the corpus

Corpus stats

Quant finance, grounded in the broader economics literature.

15,139
Browsable papers
13,944
Searchable
88.9%
Full text
13,454 of 15,139
11.1%
Reference entry
1,685 of 15,139

Composition

Browsable Listable, filterable, on the cluster map. 15,139
Full text Parsed body present. 13,454
Reference entry Metadata, abstract, link out. 1,685
Searchable Summarized and embedded. 13,944

By source

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

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 ~873
  • Market microstructure ~770
  • Emerging markets ~654
  • Risk management ~505
  • Behavioral finance ~470
  • Factor and signals ~346
  • Portfolio construction ~325
  • Volatility and options ~262
  • Optimization and control ~255
  • Computational methods ~222
  • Trading and execution ~209
  • Time series and regimes ~172
  • Credit risk ~170

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 ~1,850
  • Bonds ~637
  • Equity indices ~490
  • FX ~448
  • Futures ~393
  • Options ~387
  • Commodities ~360
  • Crypto ~319
  • Credit ~304
  • Swaps ~228
  • Multi-asset ~223
  • Government bonds ~222
  • Banking ~211
  • Bitcoin ~207

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 2,671 tagged papers match none of the buckets.

Broader economics

approximate

The general-economics literature the quant work builds on.

  • Econometrics ~1,152
  • Behavioral economics ~815
  • Macro and monetary policy ~719
  • Public policy and regulation ~702
  • Organizations and operations ~660
  • Political economy ~475
  • Development economics ~390
  • Labor and human capital ~379
  • Game theory and mechanisms ~359
  • Trade and regional economics ~348
  • Environment and agriculture ~318
  • Research methods ~306
  • Corporate finance ~245
  • Health and education ~169

Grouped from summary themes; counts overlap the same way the fields do. About 430 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 2026-08-24 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.

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