2026 Leora Klapper: 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	62	723	652	452	399	184	37005

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

3633
Citations
The ability of banks to lend to informationally opaque small businesses

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

2582
Citations
Entry regulation as a barrier to entrepreneurship

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

2283
Citations
The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution

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

2121
Citations
The Global Findex Database 2014 : measuring financial inclusion around the world

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

1841
Citations
The foundations of financial inclusion: understanding ownership and use of formal accounts

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

1508
Citations
Portfolio preferences of foreign institutional investors

Reena Aggarwal;Leora Klapper;Peter D. Wysocki

1438
Citations
Measuring Financial Inclusion : The Global Findex Database

Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper

1389
Citations
Bank competition and financial stability

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

1300
Citations
Bankruptcy around the World: Explanations of Its Relative Use

Stijn Claessens;Leora F. Klapper

1253
Citations
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

1044
Citations
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

994
Citations
Trade credit contracts

Leora Klapper;Luc Laeven;Raghuram Rajan

834
Citations
Measuring Financial Inclusion: Explaining Variation in Use of Financial Services across and within Countries

Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Leora Klapper

783
Citations
The role of factoring for financing small and medium enterprises

Leora Klapper

772
Citations
Entrepreneurship and firm formation across countries

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

553
Citations
Financial literacy and its consequences: Evidence from Russia during the financial crisis

Leora Klapper;Annamaria Lusardi;Georgios A. Panos

552
Citations
Financial Inclusion and Legal Discrimination Against Women : Evidence from Developing Countries

Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer

493
Citations
Financial inclusion and inclusive growth : a review of recent empirical evidence

Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Leora Klapper;Dorothe Singer

480
Citations
Gender and the business environment for new firm creation

Leora F. Klapper;Simon C. Parker

477
Citations
Financial literacy and financial resilience: Evidence from around the world

Leora Klapper;Annamaria Lusardi

342
Citations
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

308
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank

Allen N. Berger University of South Carolina

Inessa Love University of Hawaii at Manoa

Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago

Luc Laeven European Central Bank

Simeon Djankov London School of Economics and Political Science

Annamaria Lusardi Stanford University

Stijn Claessens Yale University

Reena Aggarwal Georgetown University

Maria Soledad Martinez Peria International Monetary Fund

External Links

Wikipedia of Leora Klapper Personal website of Leora Klapper Google Scholar page

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