2026 Ramana Nanda: 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	38	2522	2283	300	275	167	8308

Overview

Ramana Nanda is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily intersects multiple disciplines within business and economics, with a focus on areas such as private equity and venture capital, corporate finance and governance, and entrepreneurship studies. Their work explores firm innovation, growth, and financial mechanisms influencing entrepreneurial activity.

Their research contributions are documented across several major academic publication venues, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Financial Economics
The Journal of Finance
The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Key recent papers authored by Nanda include:

"The persistent effect of initial success: Evidence from venture capital" (2020), published in the Journal of Financial Economics
"Venture Capital's Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn" (2020), published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
"The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform" (2020), published in The Journal of Finance
"Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"Financing constraints, home equity and selection into entrepreneurship" (2021), published in Journal of Financial Economics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nanda include:

Josh Lerner
William R. Kerr
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Rembrand Koning
Michael Ewens

Their expertise spans multiple main fields and subfields of study, notably:

Business, Management and Accounting
Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Accounting
Economics and Econometrics
Management of Technology and Innovation
Management Information Systems
Finance

Within these areas, the central topics addressed in their body of work include:

Private Equity and Venture Capital
Corporate Finance and Governance
Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
Firm Innovation and Growth
FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance
Innovation Policy and R&D
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis

Best Publications

Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

William Kerr;Ramana Nanda;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

1122
Citations
Workplace Peers and Entrepreneurship

Ramana Nanda;Jesper B. Sørensen

776
Citations
Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda

740
Citations
Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts

Ethan Mollick;Ramana Nanda

693
Citations
Investment cycles and startup innovation

Ramana Nanda;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

653
Citations
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

Thomas Astebro;Holger Herz;Ramana Nanda;Roberto Weber

457
Citations
Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

Thomas Åstebro;Holger Herz;Ramana Nanda;Roberto A. Weber

444
Citations
Venture Capital’s Role in Financing Innovation: What We Know and How Much We Still Need to Learn

Joshua Lerner;Ramana Nanda

410
Citations
Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

Michael Ewens;Ramana Nanda;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

405
Citations
Financing Innovation

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382
Citations
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda

363
Citations
Financing Risk and Innovation

Ramana Nanda;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

304
Citations
A darker side to decentralized banks: Market power and credit rationing in SME lending ☆

Rodrigo Canales;Ramana Nanda

249
Citations
Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Ramana Nanda;Tarun Khanna

241
Citations
Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression

Ramana Nanda;Tom Nicholas

232
Citations
Did bank distress stifle innovation during the Great Depression

Ramana Nanda;Thomas Nicholas

221
Citations
The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital

Ramana Nanda;Sampsa Samila;Olav Sorenson

143
Citations
Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda;Ramana Nanda

141
Citations
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Firm Entry Size

William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda

115
Citations
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector

Ramana Nanda;Ramana Nanda;Shikhar Ghosh

105
Citations
Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda;Ramana Nanda

103
Citations
House Money and Entrepreneurship

Sari Kerr;William R. Kerr;Ramana Nanda

98
Citations
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy

Ramana Nanda;Ken Younge;Lee Fleming

93
Citations
The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform

Jean‐Noël Barrot;Ramana Nanda

87
Citations
Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Sabrina T. Howell;Ramana Nanda

86
Citations
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Ramana Nanda;Ramana Nanda;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf

81
Citations
Entrepreneurship and the Discipline of External Finance

Ramana Nanda

80
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William R. Kerr Harvard University

Josh Lerner Harvard University

Roberto A. Weber University of Zurich

Tarun Khanna Harvard University

David G. Robinson Heidelberg University

Lee Fleming University of California, Berkeley

Jay R. Ritter University of Florida

Robert E. Litan Brookings Institution

Robert D. Cooter University of California, Berkeley

Thomas F. Hellmann University of Oxford

External Links

Personal website of Ramana Nanda Google Scholar page

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