| Finance and growth: Schumpeter might be right RG King, R Levine The quarterly journal of economics 108 (3), 717-737, 1993 | 14815 | 1993 |
| Financial development and economic growth: views and agenda R Levine Journal of economic literature 35 (2), 688-726, 1997 | 13628 | 1997 |
| A sensitivity analysis of cross-country growth regressions R Levine, D Renelt The American economic review, 942-963, 1992 | 10600 | 1992 |
| Finance and Growth: Theory and Evidence R Levine Handbook of Economic Growth 1, 2005 | 9881 | 2005 |
| Stock markets, banks, and economic growth R Levine, S Zervos American economic review, 537-558, 1998 | 9150 | 1998 |
| Africa's growth tragedy: policies and ethnic divisions W Easterly, R Levine The quarterly journal of economics, 1203-1250, 1997 | 8633 | 1997 |
| Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and causes R Levine, N Loayza, T Beck Journal of monetary Economics 46 (1), 31-77, 2000 | 7515 | 2000 |
| Finance, entrepreneurship and growth RG King, R Levine Journal of Monetary economics 32 (3), 513-542, 1993 | 6571 | 1993 |
| Finance and the Sources of Growth T Beck, R Levine, N Loayza Journal of financial economics 58 (1-2), 261-300, 2000 | 6157 | 2000 |
| Bank governance, regulation and risk taking L Laeven, R Levine Journal of financial economics 93 (2), 259-275, 2009 | 4548 | 2009 |
| Bank regulation and supervision: what works best? JR Barth, G Caprio Jr, R Levine Journal of Financial intermediation 13 (2), 205-248, 2004 | 4474* | 2004 |
| Stock markets, banks, and growth: Panel evidence T Beck, R Levine Journal of Banking & Finance 28 (3), 423-442, 2004 | 3569 | 2004 |
| Tropics, germs, and crops: how endowments influence economic development W Easterly, R Levine Journal of monetary economics 50 (1), 3-39, 2003 | 3363 | 2003 |
| Finance, inequality and the poor T Beck, A Demirgüç-Kunt, R Levine Journal of economic growth 12, 27-49, 2007 | 3203 | 2007 |
| Bank-based or market-based financial systems: which is better? R Levine Journal of financial intermediation 11 (4), 398-428, 2002 | 3095 | 2002 |
| Does Foreign Direct Investment Accelerate Economic Growth M Carkovic Does Foreign Investment Promote Development, 2005 | 2933 | 2005 |
| What have we learned from a decade of empirical research on growth? It's Not Factor Accumulation: Stylized Facts and Growth Models W Easterly, R Levine The world bank economic review 15 (2), 177-219, 2001 | 2847 | 2001 |
| Big bad banks? The winners and losers from bank deregulation in the United States T Beck, R Levine, A Levkov The journal of finance 65 (5), 1637-1667, 2010 | 2517 | 2010 |
| A new database on financial development and structure T Beck, A Demirgüç-Kunt, R Levine SSRN, 2016 | 2285 | 2016 |
| Stock market development and long-run growth R Levine, S Zervos The world bank economic review 10 (2), 323-339, 1996 | 2279 | 1996 |
