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2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
66
Citations
19749
World Ranking
568
National Ranking
3

Sumit Agarwal 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 Sumit Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 534 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sumit Agarwal 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 Sumit Agarwal sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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 Singapore Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Sumit Agarwal is affiliated with the National University of Singapore. Their research spans primarily the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a specific focus on subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, Finance, General Health Professions, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main research topics explored by Agarwal include Housing Market and Economics, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts, and Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Agarwal include:

  • Discriminant Accuracy of the SOFA Score for Determining the Probable Mortality of Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia Requiring Mechanical Ventilation (2021) published in JAMA
  • FinTech, Lending and Payment Innovation: A Review (2020) published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies
  • FinTech and household finance: a review of the empirical literature (2020) published in China Finance Review International
  • Disguised corruption: Evidence from consumer credit in China (2020) published in Journal of Financial Economics
  • Impact of temperature on morbidity: New evidence from China (2021) published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Agarwal include Pulak Ghosh, Yu Qin, Tien Foo Sing, Wenlan Qian, and Mingxuan Fan.

Agarwal's work has appeared in several publication venues, with the largest number of publications in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other frequent publication venues include Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Harvard Dataverse, and The Review of Economics and Statistics.

In addition to journal articles, Agarwal has published multiple books. The majority of these books have been published by World Scientific, including titles such as "Impact of COVID-19 on Asian Economies and Policy Responses" (2020), "Household Financial Management" (2022), "Kiasunomics©2" (2020), "Kiasunomics©3" (2023), and "Household Sustainability" (2024). Other publishers include the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, which released "Owe a Bank Millions, the Bank has a Problem: Credit Concentration in Bad Times" (2020), the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis with "Kiasunomics 2: Economic Insights For Everyday Life" (2020), and Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks for "The Impact of Atlantic Hurricanes on Business Activity" (2025).

Best Publications

  • Distance and Private Information in Lending

    Sumit Agarwal;Robert Hauswald

  • The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation

    Sumit Agarwal;John C. Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David I. Laibson

  • Inconsistent Regulators: Evidence from Banking*

    Sumit Agarwal;David Lucca;Amit Seru;Francesco Trebbi

  • The Reaction of Consumer Spending and Debt to Tax Rebates—Evidence From Consumer Credit Data

    Sumit Agarwal;Chunlin Liu;Nicholas S. Souleles

  • Cognitive Abilities and Household Financial Decision Making

    Sumit Agarwal;Bhashkar Mazumder

  • Regulating Consumer Financial Products: Evidence from Credit Cards*

    Sumit Agarwal;Souphala Chomsisengphet;Neale Mahoney;Johannes Stroebel

  • Telecommunications and economic growth: a panel data approach

    Anusua Datta;Sumit Agarwal

  • Consumption and Debt Response to Unanticipated Income Shocks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Singapore

    Sumit Agarwal;Wenlan Qian

  • Learning in the Credit Card Market

    Sumit Agarwal;John C Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David Laibson

  • Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

    Sumit Agarwal;Gene Amromin;Itzhak Ben-David;Souphala Chomsisengphet

  • The Spending and Debt Response to Minimum Wage Hikes

    Daniel Aaronson;Sumit Agarwal;Eric French

  • Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?

    Sumit Agarwal;Paige M. Skiba;Jeremy Tobacman

  • The Role of Securitization in Mortgage Renegotiation

    Sumit Agarwal;Gene Amromin;Itzhak Ben-David;Souphala Chomsisengphet

  • Policy Intervention in Debt Renegotiation: Evidence from the Home Affordable Modification Program

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  • Payday Loans and Credit Cards: New Liquidity and Credit Scoring Puzzles?

    Sumit Agarwal;Paige Marta Skiba;Jeremy Tobacman

  • Adverse selection in mortgage securitization

    Sumit Agarwal;Yan Chang;Abdullah Yavas

  • The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life-Cycle with Implications for Regulation

    Sumit Agarwal;John C. Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David Laibson;David Laibson

  • The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions Over the Lifecycle

    Sumit Agarwal;John C. Driscoll;Xavier Gabaix;David I. Laibson

  • Financial literacy and financial planning: Evidence from India

    Sumit Agarwal;Gene Amromin;Itzhak Ben-David;Souphala Chomsisengphet

  • Investor demand for IPOs and aftermarket performance: Evidence from the Hong Kong stock market

    Sumit Agarwal;Chunlin Liu;S. Ghon Rhee

  • FinTech, Lending and Payment Innovation: A Review

    Sumit Agarwal;Jian Zhang

  • Financial markets and the financing choice of firms: Evidence from developing countries

    Sumit Agarwal;Hamid Mohtadi;Hamid Mohtadi

  • Predatory lending and the subprime crisis

    Sumit Agarwal;Gene Amromin;Itzhak Ben-David;Souphala Chomsisengphet

Frequent Co-Authors

Souphala Chomsisengphet
Souphala Chomsisengphet Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Itzhak Ben-David
Itzhak Ben-David The Ohio State University
Brent W. Ambrose
Brent W. Ambrose Pennsylvania State University
David Laibson
David Laibson Harvard University
Amit Seru
Amit Seru Stanford University
Johannes Stroebel
Johannes Stroebel New York University
S. Ghon Rhee
S. Ghon Rhee University of Hawaii at Manoa
Xavier Gabaix
Xavier Gabaix Harvard University
Nicholas S. Souleles
Nicholas S. Souleles University of Pennsylvania
Yongheng Deng
Yongheng Deng University of Wisconsin–Madison

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