2026 W. Scott Frame: 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	33	3210	2917	1740	1533	140	7110

W. Scott Frame 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 W. Scott Frame sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

W. Scott Frame 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 W. Scott Frame sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

W. Scott Frame is affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within economics, econometrics, finance, business, management, and accounting.

The main fields of study covered in their work include:

Economics, Econometrics and Finance
Business, Management and Accounting

Within these broader fields, the scientist has contributed to several subfields such as:

Finance
Economics and Econometrics
Accounting

The topics explored throughout their career involve:

Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Housing Market and Economics
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
Corporate Finance and Governance
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Credit Risk and Financial Regulations

W. Scott Frame has published extensively and contributed to several research venues. Frequent publication sources include:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers
The Journal of Finance
Journal of money credit and banking
Journal of Financial Intermediation

Notable recent papers by this researcher are:

"Are the Largest Banking Organizations Operationally More Risky?" (2022), Journal of money credit and banking
"Haste Makes Waste: Banking Organization Growth and Operational Risk" (2020), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers
"Villains or Scapegoats? The Role of Subprime Borrowers in Driving the U.S. Housing Boom" (2021), Journal of Financial Intermediation
"Haste Makes Waste: Banking Organization Growth and Operational Risk" (2023), SSRN Electronic Journal
"Are the Largest Banking Organizations Operationally More Risky?" (2020), Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers

Frequent co-authors collaborating with W. Scott Frame include:

Atanas Mihov
Ping McLemore
Erik J. Mayer
Kristopher Gerardi
Eva Steiner

Best Publications

Empirical Studies of Financial Innovation: Lots of Talk, Little Action?

W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

964
Citations
Credit scoring and the availability, price, and risk of small business credit

Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;W. Scott Frame;Nathan H. Miller

677
Citations
Small Business Credit Scoring and Credit Availability

Allen N. Berger;W. Scott Frame

567
Citations
The Effect of Credit Scoring on Small-Business Lending

W. Scott Frame;Aruna Srinivasan;Lynn Woosley

565
Citations
The Diffusion of Financial Innovations: An Examination of the Adoption of Small Business Credit Scoring By Large Banking Organizations

Jalal Akhavein;W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

446
Citations
Debt Maturity, Risk, and Asymmetric Information

Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Marco A. Espinosa-Vega;W. Scott Frame;Nathan H. Miller

427
Citations
Debt maturity, risk, and asymmetric information

Allen Berger;Marco Espinosa-Vega;W Frame;Nathan H. Miller

416
Citations
Technological Change, Financial Innovation, and Diffusion in Banking

W Frame;Lawrence J. White

330
Citations
Why Do Borrowers Pledge Collateral? New Empirical Evidence on the Role of Asymmetric Information

Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Marco A. Espinosa-Vega;W. Scott Frame;Nathan H. Miller

294
Citations
Tests of ex ante versus ex post theories of collateral using private and public information

Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;W. Scott Frame;Vasso Ioannidou

276
Citations
Credit Scoring and the Availability of Small Business Credit in Low‐ and Moderate‐Income Areas

W. Scott Frame;Lynn Woosley

225
Citations
The Surprising Use of Credit Scoring in Small Business Lending by Community Banks and the Attendant Effects on Credit Availability, Risk, and Profitability

Allen N. Berger;Allen N. Berger;Adrian M. Cowan;W. Scott Frame

206
Citations
Fussing and Fuming over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?

W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

196
Citations
Estimating the effect of mortgage foreclosures on nearby property values: A critical review of the literature

W. Scott Frame

152
Citations
The Federal Home Loan Bank System: The Lender of Next‐to‐Last Resort?

Adam B. Ashcraft;Morten L. Bech;W. Scott Frame

150
Citations
Credit scoring and the availability, price, and risk of small business credit

Allen Berger;W Frame;Nathan H. Miller

144
Citations
The Value of Olympic Sponsorships: Who is Capturing the Gold? *

Kathleen Anne Farrell;W. Scott Frame

139
Citations
The Information Revolution and Small Business Lending: The Missing Evidence

Robert DeYoung;W. Scott Frame;Dennis Glennon;Peter Nigro

135
Citations
Empirical Studies of Financial Innovation: Lots of Talk, Little Action?

W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

119
Citations
Technological Change, Financial Innovation, and Diffusion in Banking

W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

118
Citations
The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

W. Scott Frame;Andreas Fuster;Joseph S. Tracy;James Vickery

94
Citations
The Effect of Credit Scoring on Small Business Lending in Low- and Moderate-Income Areas

W. Scott Frame;Michael Padhi;Lynn Woosley

86
Citations
The Profit-Structure Relationship in Legally Protected Banking Markets Using Efficiency Measures

W. Scott Frame;David R. Kamerschen

82
Citations
Fussing and Fuming Over Fannie and Freddie: How Much Smoke, How Much Fire?

Lawrence J. White;W. Scott Frame

70
Citations
The Diffusion of Financial Innovations: An Examination of the Adoption of Small Business Credit Scoring by Large Banking Organizations

Jalal D. Akhavein;W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

65
Citations
Empirical Studies of Financial Innovation: Lots of Talk, Little Action?

W Frame;Lawrence White

16
Citations
The Federal Home Loan Bank System

W. Scott Frame;Lawrence J. White

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Allen N. Berger University of South Carolina

Lawrence J. White New York University

Kristopher S. Gerardi Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Joseph S. Tracy American Enterprise Institute

Andreas Fuster École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Larry D. Wall Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Robert DeYoung University of Kansas

James Vickery Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Paul S. Willen Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Daniel P. McMillen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

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