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Robert C. Merton

Robert C. Merton publishes mostly in Finance, Economics and Econometrics and Accounting, on topics such as Economic theories and models, Banking stability, regulation, efficiency and Financial Markets and Investment Strategies.

World rank
#7,988
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,853
of 358,040
Works
51
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
57.6

What does Robert C. Merton research?

Finance: 46.0%Economics and Econometrics: 31.7%Accounting: 4.8%Strategy and Management: 4.8%other fields: 12.7%46%top field
Finance46.0%Economics and Econometrics31.7%Accounting4.8%Strategy and Management4.8%other fields12.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Finance46% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics32% of their works
  3. 3Accounting5% of their works
  4. 4Strategy and Management5% of their works
  5. 5General Economics, Econometrics and Finance5% of their works
  6. 6Soil Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert C. Merton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Liquidity, Asset Pricing, Economic Growth, Regulation, Financial Performance, Banking, Competitive Economy and Finance.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Liquidity153 topics
  2. Asset Pricing122 topics
  3. Economic Growth112 topics
  4. Regulation112 topics
  5. Financial Performance82 topics
  6. Banking61 topic
  7. Competitive Economy61 topic
  8. Finance61 topic
  9. Market Efficiency61 topic
  10. Monetary Equilibrium61 topic
  11. Option Pricing61 topic
  12. Stochastic Calculus61 topic
  13. Stock Returns61 topic
  14. Insurance51 topic
  15. Risk Management51 topic
  16. Credit Spread Changes31 topic
  17. Default Risk31 topic
  18. Economic Value Added31 topic
  19. Housing Supply31 topic
  20. Mortgage Credit Expansion31 topic
  21. Shareholder Value31 topic

Where does Robert C. Merton work?

Robert C. Merton's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Robert C. Merton have?

Science Explorer counts 51 works and 2,940 citations for Robert C. Merton, ranking #7,988 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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