David Scharfstein

30.7k citations
83 papers · 19.0k · 9 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

  • Accounting top 0.02%
    • Corporate Finance and Governance
    • Private Equity and Venture Capital
    • Risk Management in Financial Firms
    • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Finance top 0.02%
    • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
    • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
    • Global Financial Crisis and Policies

Papers in

    • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency 34
    • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies 9
    • Global Financial Crisis and Policies 9
    • Economic theories and models 10
    • Housing Market and Economics 10
    • Firm Innovation and Growth 5

David Scharfstein

77 papers receiving 17.1k citations

David Scharfstein's Hit Papers

Bank lending during the financial crisis of 2008 2009 · 1.9k citations
1.9k0+12+25Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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David Scharfstein
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  • Accounting 13.0k
  • Finance 10.2k
  • Economics and Econometrics 8.4k
  • Strategy and Management 2.8k
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1.4k
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All Works

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Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies
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19932286
2
Herd Behavior and Investment
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19882039
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Bank lending during the financial crisis of 2008
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20091871
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Corporate Structure, Liquidity, and Investment: Evidence from Japanese Industrial Groups
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19911726
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The Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets: Divisional Rent‐Seeking and Inefficient Investment
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20001205
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Optimal Debt Structure and the Number of Creditors
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1996978
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Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short‐Term Speculation
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1992800
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Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies
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1993692
9
Internal versus External Capital Markets
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1994500
10 2005487
11 1991485
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A Theory of Predation Based on Agency Problems in Financial Contracting
1990482
13 2009421
14 2007374
15 1988368
16 2000366
17 1988357
18 2009297
19 2013290
20 2003229

About David Scharfstein

David Scharfstein is a scholar working on Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance and Strategy and Management, having authored 83 papers that have together received 19.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (34 papers), Corporate Finance and Governance (28 papers), Private Equity and Venture Capital (11 papers), Economic theories and models (10 papers), Housing Market and Economics (10 papers), Financial Markets and Investment Strategies (9 papers), Global Financial Crisis and Policies (9 papers) and Firm Innovation and Growth (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Accounting (13.0k citations), Finance (10.2k citations), Economics and Econometrics (8.4k citations), Strategy and Management (2.8k citations) and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance (1.4k citations). David Scharfstein has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Jeremy C. Stein, Kenneth Froot, Victoria Ivashina, Patrick Bolton, Anil Kashyap, Robert Gertner, Takeo Hoshi, Paul A. Gompers, Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies and The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

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