Research records for Chaired finance positions

ABSTRACT

We examine the research records for chaired finance professors at all the Carnegie Rank 1 and 2 Universities in the U.S. Chaired finance professors at Carnegie Rank 1 universities have a median of 11 top finance, economics, or accounting publications, whereas chaired finance professors at Carnegie Rank 2 Universities have a median of 3 top publications. Chaired finance professors at Rank 1 universities produce an additional top publication roughly every 5 years, whereas chaired finance professors at Rank 2 universities produce an additional top publication roughly every 16 years. The University of Chicago has produced more Chaired professors than any other school; however, endowed finance professors who graduated from different top-tier schools have similar research records.

KEYWORDS:

• Chaired finance professors
• research records
• top publications

JEL CLASSIFICATION:

• A12
• A14

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

¹ Bornmann, Butz, and Wohlrabe (2017) rank QJE the top economics journal.

² Ghosh and Liu (2019) show that a reason for the gender gap in top economics journals is that women begin their academic careers in lower-ranked economic departments than men.

³ Rene Stulz is ranked first with 76 papers in all top journals. Among those who earned their PhDs from 1990 on, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam is ranked first with 47 top-tier papers.