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René M. Stulz

Business, Management and Accounting · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1980
Corporate Finance and GovernanceFinancial Markets and Investment StrategiesBanking stability, regulation, efficiencyGlobal Financial Crisis and PoliciesAuditing, Earnings Management, Governance

Publications

600

Citations

81,118

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

46

Publishing since 1980

Research summary
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René M. Stulz studies corporate finance topics such as why companies choose to stay private or go public, how firms manage financial risk, bank payout and regulatory policy, shareholder rights, and corporate governance. His work often uses large-scale data and natural experiments to examine how financial decisions and regulations affect firms and markets, particularly in the U.S. context.

Corporate finance and governanceFinancial risk managementPublic vs. private firm listing decisions (including 'unicorns')Bank regulation and payout policyShareholder rights and governance reform

Publication output has gradually declined over the last decade, from around 20+ papers per year in 2017-2020 to roughly 12-14 per year in 2023-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 11.2/year recently
2017: 21 publications172018: 18 publications182019: 16 publications192020: 22 publications22202021: 18 publications212022: 18 publications222023: 12 publications232024: 14 publications242025: 12 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×72
  • National Bureau of Economic Research×36
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics×13
  • Journal of applied corporate finance×11
  • Journal of Financial Economics×9
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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