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49
Citations
10811
World Ranking
1443
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1983 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1977 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Richard Portes is affiliated with London Business School in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their work spans several subfields, including finance, accounting, and strategy and management, emphasizing issues within banking stability, regulation and efficiency, the global financial crisis and associated policies, credit risk and financial regulations, corporate finance and governance, state capitalism and financial governance, and Islamic finance and banking studies.

The scientist has contributed to various academic journals and platforms, with frequent publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal and journals such as the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of International Economics, and Review of International Economics. They have also published in institutional outlets like London Business School Research Online.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Mapping exposures of EU banks to the global shadow banking system, 2021, Journal of Banking & Finance
  • Corporate foreign bond issuance and interfirm loans in China, 2024, Journal of International Economics
  • The Global Dimensions of Macroprudential Policy, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Capital controls as a bargaining device: The case of Iceland, 2023, Review of International Economics
  • The Global Dimensions of Macroprudential Policy, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal

Collaborations are a consistent feature of their research, with frequent co-authors including Tuomas Peltonen, Yi Huang, Ugo Panizza, Thorsten Beck, and Willem H. Buiter.

Richard Portes has been recognized within the academic community through several distinctions, including election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1983, a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1977, and election as a Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • The determinants of cross-border equity flows

    Richard Portes;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

  • The costs and benefits of eastern enlargement: the impact on the EU and central Europe

    Richard E. Baldwin;Joseph F. Francois;Richard Portes

  • The Anatomy of Financial Crises

    Barry Eichengreen;Richard Portes

  • Information and capital flows: The determinants of transactions in financial assets

    Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Yonghyup Oh

  • The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

    Richard Portes;Helene Rey

  • Macroeconomic models with quantity rationing

    John Muellbauer;Richard Portes;Richard Portes

  • Debt and default in the 1930s: Causes and consequences

    Barry J. Eichengreen;Richard Portes

  • The Anatomy of Financial Crises

    Barry Eichengreen;Barry Eichengreen;Barry Eichengreen;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Richard Portes

  • Mexico and the Brady plan

    Sweder van Wijnbergen

  • The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

    Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

  • Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves: The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar

    Elias Papaioannou;Richard Portes;Gregorios Siourounis

  • Disequilibrium Estimates for Consumption Goods Markets in Centrally Planned Economies

    Richard Portes;David Winter

  • The Capital Structure of Firms in Central and Eastern Europe

    Francesca Cornelli;Francesca Cornelli;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Mark E. Shaffer

  • The Asian financial crisis : causes, contagion and consequences

    Pierre-Richard Agénor;Marcus Miller;David Vines;Axel Weber

  • Debt and default in the 1930s

    Barry Eichengreen;Richard Portes

  • Mexico: stabilization, debt and growth

    Rudiger Dornbusch

  • The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows

    Richard Portes;Helene Rey;Helene Rey

  • Macroeconomic Planning and Disequilibrium: Estimates for Poland, 1955-1980

    Richard Portes;Richard E. Quandt;David Winter;Stephen Yeo

  • Costs and benefits of running an international currency

    Elias Papaioannou;Richard Portes

  • Costs and benefits of running an international currency

    Elias Papaioannou;Richard Portes

  • International Costs and Benefits from EMU

    George Alogoskoufis;Richard Portes

  • The Demand for Money and For Consumption Goods in Centrally Planned Economies

    Richard Portes;David Winter

  • The Determinants of Cross-Border Equity Flows: The Geography of Information

    Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

  • The Theory and Measurement of Macroeconomic Disequilibrium in Centrally Planned Economies

    Richard Portes

  • Money and the Consumption Goods Market in China

    Richard Portes;Anita Santorum

  • MACROECONOMIC EQUILIBRIUM AND DISEQUILIBRIUM IN CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMIES

    Richard Portes

  • The capital structure of firms in Central and Eastern Europe

    F Cornelli;R Portes;Mark Edwin Schaffer

  • The Emergence of the Euro as an International Currency

    Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Richard Portes;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey;Hélène Rey

  • New Dimensions in Regional Integration

    Jaime de Melo;Arvind Panagariya

Frequent Co-Authors

Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Hélène Rey
Hélène Rey London Business School
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ugo Panizza
Ugo Panizza Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Charles Wyplosz
Charles Wyplosz Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Richard E. Baldwin
Richard E. Baldwin IMD Business School
Thorsten Beck
Thorsten Beck European University Institute
Alberto Giovannini
Alberto Giovannini Columbia University
Mathias Dewatripont
Mathias Dewatripont Université Libre de Bruxelles
Xavier Freixas
Xavier Freixas Barcelona School of Economics

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