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Benjamin McKay Blau

Global rank #5695 93%

Institution: Utah State University

Primary Field: Finance (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://benblau.wixsite.com/mysite

First Publication: 2008

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pbl102 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.00 1.68 0.00 2.68
Last 10 Years 0.00 2.01 5.03 0.00 12.23
All Time 0.00 2.01 11.06 0.00 18.27

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 22
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 19.52

Publications (22)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Financial development and mortality rates Applied Economics C 3
2023 Reprint of: Do retail traders destabilize financial markets? An investigation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Banking & Finance B 4
2022 Do retail traders destabilize financial markets? An investigation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Banking & Finance B 4
2022 Lobbying and lending by banks around the financial crisis by Public Choice B 3
2021 Inflation and Bitcoin: A descriptive time-series analysis Economics Letters C 3
2021 Income inequality and the volatility of stock prices Applied Economics C 3
2019 Information in stock prices: the case of the 2016 U.S. presidential election Applied Economics C 3
2018 Income inequality, poverty, and the liquidity of stock markets Journal of Development Economics A 1
2018 Skewness, short interest and the efficiency of stock prices Applied Economics C 2
2017 Bank opacity and the efficiency of stock prices Journal of Banking & Finance B 3
2017 Lobbying, political connections and emergency lending by the Federal Reserve Public Choice B 1
2017 Skewness preferences, asset prices and investor sentiment Applied Economics C 1
2016 Gambling Preferences, Options Markets, and Volatility Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis B 3
2016 Guns, laws and public shootings in the United States Applied Economics C 3
2015 Do sophisticated investors interpret earnings conference call tone differently than investors at large? Evidence from short sales Journal of Corporate Finance B 3
2014 The information content of option ratios Journal of Banking & Finance B 3
2014 Economic freedom and the stability of stock prices: A cross-country analysis Journal of International Money and Finance B 3
2013 Corporate lobbying, political connections, and the bailout of banks Journal of Banking & Finance B 3
2012 Informed or speculative: Short selling analyst recommendations Journal of Banking & Finance B 2
2012 Short selling of ADRs and foreign market short-sale constraints Journal of Banking & Finance B 3
2011 Short selling around dividend announcements and ex-dividend days Journal of Corporate Finance B 3
2008 Flexibility and dividends Journal of Corporate Finance B 2