Academic finance has grown and evolved in the 46 years since the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) began publishing papers. This paper uses detailed data on the 2,858 papers written by 3,152 different authors published in the JFE from 1974-2019. Cumulatively, these papers have received...

The field of academic finance has grown and evolved in the 47 years since the Journalof Financial Economics (JFE) began publishing papers. This paper examines detailed dataon the 3,003 papers written by 3,358 different authors published in the JFE over the period1974–2020. Advances in...

Complete Lists of Authors, Institutions, and Papers and the Citations They Have Received in the Social Science Citation Index.The paper "The Remarkable Growth in Financial Economics, 1974-2020" is available here: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3722311

This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set of related patterns of change that accompany the processes of growth and development. Traditionally, the focus...

Due to population aging, GDP growth per capita and GDP growth per working-age adult have become quite different among many advanced economies over the last several decades. Countries whose GDP growth per capita performance has been lackluster, like Japan, have done surprisingly well in terms of...