data Library, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal
House Prices and Rents, 2024, Review of Financial Studies
Issue Information, 2020, Financial Review

Frequent co-authors include Eugene F. Fama, with nine joint publications; Paul Schultz, with five; Robert L. Kieschnick, Rabih Moussawi, and Bradley Benson, each with four joint publications.

Kenneth R. French has been recognized with the following awards:

Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA), 2008
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007

Best Publications

Common risk factors in the returns on stocks and bonds

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

24749
Citations
The Cross‐Section of Expected Stock Returns

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

18883
Citations
Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

8521
Citations
Industry costs of equity

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

8046
Citations
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets

Kenneth French;James Poterba

7554
Citations
A five-factor asset pricing model

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7419
Citations
Expected stock returns and volatility

Kenneth R. French;G.William Schwert;Robert F. Stambaugh

5977
Citations
Size and Book-to-Market Factors in Earnings and Returns

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

5792
Citations
The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns

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5536
Citations
BUSINESS CONDITIONS AND EXPECTED RETURNS ON STOCKS AND BONDS

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

5334
Citations
Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

4559
Citations
Dividend yields and expected stock returns

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

3799
Citations
Testing Trade-Off and Pecking Order Predictions About Dividends and Debt

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

3677
Citations
Investor Diversification and International Equity Markets

Kenneth R. French;Kenneth R. French;James M. Poterba;James M. Poterba

3620
Citations
Value versus Growth: The International Evidence

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

3463
Citations
Disappearing dividends: changing firm characteristics or lower propensity to pay?

Eugene F Fama;Kenneth R French

3285
Citations
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Theory and Evidence

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

3236
Citations
Stock returns and the weekend effect

Kenneth R. French

2612
Citations
Stock return variances: The arrival of information and the reaction of traders

Kenneth R. French;Richard Roll;Richard Roll

2588
Citations
Size, Value, and Momentum in International Stock Returns §

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

2259
Citations
Luck versus Skill in the Cross-Section of Mutual Fund Returns

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

2091
Citations
Taxes, Financing Decisions, and Firm Value

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

1791
Citations
The Equity Premium

Eugene F. Fama;Kenneth R. French

1748
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene F. Fama University of Chicago

John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution

Robert J. Shiller Yale University

John Y. Campbell Harvard University

Anil K. Kashyap University of Chicago

Darrell Duffie Stanford University

Douglas W. Diamond University of Chicago

René M. Stulz The Ohio State University

David S. Scharfstein Harvard University

Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University

External Links

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