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Michael C. Jensen

Michael C. Jensen

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
82
Citations
305683
World Ranking
244
National Ranking
181

Michael C. Jensen 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 Michael C. Jensen sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 233 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael C. Jensen 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 Michael C. Jensen sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Michael C. Jensen was a scholar affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research predominantly focused on social sciences, with particular contributions in sociology and political science, statistics and probability, gender studies, strategy and management, and economics and econometrics.

Their work covered a range of topics including advanced causal inference techniques, crime, illicit activities and governance, gender diversity and inequality, political influence and corporate strategies, social and cultural dynamics, social and intergroup psychology, and names, identity, and discrimination research.

Michael C. Jensen published several papers recently, with notable works that include:

  • The Paradox of Awards: How Status Ripples Affect Who Benefits from CEO Awards, 2021, Organization Science
  • Value maximization, stakeholder theory, and the corporate objective function, 2024, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance
  • CEO incentives-It's not how much you pay, but how, 2024, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance

In addition to these, some closely related papers where Jensen was not the sole author but part of collaborative research include:

  • When Less Is More: How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy, 2022, Organization Science
  • When "Less Is More": How Statistical Discrimination Can Decrease Predictive Accuracy, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Michael C. Jensen include Yasir Dewan, Felipe A. Csaszar, Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Torsten Twardawski, and Nadja Younes.

Their research was published mainly in venues such as Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Organization Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, Academy of Management Proceedings, and Utah State Research and Scholarship (Utah State University).

In 1996, Michael C. Jensen was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    Michael C. Jensen;William H. Meckling

  • Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

    Michael C Jensen

  • SEPARATION OF OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL

    Eugene F. Fama;Michael C. Jensen

  • The Modern Industrial Revolution, Exit, and the Failure of Internal Control Systems

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Performance pay and top-management incentives

    Michael C. Jensen;Kevin J. Murphy

  • THE PERFORMANCE OF MUTUAL FUNDS IN THE PERIOD 1945–1964

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Agency Problems and Residual Claims

    Eugene F. Fama;Michael C. Jensen

  • The market for corporate control: The scientific evidence☆

    Michael C. Jensen;Richard S. Ruback

  • The Adjustment of Stock Prices to New Information

    Eugene F. Fama;Lawrence Fisher;Michael C. Jensen;Richard J. Roll

  • Value Maximization, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function*

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Theory of the firm; managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure

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  • The Capital Asset Pricing Model: Some Empirical Tests

    Fischer Black;Michael C. Jensen;Myron Scholes

  • Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance, and Takeovers

    Michael C. Jensen

  • The Adjustment of Stock Prices to New Information

    Unknown

  • Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure

    Unknown

  • Eclipse of the Public Corporation

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Value Maximisation, Stakeholder Theory, and the Corporate Objective Function

    Michael C. Jensen

  • Compensation and Incentives: Practice vs. Theory

    George P. Baker;Michael C. Jensen;Kevin J. Murphy

  • CEO Incentives—It's Not How Much You Pay, But How*

    Michael C. Jensen;Kevin J. Murphy

  • Separation of Ownership and Control

    Eugene F. Fama;Michael C. Jensen

  • Some anomalous evidence regarding market efficiency

    Michael C. Jensen

  • The Market for Corporate Control: The Scientific Evidence

    Richard S. Ruback;Michael C. Jensen

  • Performance Pay and Top Management Incentives

    Kevin J. Murphy;Michael C. Jensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene F. Fama
Eugene F. Fama University of Chicago
Ralph A. Walkling
Ralph A. Walkling Drexel University
Carliss Y. Baldwin
Carliss Y. Baldwin Harvard University
Stephen J. Forman
Stephen J. Forman City Of Hope National Medical Center
Jerold B. Warner
Jerold B. Warner University of Rochester
Clifford W. Smith
Clifford W. Smith University of Rochester
G. William Schwert
G. William Schwert National Bureau of Economic Research
David G. Nathan
David G. Nathan Harvard University
Stanley R. Riddell
Stanley R. Riddell University of Washington
Donald B. Kohn
Donald B. Kohn University of California, Los Angeles

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