The good people at the Open Syllabus Project looked at over a million syllabi and extracted citations and other metadata from them, including textbooks and journal articles.
The top general book in finance is “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”, the top textbook is “Corporate Finance” by Ross and the most assigned journal article is “Capital Structure” by Stewart Myers. For complete results, please read on.
Most popular general books
| Title | Author |
| A Random Walk Down Wall Street | Malkiel, Burton Gordon |
| Irrational Exuberance | Shiller, Robert J. |
| When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management | Lowenstein, Roger |
| Capital Ideas : The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street | Bernstein, Peter L. |
| Inventing Money : The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It | Dunbar, Nicholas |
Most popular textbooks
| Text | Author |
| Corporate Finance | Ross, Stephen A. |
| Investments | Bodie, Zvi |
| Principles of Corporate Finance | Brealey, Richard A. |
| Fundamentals of Corporate Finance | Ross, Stephen A. |
| Fundamentals of Financial Management | Brigham, Eugene F. |
| Essentials of Investments | Bodie, Zvi |
| Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives | Hull, John, 1946 |
| Real Estate | Case, Frederick E. |
| Financial Management : Theory and Practice | Brigham, Eugene F. |
| Corporate Finance | Berk, Jonathan B. |
| Fundamentals of Corporate Finance | Brealey, Richard A. |
| Financial Modeling | Benninga, Simon |
| Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management | Reilly, Frank K. |
| Analysis for Financial Management | Higgins, Robert C. |
| Personal Financial Planning | Gitman, Lawrence J. |
| International Financial Management | Eun, Cheol S. |
| Multinational Business Finance | Eiteman, David K. |
| Intermediate Financial Management | Brigham, Eugene F. |
| Multinational Financial Management | Shapiro, Alan C. |
| Asset Pricing | Cochrane, John H. |
| Principles of Managerial Finance | Gitman, Lawrence J. |
| Foundations of Financial Management | Block, Stanley B. |
| Financial Reporting & Analysis | Revsine, Lawrence |
| Derivatives Markets | McDonald, Robert L. |
| Financial Markets and Institutions | Madura, Jeff |
| An Introduction to Derivatives and Risk Management | Chance, Don M. |
| The Econometrics of Financial Markets | Campbell, John Y. |
| Agency Costs of Free Cash Flow, Corporate Finance and Takeovers | Jensen, Michael C. |
| Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets | Hull, John, 1946 |
| Spreadsheet Modeling in Corporate Finance | Holden, Craig W. |
Most popular journal articles
| Title | Author | Journal |
| Capital Structure | Myers, Stewart C. | The Journal of Economic Perspectives |
| Debt and Taxes | Miller, Merton H. | The Journal of Finance |
| The Capital Structure Puzzle | Myers, Stewart C. | The Journal of Finance |
| Portfolio Selection | Markowitz, Harry | The Journal of Finance |
| Capital Asset Prices: A Theory of Market Equilibrium Under Conditions of Risk | Sharpe, William F. | The Journal of Finance |
| Are Investors Reluctant to Realize Their Losses | Odean, Terrance | The Journal of Finance |
| Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work | Fama, Eugene F. | The Journal of Finance |
| An Intertemporal Capital Asset Pricing Model | Merton, Robert C. | Econometrica |
| Long-Run Stock Returns: Participating in the Real Economy | Ibbotson, Roger G., Chen, Peng | Financial Analysts Journal |
| Investor Psychology and Asset Pricing | Hirshleifer, David | The Journal of Finance |
| Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies | Fama, Eugene F., FrencH, Kenneth R. | The Journal of Finance |
| A Yield Premium Model for the High-Yield Debt Market | Altman, Edward I. | Financial Analysts Journal |
| The Long-Run Performance of Initial Public Offerings | Ritter, Jay R. | The Journal of Finance |
| Risk, Return, and Equilibrium | Fama, Eugene F. | Journal of Political Economy |
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