2026 Luigi Zingales: 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	102	87	77	70	61	207	130676

Luigi Zingales publications per year

1992 2025

257 publications in total across all disciplines

Luigi Zingales publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2027

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Luigi Zingales sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 207 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luigi Zingales D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2027

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2027. The highlighted bar marks where Luigi Zingales sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 102 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Luigi Zingales is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems, Safety Research, and Strategy and Management. The scientist's work addresses a range of topics with particular focus on Corporate Finance and Governance, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, Banking Stability, Regulation, Efficiency, Merger and Competition Analysis, FinTech and Digital Finance, Risk Management in Financial Firms, and Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management.

Recent publications by Luigi Zingales include:

"Civic capital and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic" (2020), published in the Journal of Public Economics
"Exit versus Voice" (2022), published in the Journal of Political Economy
"How pervasive is corporate fraud?" (2023), published in Review of Accounting Studies
"The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States" (2022), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry" (2021), published in Review of Financial Studies

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Review of Accounting Studies
Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik
Academy of Management Proceedings

Luigi Zingales has collaborated extensively with several co-authors, notable among them are Oliver Hart, Filippo Lancieri, John Manuel Barrios, Tommaso Valletti, and Joshua M. Levy. These collaborations reflect ongoing partnerships in research efforts across various domains of economics and management.

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships from prominent organizations including the American Finance Association in 2015, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, and the Financial Management Association. These affiliations denote contributions to the academic communities in finance and management.

Best Publications

Financial Dependence and Growth

Raghuram G Rajan;Luigi Zingales

23389
Citations
What Do We Know about Capital Structure? Some Evidence from International Data

Raghuram G. Rajan;Luigi Zingales

12726
Citations
Do Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities Provide Useful Measures of Financing Constraints?

Steven N. Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

7066
Citations
The great reversals: the politics of financial development in the twentieth century

Raghuram G. Rajan;Luigi Zingales

4833
Citations
Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes

Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

4559
Citations
Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange

Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

4266
Citations
Private Benefits of Control: An International Comparison

Alexander Dyck;Luigi Zingales

4250
Citations
The Role of Social Capital in Financial Development

Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

4170
Citations
Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis

Marco Pagano;Fabio Panetta;Luigi Zingales

3421
Citations
Trusting the stock market

Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

2759
Citations
The Cost of Diversity: The Diversification Discount and Inefficient Investment

Raghuram Rajan;Henri Servaes;Luigi Zingales

2698
Citations
People's opium? Religion and economic attitudes

Luigi Guiso;Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales;Luigi Zingales

2408
Citations
Innovation and Institutional Ownership

Philippe Aghion;John Van Reenen;Luigi Zingales

2281
Citations
In Search of New Foundations

Luigi Zingales

2067
Citations
Power in a Theory of the Firm

Raghuram G Rajan;Luigi Zingales

1971
Citations
Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud

Alexander Dyck;Adair Morse;Luigi Zingales

1901
Citations
Saving capitalism from the capitalists : unleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity

Raghuram Rajan;Luigi Zingales

1795
Citations
Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities are not Valid Measures of Financing Constraints

Steven Kaplan;Luigi Zingales

1521
Citations
The Value of the Voting Right: A Study of the Milan Stock Exchange Experience

Luigi Zingales

1450
Citations
Does Local Financial Development Matter

Luigi Guiso;Paola Sapienza;Luigi Zingales

1419
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paola Sapienza Northwestern University

Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago

Luigi Guiso Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Oliver Hart Harvard University

Adair Morse University of California, Berkeley

Philippe Aghion London School of Economics and Political Science

Pietro Veronesi University of Chicago

Steven N. Kaplan University of Chicago

Lucian Arye Bebchuk Harvard University

Marco Pagano University of Naples Federico II

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