2026 Laura T. Starks: 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	71	432	386	291	256	166	40652

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Laura T. Starks is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broader areas, Starks has a particular focus on Finance, Accounting, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and General Decision Sciences.

Starks's work addresses key topics including:

Corporate Finance and Governance
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Frequent publication venues for Starks's research include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Finance
Journal of Corporate Finance
Review of Financial Studies
European Finance Review

Collaborative work features repeated contributions with several co-authors, notably Natasha Burns, Kristina Minnick, Zacharias Sautner, Lee Seltzer, and Qifei Zhu.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Starks include:

"Presidential Address: Sustainable Finance and ESG Issues-ValueversusValues" (2023), published in The Journal of Finance
"Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance" (2021), published in Journal of Corporate Finance
"Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors" (2023), published in Review of Financial Studies
"ESG shareholder engagement and downside risk" (2023), published in European Finance Review
"Climate Regulatory Risk and Corporate Bonds" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Starks has been recognized as a Fellow of the Financial Management Association.

Best Publications

Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation

Jay C. Hartzell;Laura T. Starks

2813
Citations
Corporate governance proposals and shareholder activism: the role of institutional investors

Stuart L. Gillan;Laura T. Starks

2636
Citations
The Importance of Climate Risks for Institutional Investors

Philipp Krueger;Zacharias Sautner;Laura T Starks

2361
Citations
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors:A Global Perspective

Stuart L. Gillan;Laura T. Starks

1968
Citations
Of Tournaments and Temptations: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry

Keith C. Brown;W. V. Harlow;Laura T. Starks

1831
Citations
Internal Monitoring Mechanisms and CEO Turnover: A Long‐Term Perspective

Mark R. Huson;Robert Parrino;Laura T. Starks

1823
Citations
Behind the scenes: the corporate governance preferences of institutional investors

Joseph A. McCAHERY;Zacharias Sautner;Laura T. Starks

1819
Citations
Voting with their feet: institutional ownership changes around forced CEO turnover

Robert Parrino;Richard W Sias;Laura T Starks

1294
Citations
Firms and social responsibility: A review of ESG and CSR research in corporate finance

Stuart L. Gillan;Andrew Koch;Laura T. Starks

1290
Citations
Corporate Governance, Corporate Ownership, and the Role of Institutional Investors: A Global Perspective

Stuart L. Gillan;Laura T. Starks

1283
Citations
The Evolution of Shareholder Activism in the United States

Stuart L. Gillan;Laura T. Starks

1156
Citations
Active Institutional Shareholders and Costs of Monitoring: Evidence from Executive Compensation

Andres Almazan;Jay C. Hartzell;Laura T. Starks

1056
Citations
Greener Pastures and the Impact of Dynamic Institutional Preferences

James A. Bennett;Richard W. Sias;Laura T. Starks

877
Citations
Institutional Investors and Executive Compensation

Jay C. Hartzel;Laura T. Starks

645
Citations
An Equilibrium Model of Asset Trading with Sequential Information Arrival

Robert H. Jennings;Laura T. Starks;John C. Fellingham

625
Citations
Return autocorrelation and institutional investors

Richard W. Sias;Laura T. Starks

588
Citations
Signaling, Investment Opportunities, and Dividend Announcements

Pyung Sig Yoon;Laura T. Starks

565
Citations
Climate Risk Disclosure and Institutional Investors

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552
Citations
Day-of-the-week and intraday effects in stock returns

Michael Smirlock;Laura Starks

489
Citations
Performance Incentive Fees: An Agency Theoretic Approach

Laura T. Starks

478
Citations
Stock Versus Mutual Ownership Structures: The Risk Implications

Joan Lamm-Tennant;Laura T. Starks

472
Citations
Conflicts of interest in sell-side research and the moderating role of institutional investors

Alexander Ljungqvist;Alexander Ljungqvist;Felicia Marston;Laura T. Starks;Kelsey D. Wei

468
Citations
Of Tournaments and Temptations: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives in the Mutual Fund Industry

Keith C. Brown;W. Van Harlow;Laura T. Starks

420
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Ljungqvist Stockholm School of Economics

Martijn Cremers University of Notre Dame

Miguel A. Ferreira Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Pedro Matos University of Virginia

John M. Griffin The University of Texas at Austin

Reena Aggarwal Georgetown University

Bong-Soo Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford

Geert Bekaert Columbia University

Sheridan Titman The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

Personal website of Laura T. Starks

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