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Leora Klapper

Leora Klapper

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
62
Citations
37005
World Ranking
723
National Ranking
452

Leora Klapper 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 Leora Klapper sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 184 publications — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Leora Klapper 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 Leora Klapper sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Leora Klapper is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their subfields of study include Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Information Systems, and Media Technology.

Their research topics focus extensively on Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, Economic Growth and Development, ICT Impact and Policies, Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, and International Development and Aid.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Klapper include Dorothe Singer, Saniya Ansar, Sumit Agarwal, Jake Hess, and Emily Breza.

Publication venues where Klapper's work often appears include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks
  • Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing
  • IZA World of Labor
  • Revue d'économie financière

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Klapper are:

  • How digital payments can benefit entrepreneurs, 2023, IZA World of Labor
  • The importance of financial education for the effective use of formal financial services, 2023, Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing
  • Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Impact of an Extreme Weather Event on Business Performance, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The impact of formal savings on salaried workers' spending and borrowing in Eastern Ghana, 2021, RIDIE datasets

Klapper has contributed to several book publications, primarily through World Bank eBooks, with titles such as:

  • Financial Inclusion, Women, and Building Back Better, 2021
  • Toward Successful Development Policies: Insights from Research in Development Economics, 2020
  • Learning to Navigate a New Financial Technology: Evidence from Payroll Accounts, 2020
  • The Importance of Financial Education for the Effective Use of Formal Financial Services, 2023
  • Changing Perceptions of Institutions and Standard of Living in Iraq, 2021
  • The Global Findex Database 2021, 2022
  • The Global Findex Database 2025: Connectivity and Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy, 2025
  • The Impact of Atlantic Hurricanes on Business Activity, 2025

Best Publications

  • Corporate governance, investor protection, and performance in emerging markets

    Leora F. Klapper;Inessa Love

  • The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses

    Allen N. Berger;Leora F. Klapper;Gregory F. Udell

  • Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship

    Leora Klapper;Luc Laeven;Luc Laeven;Raghuram Rajan;Raghuram Rajan;Raghuram Rajan

  • The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer;Saniya Ansar

  • The Global Findex Database 2014 : measuring financial inclusion around the world

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer;Peter Van Oudheusden

  • The foundations of financial inclusion: understanding ownership and use of formal accounts

    Franklin Allen;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

  • Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors

    Reena Aggarwal;Leora Klapper;Peter D. Wysocki

  • Measuring Financial Inclusion : The Global Findex Database

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper

  • Bank competition and financial stability

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Leora F. Klapper;Rima Turk-Ariss

  • Bankruptcy around the World: Explanations of Its Relative Use

    Stijn Claessens;Leora F. Klapper

  • Further evidence on the link between finance and growth: an international analysis of community banking and economic performance

    Allen N. Berger;Iftekhar Hasan;Leora F. Klapper

  • Corporate governance and bank performance : a joint analysis of the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;George R.G. Clarke;Robert Cull;Leora F. Klapper

  • Trade credit contracts

    Leora Klapper;Luc Laeven;Raghuram Rajan

  • Measuring Financial Inclusion: Explaining Variation in Use of Financial Services across and within Countries

    Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Leora Klapper

  • The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises

    Leora Klapper

  • Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries

    Leora Klapper;Raphael Amit;Mauro F. Guillén;Juan Manuel Quesada

  • Financial literacy and its consequences: Evidence from Russia during the financial crisis

    Leora Klapper;Annamaria Lusardi;Georgios A. Panos

  • Financial Inclusion and Legal Discrimination Against Women : Evidence from Developing Countries

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer

  • Financial inclusion and inclusive growth : a review of recent empirical evidence

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer

  • Gender and the business environment for new firm creation

    Leora F. Klapper;Simon C. Parker

  • Financial literacy and financial resilience: Evidence from around the world

    Leora Klapper;Annamaria Lusardi

  • Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: A Joint Analysis of the Static, Selection, and Dynamic Effects of Domestic, Foreign, and State Ownership

    Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;George R. G. Clarke;Gregory F. Udell;Robert Cull

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen N. Berger
Allen N. Berger University of South Carolina
Inessa Love
Inessa Love University of Hawaii at Manoa
Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago
Luc Laeven
Luc Laeven European Central Bank
Simeon Djankov
Simeon Djankov London School of Economics and Political Science
Annamaria Lusardi
Annamaria Lusardi Stanford University
Stijn Claessens
Stijn Claessens Yale University
Reena Aggarwal
Reena Aggarwal Georgetown University
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria International Monetary Fund

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