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D-Index
104
Citations
99330
World Ranking
79
National Ranking
1

Thorsten Beck 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 Thorsten Beck sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 319 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thorsten Beck 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 Thorsten Beck 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
30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 104 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% 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 Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Italy Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Thorsten Beck is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting. With a total of 23 publications in the main field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance and 11 in Business, Management and Accounting, their academic work reflects a broad engagement with financial and economic topics.

Their research subfields focus mainly on Finance with 15 publications, followed by Accounting (9), General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (4), Economics and Econometrics (4), and Strategy and Management (2). The main topics investigated include banking stability, regulation, and efficiency, corporate finance and governance, Islamic finance and banking studies, credit risk and financial regulations, housing market and economics, global financial crisis and policies, and natural resources and economic development.

Key recent papers authored by Thorsten Beck include:

  • Institution Building and Growth in Transition Economies 1987-2002, 2021, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • Sharing the Pain? Credit Supply and Real Effects of Bank Bail-ins, 2020, Review of Financial Studies
  • Are Banks Catching Corona? Effects of COVID on Lending in the U.S., 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bank Sectoral Concentration and Risk: Evidence from a Worldwide Sample of Banks, 2022, Journal of money credit and banking
  • The Economics of Supranational Bank Supervision, 2022, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Thorsten Beck frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors. Notable frequent co-authors include Consuelo Silva Buston, Wolf Wagner, Antonio Sánchez Serrano, Tuomas Peltonen, and Richard Portes.

Their publications are often found in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of money credit and banking, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of International Money and Finance. The SSRN Electronic Journal stands out as the most frequent venue with 9 publications.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • New tools in comparative political economy : the database of political institutions

    Thorsten Beck;George Clarke;Alberto Groff;Philip Keefer

  • Financial and Legal Constraints to Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Vojislav Maksimovic

  • 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

  • Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt

  • 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

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

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

  • Islamic vs. conventional banking: business model, efficiency and stability

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Ouarda Merrouche

  • Bank concentration, competition, and crises: First results

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Ross Levine

  • Financing patterns around the world: Are small firms different?

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirgüç-Kunt;Vojislav Maksimovic

  • Industry Growth and Capital Allocation: Does Having a Market- or Bank-Based System Matter?

    Thorsten Beck;Ross Levine

  • Small and medium enterprises across the globe

    Meghana Ayyagari;Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt

  • Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Ross Levine

  • The determinants of financing obstacles

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Luc Laeven;Vojislav Maksimovic

  • Small and medium enterprises across the globe: a new database

    Meghana Ayyagari;Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt

  • Reaching out : access to and use of banking services across countries

    Thorsten Beck;Asli Demirguc-Kunt;Maria Soledad Martinez Peria

Frequent Co-Authors

Ross Levine
Ross Levine Hoover Institution
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Maria Soledad Martinez Peria International Monetary Fund
Luc Laeven
Luc Laeven European Central Bank
Vojislav Maksimovic
Vojislav Maksimovic University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Cull
Robert Cull World Bank
Hans Degryse
Hans Degryse KU Leuven
Patrick Honohan
Patrick Honohan Trinity College Dublin
Ralph De Haas
Ralph De Haas Tilburg University

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