2026 Stephen A. Ross: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	72	403	273	195	112328

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World Ranking

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Publications

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Economics and Finance

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112328

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Morgan Stanley – American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance
2000 - Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA)
1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association
Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Overview

Stephen A. Ross was primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their academic work spanned multiple disciplines, focusing extensively on the social sciences and the arts and humanities.

Their research topics covered a range of areas including:

Parental Involvement in Education
Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
School Choice and Performance
Samuel Beckett and Modernism
Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Modernist Literature and Criticism
Asian American and Pacific Histories

Subfields of study included literature and literary theory, education, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and philosophy.

Stephen A. Ross published regularly in several academic venues, including:

Journal of Human Capital
Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada
Modernism/Modernity Print Plus
Modernist Cultures
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Their recent publications from 2020 to 2021 demonstrated diversity in focus and scope. These included:

"The Effects of Foreign-Born Peers in US High Schools and Middle Schools" (2021) published in Journal of Human Capital
""Responsible Reading is Inherently Ethical and Political"" (2021) published in Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada
"Indigenous Modernities: Afterword: Unsettling Modernist Studies" (2021) published in Modernism/Modernity Print Plus
"Beckett's Molloy, the Promise of Youth, and the Postwar" (2021) published in Modernist Cultures
"Digital Tribalography" (2020) published in PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Frequent collaborators included Jason M. Fletcher, Jinho Kim, Jenna Nobles, Irina Shaorshadze, and Paul M. Firstenberg.

Throughout their career, Stephen A. Ross received various recognitions, such as:

Morgan Stanley - American Finance Association Award for Excellence in Finance (2014)
Fellow of the American Finance Association (AFA) (2000)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1975)
Fellow of the Financial Management Association

Best Publications

Option pricing: A simplified approach☆

John C. Cox;John C. Cox;Stephen A. Ross;Mark Rubinstein

10270
Citations
The Arbitrage Theory of Capital Asset Pricing

Stephen Ross

10036
Citations
The arbitrage theory of capital asset pricing

Stephen A Ross

9976
Citations
The Economic Theory of Agency: The Principal's Problem.

Stephen A Ross

8737
Citations
The determination of financial structure: the incentive-signalling approach

Stephen A. Ross

8652
Citations
Economic Forces and the Stock Market

N F Jotjensen;R Roll;S Ross

8239
Citations
A theory of the term structure of interest rates'', Econometrica 53, 385-407

Unknown

5111
Citations
The valuation of options for alternative stochastic processes

John C. Cox;Stephen A. Ross

4773
Citations
Continuous-Time Finance

Robert C. Merton;Paul Anthony Samuelson

3954
Citations
A TEST OF THE EFFICIENCY OF A GIVEN PORTFOLIO

Michael R. Gibbons;Stephen A. Ross;Jay Shanken

3161
Citations
AN INTERTEMPORAL GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL OF ASSET PRICES

John C. Cox;Jonathan E. Ingersoll;Stephen A. Ross

2946
Citations
Tobin's $q$ Ratio and Industrial Organization

Eric B. Lindenberg;Stephen A. Ross

1874
Citations
An Empirical Investigation of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Richard Roll;Stephen A. Ross

1731
Citations
Survivorship Bias in Performance Studies

Stephen J. Brown;William Goetzmann;Roger G. Ibbotson;Stephen A. Ross

1598
Citations
Information and Volatility: The No-Arbitrage Martingale Approach to Timing and Resolution Irrelevancy

Stephen A. Ross

1498
Citations
The relation between forward prices and futures prices

John C. Cox;Jonathan E. Ingersoll;Stephen A. Ross

1211
Citations
Options and Efficiency

Stephen A. Ross

1048
Citations
Compensation, Incentives, and the Duality of Risk Aversion and Riskiness

Stephen A. Ross

871
Citations
Waiting to Invest: Investment and Uncertainty

Jonathan E. Ingersoll;Stephen A. Ross

846
Citations
Princípios de administração financeira

Stephen A. Ross;Randolph W. Westerfield

831
Citations
A Re‐examination of Traditional Hypotheses about the Term Structure of Interest Rates

John C. Cox;Jonathan E. Ingersoll;Stephen A. Ross

805
Citations
High-Water Marks and Hedge Fund Management Contracts

William N. Goetzmann;Jonathan E. Ingersoll;Stephen A. Ross

781
Citations
A Simple Approach to the Valuation of Risky Streams.

Stephen A Ross

748
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Bradford D. Jordan University of Florida

Philip H. Dybvig Washington University in St. Louis

William N. Goetzmann Yale University

Richard Roll California Institute of Technology

Leonid Kogan MIT

Jiang Wang MIT

Laurence J. Kotlikoff Boston University

Paul Taubman University of Pennsylvania

John Yinger Syracuse University

Stephen J. Brown New York University

External Links

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