Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Corporate Finance, as of August 2026

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There are 9358 institutions with 74012 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Corporate Finance, these are 621 institutions and 674 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.11	32	1.71
2	Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	1.83	4	1.37
3	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	3	9	2.40
-	Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	3.85	2	0.69
4	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.00	4	0.30
5	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.33	6	0.87
6	Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	6.22	5	1.94
7	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	7.33	3	0.23
8	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	8.70	8	2.02
-	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	9.89	4	1.08
8	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	9.89	4	1.08
10	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	10.09	40	1.33
11	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	11.45	6	2.20
12	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	11.94	3	0.58
13	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	12.05	3	0.87
14	Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden	12.40	5	1.33
-	Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden	13.80	4	1.16
15	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	14.67	6	1.01
-	Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	15.50	3	0.65
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	15.62	5	0.86
16	University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business, Austin, Texas (United States)	16.41	1	0.36
-	University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business → Department of Finance, Austin, Texas (United States)	17.47	1	0.36
17	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	17.67	4	0.60
18	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	17.95	6	1.01
19	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	18.51	5	1.27
-	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	18.75	4	0.94
20	University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	20.45	3	1.56
21	Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	21.28	2	0.88
-	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)	22.25	4	0.35
21	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	22.25	4	0.35
23	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	22.62	2	0.17
24	European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	23.30	7	2.49
25	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	23.51	6	1.15
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	23.52	4	1.82
26	Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	24.82	4	1.02
27	Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	26.17	4	0.95
28	Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	27.90	1	0.29
29	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	28.22	5	0.82
30	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy	28.67	5	0.72
31	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	29.92	7	1.63
32	University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	32.60	1	0.23
33	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	32.78	5	1.86
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom	33.43	2	1.05
34	Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland	33.66	8	0.59
-	University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	34.46	2	0.19
34	University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)	34.46	2	0.19
36	Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands	35.64	5	1.13
37	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	37.33	3	0.95
38	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	39.24	2	0.17
39	Stevens Institute of Technology → School of Business, Hoboken, New Jersey (United States)	39.37	1	0.37
40	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	40.23	5	0.96
41	Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark	40.49	2	1.02
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	41.17	1	0.13
42	Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)	42.51	1	0.28
-	Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark	43.43	1	0.16
-	Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Finance Group, Amsterdam, Netherlands	44.66	2	0.42
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	44.87	3	0.56
-	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France	46.14	3	0.64
43	Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy	46.20	7	0.75
44	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	47.29	8	2.23
45	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Rotterdam School of Management (RSM Erasmus University), Rotterdam, Netherlands	47.59	2	0.86
46	Suomen Pankki, Helsinki, Finland	47.86	2	0.34
-	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Rotterdam School of Management (RSM Erasmus University) → Department of Finance, Rotterdam, Netherlands	48.62	2	0.86
47	Bank of Korea, Seoul, South Korea	48.88	1	0.09
48	Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	49.02	1	0.45
49	Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy	49.08	19	7.26
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	49.74	2	0.54
50	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) → Collège du Management de la Technologie, Lausanne, Switzerland	51.00	1	0.44
51	Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland	51.08	5	0.55
52	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	51.45	2	0.73
53	Boston University → Questrom School of Business, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	53.08	2	0.70
54	Indiana University → School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)	53.87	1	0.10
55	Fordham University → Gabelli School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	55.24	1	0.14
56	University of New Orleans → College of Business and Administration, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	55.91	1	0.50
57	KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium	56.87	3	0.27
-	University of New Orleans → College of Business and Administration → Department of Economics and Finance, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	56.93	1	0.50
-	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	57.79	1	0.40
58	Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Roma, Italy	58.08	8	2.28
59	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	58.53	3	0.16
60	Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland	58.80	5	1.08
61	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	60.69	2	0.10
62	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	61.80	1	0.13

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	René M. Stulz (Rene M. Stulz) Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	1.28
2	John Y. Campbell Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.78
3	Ross Levine Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	3.93
4	Michael Steven Weisbach Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	5.12
5	Steven Neil Kaplan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.47
6	Sheridan Titman University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business → Department of Finance, Austin, Texas (United States)	7.50
7	Josh Lerner Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	9.89
8	Tim Bollerslev Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	9.91
9	M. Kabir Hassan (Mohammad Kabir Hassan) University of New Orleans → College of Business and Administration → Department of Economics and Finance, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	12.09
10	Anjan V. Thakor Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	14.34
11	Henri Servaes London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	14.97
12	Iftekhar Hasan Fordham University → Gabelli School of Business, New York City, New York (United States) Suomen Pankki, Helsinki, Finland	15.38
13	Luigi Zingales University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	16.03
14	Paul Alan Gompers Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	17.58
15	Jeremy Stein National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	17.84
16	Bjørn Espen Eckbo (Bjorn Espen Eckbo) Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	18.22
17	Benjamin Hermalin University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	18.32
18	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	18.35
19	Luc Laeven European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	18.56
20	Malcolm Baker Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.31
21	Viral V. Acharya New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States) London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	22.01
22	Douglas J. Cumming Stevens Institute of Technology → School of Business, Hoboken, New Jersey (United States)	22.14
23	Thomas H. Noe Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	22.30
24	Alex Edmans University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	23.86
25	Campbell Harvey Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	24.07
26	Francis Diebold University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	24.23
27	Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	24.96
28	Oliver D. Hart Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	25.89
29	Lasse Heje Pedersen Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark	26.63
30	Alexander Ljungqvist Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden	26.65
31	David Hirshleifer University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	28.71
32	Jeffrey Wurgler New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	32.26
33	Chen Lin University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	33.01
34	Randall Morck University of Alberta → School of Business, Edmonton, Canada	33.85
35	Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	35.72
36	Pablo Fernandez Universidad de Navarra → IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain	35.74
37	Steven Ongena Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Banking und Finance (Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen), Zürich, Switzerland Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland	36.27
38	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	37.46
39	Gur Huberman Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	37.80
40	Peter F. Christoffersen †	39.42
41	Lucian Bebchuk Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Harvard University → Harvard School of Law → John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	39.90
42	Colin Mayer Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	41.44
43	Roni Michaely University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong	42.92
44	Marco Pagano Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy	43.40
45	Manju Puri Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	46.24
46	G. Andrew Karolyi Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)	46.74
47	William Goetzmann Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	47.00
48	Lubos Pastor University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	47.37
49	Gordon M. Phillips Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	48.87
50	Allen N. Berger Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	49.58
51	S Viswanathan Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States) Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	49.72
52	Thomas Hellmann Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	49.91
53	Ruediger Fahlenbrach École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) → Collège du Management de la Technologie, Lausanne, Switzerland	50.48
54	Christian Leuz University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	51.06
55	Mariassunta Giannetti Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Finance, Stockholm, Sweden	51.08
56	Adriano A. Rampini Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	52.76
57	Luc Renneboog Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	53.28
58	Josef Zechner WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria	53.39
59	Torben G. Andersen National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	54.33
60	Hyun Song Shin Bank of Korea, Seoul, South Korea	58.92
61	Eugene Kandel Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel	59.45
62	Harrison Hong	59.58
63	Hans Degryse KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium	59.86
64	Lu Zhang Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	61.76
65	Ulrike Malmendier	61.89
66	Tim Jenkinson Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	64.01
67	Mike Wright †	64.87

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