2026 Steven Ongena: 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	67	532	477	7	7	429	24486

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Steven Ongena is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and has an extensive publication record spanning topics primarily in economics, econometrics, and finance as well as business, management, and accounting.

Their recent scholarly work includes papers such as:

"Climate Change Risk and the Cost of Mortgage Credit" (2022) published in European Finance Review
"Being stranded with fossil fuel reserves? Climate policy risk and the pricing of bank loans" (2024) published in Financial Markets Institutions and Instruments
"Sorry, We're Closed" Bank Branch Closures, Loan Pricing, and Information Asymmetries" (2020) published in European Finance Review
"ESG and systemic risk" (2022) published in Applied Economics
"On-Site Inspecting Zombie Lending" (2022) published in Management Science

Ongena's frequent co-authors include:

Manthos D. Delis
Alin Marius Andrieş
Nicu Sprincean
Shusen Qi
Mahmoud Fatouh

Their publications appear most often in venues such as:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Journal of Banking & Finance
Journal of Financial Stability
Journal of Financial Intermediation

Main disciplines of study involve:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Business, Management and Accounting

Within these fields, subfields of particular focus include:

Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Accounting
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Strategy and Management

The central research topics covered by Ongena's work are:

Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Corporate Finance and Governance
Housing Market and Economics
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Credit Risk and Financial Regulations
Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
Insurance and Financial Risk Management

Best Publications

Distance, Lending Relationships and Competition

Hans Degryse;Steven Ongena

1942
Citations
Hazardous times for monetary policy : What do twenty-three million bank loans say about the effects of monetary policy on credit risk-taking?

Gabriel Jimenez;Steven Ongena;José Luis Peydró;Jesús Saurina

1936
Citations
Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications

Gabriel Jiménez;Steven Ongena;José Luis Peydró;Jesùs Saurina

1334
Citations
Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments

Gabriel Jimenez;Steven Ongena;José Luis Peydró;Jesús Saurina

1000
Citations
Monetary Policy, Risk-Taking, and Pricing : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Vasso Ioannidou;Steven Ongena;José Luis Peydró

832
Citations
What Determines the Number of Bank Relationships? Cross-Country Evidence

Steven Ongena;David C. Smith

810
Citations
The duration of bank relationships

Steven Ongena;David C Smith

707
Citations
Microeconometrics of Banking: Methods, Applications, and Results

Hans Degryse;Moshe Kim;Steven Ongena

520
Citations
Does banking competition alleviate or worsen credit constraints faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from China

Terence Tai Leung Chong;Liping Lu;Steven Ongena;Steven Ongena

504
Citations
Banks Response to Higher Capital Requirements: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Reint Gropp;Thomas Mosk;Steven Ongena;Carlo Wix

490
Citations
Financial integration and entrepreneurial activity: Evidence from foreign bank entry in emerging markets

Mariassunta Giannetti;Steven Ongena

483
Citations
“When the cat's away the mice will play”: Does regulation at home affect bank risk-taking abroad? ☆

Steven Ongena;Steven Ongena;Alexander A. Popov;Gregory F. Udell

445
Citations
“Time for a Change”: Loan Conditions and Bank Behavior when Firms Switch Banks

Vasso Ioannidou;Steven Ongena

431
Citations
Bank relationships: A review

Steven Ongena;D.C. Smith

405
Citations
Of religion and redemption: Evidence from default on Islamic loans

Lieven Baele;Moazzam Farooq;Steven Ongena

364
Citations
The impact of competition on bank orientation

Hans Degryse;Steven Ongena

336
Citations
To what extent will the banking industry be globalized? a study of bank nationality and reach in 20 European nations

Allen N. Berger;Qinglei Dai;Steven Ongena;David C. Smith

334
Citations
Competition and regulation in the banking sector: A review of the empirical evidence on the sources of bank rents

Hans Degryse;Steven Ongena

333
Citations
Shocks Abroad, Pain at Home? Bank-Firm-Level Evidence on the International Transmission of Financial Shocks

Steven Ongena;José Luis Peydró;Neeltje van Horen

321
Citations
Collateralization, bank loan rates and monitoring

Geraldo Cerqueiro;Steven Ongena;Kasper Roszbach

306
Citations
Hazardous Times for Monetary Policy: What Do Twenty-Three Million Bank Loans Say about the Effects of Monetary Policy on Credit Risk-Taking?

Gabriel Jiménez;Steven Ongena;Jose-Luis Peydro;Jose-Luis Peydro;Jose-Luis Peydro;Jesus Saurina Salas

208
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Degryse KU Leuven

José-Luis Peydró Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies

Manthos D. Delis Audencia Business School

Elena Carletti Bocconi University

Jesús Saurina Bank of Spain

Iftekhar Hasan Fordham University

Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School of Economics

Allen N. Berger University of South Carolina

Abe de Jong Monash University

Giancarlo Spagnolo University of Rome Tor Vergata

External Links

Personal website of Steven Ongena Google Scholar page

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