2026 Peter M. DeMarzo: 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	45	1727	1552	1021	894	110	13092

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Economics and Finance

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Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
2019 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)

Overview

Peter M. DeMarzo is a researcher primarily affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a pronounced focus on several subfields including Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Safety Research, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The research topics that Peter M. DeMarzo has contributed to include:

Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Game Theory and Applications
Economic theories and models
Corporate Finance and Governance
Economic Policies and Impacts

Peter M. DeMarzo's frequent co-authors include:

Zhiguo He
Fabrice Tourre
Ron Kaniel
Arvind Krishnamurthy
Stefan Nagel

Publications by Peter M. DeMarzo have appeared in a range of academic venues, with multiple contributions to the SSRN Electronic Journal, The Journal of Finance, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Financial Studies, and Harvard Dataverse.

Recent papers by the researcher include:

Contracting in Peer Networks, 2023, The Journal of Finance
Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction, 2023, Journal of Political Economy
Portfolio Liquidity and Security Design with Private Information, 2020, Review of Financial Studies
Leverage Dynamics without Commitment, 2020, The Journal of Finance
Interest Rate Risk in Banking, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Peter M. DeMarzo has received professional recognition including the Fellows of the Econometric Society in 2020 and the Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA) in 2019.

Best Publications

Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity Is Not Expensive

Anat R. Admati;Peter M. DeMarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul Pfleiderer

1313
Citations
Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Unidimensional Opinions

Peter M. DeMarzo;Dimitri Vayanos;Jeffrey Zwiebel

1216
Citations
Corporate Incentives for Hedging and Hedge Accounting

Peter M. DeMarzo;Darrell Duffie

1182
Citations
A liquidity-based model of security design

Peter Demarzo;Darrell Duffie

1097
Citations
The Pooling and Tranching of Securities: A Model of Informed Intermediation

Peter M. DeMarzo

968
Citations
Optimal Security Design and Dynamic Capital Structure in a Continuous‐Time Agency Model

Peter M. DeMARZO;Yuliy Sannikov

801
Citations
Leverage, Moral Hazard, and Liquidity

Viral V. Acharya;S. Viswanathan

630
Citations
Optimal long-term financial contracting

Peter M. DeMarzo;Michael J. Fishman

587
Citations
Dynamic Agency and the q Theory of Investment

Peter M. Demarzo;Michael J. Fishman;Zhiguo He;Neng Wang

552
Citations
Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Expensive

Anat R. Admati;Peter M. DeMarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul Pfleiderer

420
Citations
Corporate financial hedging with proprietary information

Peter M DeMarzo;Darrell Duffie

341
Citations
Agency and Optimal Investment Dynamics

Peter M. DeMarzo;Michael J. Fishman

316
Citations
Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

Viral V. Acharya;Peter M. DeMarzo;Ilan Kremer

313
Citations
The Leverage Ratchet Effect

Anat R. Admati;Peter M. DeMarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul C. Pfleiderer

311
Citations
Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design

Peter M. DeMarzo;Ilan Kremer;Andrzej Skrzypacz

295
Citations
Relative Wealth Concerns and Financial Bubbles

Peter M. DeMarzo;Ron Kaniel;Ilan Kremer

262
Citations
Diversification as a Public Good: Community Effects in Portfolio Choice

Peter M. Demarzo;Ron Kaniel;Ilan Kremer

236
Citations
Sequential Banking

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230
Citations
The Leverage Ratchet Effect: Leverage Ratchet Effect

Anat R. Admati;Peter M. Demarzo;Martin F. Hellwig;Paul Pfleiderer

213
Citations
Self-Regulation and Government Oversight

Peter M. DeMarzo;Michael J. Fishman;Kathleen M. Hagerty

182
Citations
Ownership Dynamics and Asset Pricing with a Large Shareholder

Peter M. DeMarzo;Branko Urošević

160
Citations
Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Uni-Dimensional Opinions

Peter M. DeMarzo;Peter M. DeMarzo;Jeffrey Zwiebel;Dimitri Vayanos;Dimitri Vayanos;Dimitri Vayanos

115
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Hellwig Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Anat R. Admati Stanford University

Zhiguo He Stanford University

Dimitri Vayanos London School of Economics and Political Science

Darrell Duffie Stanford University

Yishay Mansour Tel Aviv University

Viral V. Acharya New York University

Jeremy Bulow Stanford University

Jerry A. Hausman MIT

Shane Greenstein Harvard University

External Links

Wikipedia of Peter M. DeMarzo Personal website of Peter M. DeMarzo Google Scholar page

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