the corpus

Corpus stats

Quant finance, grounded in the broader economics literature.

15,153
Browsable papers
14,976
Searchable
88.8%
Full text
13,454 of 15,153
11.2%
Reference entry
1,699 of 15,153

Composition

Browsable Listable, filterable, on the cluster map. 15,153
Full text Parsed body present. 13,454
Reference entry Metadata, abstract, link out. 1,699
Searchable Summarized and embedded. 14,976

By source

7 sources
  • EconStor 8,058
  • arXiv 2,820
  • RePEc 2,026
  • OpenAlex 1,458
  • BIS 390
  • NBER 387
  • manual_upload 14

Papers by year

2005 onward
  • 2005 195
  • 2006 218
  • 2007 189
  • 2008 194
  • 2009 251
  • 2010 243
  • 2011 267
  • 2012 267
  • 2013 301
  • 2014 320
  • 2015 334
  • 2016 359
  • 2017 355
  • 2018 396
  • 2019 406
  • 2020 630
  • 2021 758
  • 2022 1,307
  • 2023 1,401
  • 2024 2,089
  • 2025 2,114
  • 2026 1,255

3,730 papers predate 2015.

Fields

approximate
  • Machine learning ~880
  • Market microstructure ~814
  • Emerging markets ~696
  • Risk management ~514
  • Behavioral finance ~489
  • Portfolio construction ~335
  • Factor and signals ~319
  • Volatility and options ~264
  • Optimization and control ~254
  • Computational methods ~221
  • Trading and execution ~217
  • Credit risk ~172
  • Time series and regimes ~172

Grouped from summary themes into quant fields; papers often carry several themes, so counts overlap. The broader economics themes in the corpus are grouped further down.

Instruments

approximate
  • Equities ~1,915
  • Bonds ~659
  • Equity indices ~501
  • FX ~460
  • Futures ~411
  • Options ~394
  • Commodities ~380
  • Crypto ~322
  • Credit ~309
  • Swaps ~234
  • Government bonds ~229
  • Multi-asset ~225
  • Banking ~213
  • Corporate bonds ~210

Instrument buckets nest and papers carry several tags, so counts overlap: an S&P 500 paper counts under S&P 500, Equity indices, and Equities. 17 smaller buckets sit below the cut, and about 2,742 tagged papers match none of the buckets.

Broader economics

approximate

The general-economics literature the quant work builds on.

  • Econometrics ~1,183
  • Behavioral economics ~864
  • Macro and monetary policy ~766
  • Public policy and regulation ~758
  • Organizations and operations ~704
  • Political economy ~523
  • Labor and human capital ~450
  • Trade and regional economics ~431
  • Development economics ~429
  • Game theory and mechanisms ~392
  • Environment and agriculture ~392
  • Research methods ~322
  • Corporate finance ~259
  • Health and education ~186

Grouped from summary themes; counts overlap the same way the fields do. About 1,067 more tags sit in smaller topics, and themes with fewer than 30 papers are not counted.

Canon coverage

The canon is a fixed reading list of 151 foundational quant-finance papers, the classics the literature keeps citing. This measures how many of them the corpus holds in some form.

111 of 151
Canonical papers in corpus
73.5%
19
Close matches to adjudicate
21
Not found

DB figures measured 2026-10-28 against the shared library only (tenant_id IS NULL, status accepted); canon coverage refreshed 2026-07-31. Rendered at build time from corpus-stats.json, which is regenerated before each deploy.

Methodology

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