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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
136
Citations
173430
World Ranking
17
National Ranking
13

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
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ross Levine is affiliated with the Hoover Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, with a significant number of publications also categorized under business, management, and accounting.

The main subfields of their scholarly work include accounting, economics and econometrics, finance, strategy and management, and information systems. The key research topics covered by their publications focus on banking stability, regulation and efficiency, Islamic finance and banking studies, corporate finance and governance, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, housing market and economics, financial literacy, pension and retirement analysis, as well as insurance and financial risk management.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ross Levine include:

  • How Did Depositors Respond to COVID-19? (2021), Review of Financial Studies
  • Geographic Diversification and Banks' Funding Costs (2020), Management Science
  • Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending (2020), Review of Financial Studies

Additional influential papers with contributions from co-authors include:

  • Corporate immunity to the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), Journal of Financial Economics
  • Social Distancing and Social Capital: Why U.S. Counties Respond Differently to COVID-19 (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ross Levine are Wensi Xie, Chen Lin, Wenzhi Ding, Mingzhu Tai, and Martin Goetz.

The scientist's publications frequently appear in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Management Science, Review of Financial Studies, Harvard Dataverse, and Journal of Financial Economics.

Ross Levine has also contributed to book publications, including "Capital Market Financing and Firm Growth," published in 2020 by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Finance and growth: Schumpeter might be right

    Ross, King, Robert G. Levine

  • Financial Development and Economic Growth: Views and Agenda

    Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Finance and Growth: Schumpeter Might Be Right

    Unknown

  • Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions

    William Easterly;Ross Levine

  • Finance and Growth: Theory and Evidence

    Ross Levine

  • Stock Markets, Banks, and Economic Growth

    Ross Levine;Sara Zervos

  • Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and causes ☆

    Ross Levine;Norman Loayza;Thorsten Beck

  • Finance and the sources of growth

    Thorsten Beck;Ross Levine;Norman Loayza;Norman Loayza

  • Finance, entrepreneurship and growth

    Robert G King;Robert G King;Ross Levine

  • Bank governance, regulation and risk taking

    Luc Laeven;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • A new database on financial development and structure

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Ross Levine

  • Stock markets, banks and growth: Panel evidence

    Thorsten Beck;Ross Levine

  • Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development

    William Easterly;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • A New Database on the Structure and Development of the Financial Sector

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Ross Levine

  • Finance, inequality and the poor

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Big bad banks? The winners and losers from bank deregulation in the United States

    Thorsten Beck;Ross Levine;Alexey Levkov

  • Regulations, market structure, institutions, and the cost of financial intermediation

    Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Luc Laeven;Ross Levine

  • Bank-Based or Market-Based Financial Systems: Which is Better?

    Ross Levine

  • Financial institutions and markets across countries and over time - data and analysis

    Thorsten Beck;Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Stock market development and long-run growth

    Ross Levine;Sara Zervos

  • Bank Regulation and Supervision: What Works Best?

    James R Barth;James R Barth;Gerard Caprio;Ross Levine

  • Bank concentration, competition, and crises: First results

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Ross Levine

  • Financial development and economic growth : views and agenda

    Ross Levine;Ross Levine

  • Chapter 12 Finance and Growth: Theory and Evidence

    Ross Levine

Frequent Co-Authors

Thorsten Beck
Thorsten Beck European University Institute
Chen Lin
Chen Lin University of Hong Kong
Luc Laeven
Luc Laeven European Central Bank
James R. Barth
James R. Barth Auburn University
Gerard Caprio
Gerard Caprio Williams College
William Easterly
William Easterly New York University
Robert G. King
Robert G. King Boston University

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