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Finance, Markets, and Regulation

Finance, Markets, and Regulation is a research topic within Finance. Science Explorer counts 3.1k research works in it since 1950. 9.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the evolution, integration, and regulation of global financial systems, with a focus on the European Union, small and medium enterprises, market dynamics, risk management, and economic growth. It delves into topics such as banking supervision, market classification of risk, financial market integration, and the impact of exogenous factors like the COVID-19 pandemic on business value. The cluster also addresses issues related to corporate governance, investment strategies, and the role of financial institutions in emerging markets.

  • Financial Markets
  • European Union
  • Globalization
  • Banking Regulation
  • Market Integration
  • Small and Medium Enterprises
  • Corporate Governance
  • Economic Growth
  • Risk Management
  • Capital Market
Research works
3.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
302
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now

Which countries lead Finance, Markets, and Regulation research?

By volume, Poland and Brazil publish the most (126 and 56 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 126 works
  2. 2 Brazil 56 works
  3. 3 United States 23 works
  4. 4 India 9 works
  5. 5 Spain 3 works
  6. 6 Russia 3 works
  7. 7 China 2 works
  8. 8 Italy 2 works
  9. 9 Australia 2 works
  10. 10 France 2 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.

Poland: 55.5%Brazil: 24.4%United States: 9.9%India: 3.9%6 others listed: 6.2%56%largest
Poland126 · 55.5%Brazil56 · 24.4%United States23 · 9.9%India9 · 3.9%6 others listed14 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Finance, Markets, and Regulation research?

By volume in 2022-now, SGH Warsaw School of Economics publishes the most Finance, Markets, and Regulation research, followed by University of Łódź and University of Economics in Katowice.

Who are the leading researchers in Finance, Markets, and Regulation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Finance, Markets, and Regulation include Campbell R. Harvey and Ben Bernanke.

  1. 1 Campbell R. Harvey United States 82k citations
  2. 2 Ben Bernanke United States 63k 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 Finance, Markets, and Regulation?

The most cited paper in Finance, Markets, and Regulation is "Consumption, Aggregate Wealth and Expected Stock Returns" (Martin Lettau, Sydney C. Ludvigson, 1999), with 726 citations. Next come "Market Power in European Banking Sectors" (355) and "U.S. Industry Adjustment to Economic Deregulation" (313).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Consumption, Aggregate Wealth and Expected Stock Returns Martin Lettau, Sydney C. Ludvigson · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 1999 726
2 Market Power in European Banking Sectors Juan Fern�ndez de Guevara, Joaquı́n Maudos, Francisco P�rez · Journal of Financial Services Research Apr 2005 355
3 U.S. Industry Adjustment to Economic Deregulation Clifford M. Winston · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access Aug 1998 313
4 Aleksander Berentsen Recommends “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” by Satoshi Nakamoto Aleksander Berentsen Book chapter 2019 261
5 Performing finance: the industry, the media and its image Gordon L. Clark, Nigel J. Thrift, Adam Tickell · Review of International Political Economy Apr 2004 206
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Finance, Markets, and Regulation research done?

The largest centres of Finance, Markets, and Regulation research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), São Paulo (Brazil), Łódź (Poland) and Katowice (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 35 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 10 works
  3. 3 ŁódźPoland 9 works
  4. 4 KatowicePoland 9 works
  5. 5 KrakowPoland 9 works
  6. 6 WrocławPoland 9 works
  7. 7 PoznańPoland 8 works
  8. 8 RzeszówPoland 6 works
  9. 9 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 6 works
  10. 10 ToruńPoland 5 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WarsawPL · 35.2 works48×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Finance, Markets, and Regulation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Finance, Markets, and Regulation?

Among universities, judged by research, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and University of Łódź 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.

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
1SGH Warsaw School of EconomicsPoland 80.013.2%651.4×9 -38.2%
2University of ŁódźPoland 0.01.8%135.5×8 -49.9%

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 Finance, Markets, and Regulation, country by country

Is Finance, Markets, and Regulation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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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 Finance, Markets, and Regulation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Finance, Markets, and Regulation 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%Finance, Markets, and Regulation7.9% 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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