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Global Financial Regulation and Crises

Global Financial Regulation and Crises is a research topic within Finance. Science Explorer counts 8.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the global governance of financial regulation and supervision, with an emphasis on topics such as banking union, transnational networks, macroprudential regulation, regulatory cooperation, and the impact of the financial crisis. The research explores the intricate dynamics of international politics and the complexities of harmonizing capital market regulations across different countries.

  • Financial Regulation
  • Global Governance
  • International Politics
  • Banking Union
  • Transnational Networks
  • Macroprudential Regulation
  • Regulatory Cooperation
  • Capital Market Regulation
  • Financial Crisis
  • European Union
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
856
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Financial Regulation and Crises

Which countries lead Global Financial Regulation and Crises research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (228 and 156 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 228 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 156 works
  3. 3 Germany 94 works
  4. 4 Italy 90 works
  5. 5 China 78 works
  6. 6 France 75 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 49 works
  8. 8 Belgium 41 works
  9. 9 India 37 works
  10. 10 Australia 32 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: 25.9%United Kingdom: 17.8%Germany: 10.7%Italy: 10.3%6 others listed: 35.4%26%largest
United States228 · 25.9%United Kingdom156 · 17.8%Germany94 · 10.7%Italy90 · 10.3%6 others listed311 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Global Financial Regulation and Crises research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Global Financial Regulation and Crises research, followed by London School of Economics and Political Science and University of Luxembourg.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  2. 2 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 14 works
  3. 3 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 14 works
  4. 4 Yale UniversityUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 10 works
  6. 6 University of Hong KongChina 10 works
  7. 7 European Central BankGermany 9 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 8 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 8 works
  10. 10 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Financial Regulation and Crises?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Financial Regulation and Crises include Andrei Shleifer, David F. Larcker and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 Andrei Shleifer United States 234k citations
  2. 2 David F. Larcker United States 197k citations
  3. 3 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  4. 4 Robert W. Vishny United States 137k citations
  5. 5 Robert J. Barro United States 110k 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 Global Financial Regulation and Crises?

The most cited paper in Global Financial Regulation and Crises is "The rise of the regulatory state in Europe" (Giandomenico Majone, 1994), with 1,838 citations. Next come "From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance" (1,350) and "Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world" (1,078).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The rise of the regulatory state in Europe Giandomenico Majone · West European Politics Jul 1994 1,838
2 From the Positive to the Regulatory State: Causes and Consequences of Changes in the Mode of Governance Giandomenico Majone · Journal of Public Policy May 1997 1,350
3 Crashed: how a decade of financial crises changed the world Paola Subacchi · International Affairs Sep 2019 1,078
4 Learning from Difference: The New Architecture of Experimentalist Governance in the EU Charles Frederick Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin · European Law Journal Open access 17 Mar 2008 788
5 The European Union and Forms of State: Westphalian, Regulatory or Post‐Modern? James A. Caporaso · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies Mar 1996 674
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Where is Global Financial Regulation and Crises research done?

The largest centres of Global Financial Regulation and Crises research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Brussels.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 61 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 28 works
  3. 3 BrusselsBelgium 23 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 23 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 23 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 22 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 21 works
  8. 8 Frankfurt am MainGermany 19 works
  9. 9 LuxembourgLuxembourg 16 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BrusselsBE · 23.3 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Financial Regulation and Crises than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Financial Regulation and Crises?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Luxembourg, London School of Economics and Political Science and Yale University 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%10%20%mean 7.52857%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Luxemb…London School of Eco…University of Hong K…Yale University
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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 LuxembourgLuxembourg 83.922.1%49.1×14 -35.4%
2London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 82.813.0%49.6×14 -25.4%
3Yale UniversityUnited States 50.90.5%9.9×13 +36.3%
4University of Hong KongChina 33.81.4%8.9×10 +152.2%
5National and Kapodistrian University of AthensGreece 32.32.0%16.3×10 +21.2%
6King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 30.410.0%8.4×8 -19.6%
7Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 25.43.7%13.4×8 -13.3%

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 Global Financial Regulation and Crises, country by country

Is Global Financial Regulation and Crises research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% 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 Global Financial Regulation and Crises as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Global Financial Regulation and Crises 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.

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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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