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Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Banking stability, regulation, efficiency is a research topic within Finance. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of banking and finance, including liquidity, credit crunch, systemic risk, regulatory policies, monetary policy, small business lending, and the impact of financial crises on economic systems.

  • Banking
  • Finance
  • Liquidity
  • Credit
  • Regulation
  • Systemic Risk
  • Monetary Policy
  • Small Business Lending
  • Financial Crises
  • Interbank Market
Research works
51k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency

Which countries lead Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 1.2k works
  3. 3 India 676 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 613 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 364 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 343 works
  7. 7 Germany 343 works
  8. 8 Italy 326 works
  9. 9 France 301 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 186 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 28.6%China: 19.6%India: 11.1%United Kingdom: 10.1%6 others listed: 30.6%29%largest
United States1,739 · 28.6%China1,189 · 19.6%India676 · 11.1%United Kingdom613 · 10.1%6 others listed1,862 · 30.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research?

By volume in 2022-now, European Central Bank publishes the most Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research, followed by Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Federal Reserve.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 European Central BankGermany 75 works
  2. 2 Federal Reserve Board of GovernorsUnited States 69 works
  3. 3 Federal ReserveUnited States 58 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 53 works
  5. 5 Bank of ItalyItaly 48 works
  6. 6 International Monetary FundUnited States 41 works
  7. 7 National Bureau of Economic ResearchUnited States 37 works
  8. 8 Bank of SpainSpain 37 works
  9. 9 Centre for Economic Policy ResearchUnited Kingdom 34 works
  10. 10 Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 33 works

Who are the leading researchers in Banking stability, regulation, efficiency?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Banking stability, regulation, efficiency include Eugene F. Fama, Andrei Shleifer and Michael C. Jensen.

  1. 1 Eugene F. Fama United States 262k citations
  2. 2 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  3. 3 Michael C. Jensen United States 203k citations
  4. 4 Harry Eugene Stanley United States 198k citations
  5. 5 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  6. 6 Sanjay Basu United States 193k citations
  7. 7 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k citations
  8. 8 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  9. 9 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  10. 10 Anil Kumar Jain United States 160k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Banking stability, regulation, efficiency?

The most cited paper in Banking stability, regulation, efficiency is "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure" (Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling, 1976), with 72,158 citations. Next come "Law and Finance" (18,396) and "Legal Determinants of External Finance" (10,059).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure Michael C. Jensen, William H. Meckling · Journal of Financial Economics Oct 1976 72,158
2 Law and Finance Rafael La Porta, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer et al. · Journal of Political Economy Dec 1998 18,396
3 Legal Determinants of External Finance RAFAEL LA PORTA, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer et al. · The Journal of Finance Open access Jul 1997 10,059
4 Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity Douglas W. Diamond, Philip H. Dybvig · Journal of Political Economy Open access Jun 1983 9,677
5 Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring Douglas W. Diamond · The Review of Economic Studies Jul 1984 8,655
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research done?

The largest centres of Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Frankfurt am Main.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 267 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 254 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 236 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 134 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am MainGermany 130 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 113 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 105 works
  8. 8 Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 98 works
  9. 9 RomeItaly 96 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 89 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Frankfurt am MainDE · 130.1 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Banking stability, regulation, efficiency than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Banking stability, regulation, efficiency?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chicago, Columbia University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 19.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Zhongnan University …University of ChicagoColumbia UniversitySouthwestern Univers…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ChicagoUnited States 72.523.3%3.5×26 -27.6%
2Columbia UniversityUnited States 71.216.7%3.2×30 +8.9%
3Southwestern University of Finance and EconomicsChina 71.115.0%23.8×29 +80.0%
4Zhongnan University of Economics and LawChina 69.629.8%17.8×16 +63.7%
5Renmin University of ChinaChina 69.215.3%10.2×29 +57.0%
6Nanjing University of Finance and EconomicsChina 69.220.2%21.2×24 +273.7%
7Stanford UniversityUnited States 69.116.8%1.6×21 +13.5%
8University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia 67.825.6%13.0×11 +36.7%
9Ho Chi Minh City Open UniversityVietnam 67.422.4%44.2×16 +98.6%
10Central University of Finance and EconomicsChina 66.910.9%33.7×33 +75.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Banking stability, regulation, efficiency, country by country

Is Banking stability, regulation, efficiency research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Banking stability, regulation, efficiency as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Banking stability, regulation, efficiency0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Banking stability, regulation, efficiency over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Banking stability, regulation, efficiency10.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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