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2026

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Economics and Finance

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

Ross Levine 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 Ross Levine sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 440 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ross Levine 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 Ross Levine sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 126 scientists 31 D-Index: 147 scientists 32 D-Index: 157 scientists 33 D-Index: 178 scientists 34 D-Index: 171 scientists 35 D-Index: 141 scientists 36 D-Index: 132 scientists 37 D-Index: 129 scientists 38 D-Index: 130 scientists 39 D-Index: 120 scientists 40 D-Index: 117 scientists 41 D-Index: 113 scientists 42 D-Index: 114 scientists 43 D-Index: 97 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 86 scientists 46 D-Index: 78 scientists 47 D-Index: 83 scientists 48 D-Index: 62 scientists 49 D-Index: 74 scientists 50 D-Index: 50 scientists 51 D-Index: 66 scientists 52 D-Index: 69 scientists 53 D-Index: 55 scientists 54 D-Index: 67 scientists 55 D-Index: 61 scientists 56 D-Index: 62 scientists 57 D-Index: 45 scientists 58 D-Index: 34 scientists 59 D-Index: 47 scientists 60 D-Index: 46 scientists 61 D-Index: 36 scientists 62 D-Index: 37 scientists 63 D-Index: 56 scientists 64 D-Index: 50 scientists 65 D-Index: 32 scientists 66 D-Index: 28 scientists 67 D-Index: 30 scientists 68 D-Index: 24 scientists 69 D-Index: 25 scientists 70 D-Index: 22 scientists 71 D-Index: 21 scientists 72 D-Index: 26 scientists 73 D-Index: 24 scientists 74 D-Index: 23 scientists 75 D-Index: 12 scientists 76 D-Index: 14 scientists 77 D-Index: 15 scientists 78 D-Index: 15 scientists 79 D-Index: 17 scientists 80 D-Index: 17 scientists 81 D-Index: 11 scientists 82 D-Index: 10 scientists 83 D-Index: 16 scientists 84 D-Index: 11 scientists 85 D-Index: 5 scientists 86 D-Index: 9 scientists 87 D-Index: 13 scientists 88 D-Index: 9 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 6 scientists 91 D-Index: 4 scientists 92 D-Index: 8 scientists 93 D-Index: 10 scientists 94 D-Index: 11 scientists 95 D-Index: 6 scientists 96 D-Index: 4 scientists 97 D-Index: 4 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100 D-Index: 8 scientists 101+ D-Index: 100 scientists
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This scientist: 136 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% 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

  • 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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