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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Microfinance, as of January 2008

Top 5% institutions in the field of Microfinance

The scores of institutions in each field are determined by a weighted sum of all authors affiliated with the respective institutions. The weights are determined, for each author, by the proportion of all working papers announced in NEP that have also been announced in NEP-MFD (Microfinance).

Rank	Score	Institution
1	1.18	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	2.58	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.69	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
4	5.32	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
5	5.37	World Bank Group, Washington
6	5.82	Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
7	7.19	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
8	7.61	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
9	8.07	Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(9)	8.07	Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(10)	8.52	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
10	11.96	Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
11	13.31	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
12	15	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
13	16.23	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington
(14)	18.21	Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
(14)	18.42	Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
14	18.52	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
15	18.96	Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford
16	19.25	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
(17)	19.93	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
17	20.79	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
18	21.02	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
19	21.27	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
20	22.77	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
(21)	24.05	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
(21)	26.4	Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
(21)	30.07	Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
21	31.24	Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill
22	31.72	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
(23)	31.81	Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group, Washington
23	34.62	Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City
24	35	Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
25	35.92	Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam
26	36.25	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
27	39.15	Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol, Bristol
28	40.45	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
29	41.36	Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover

Top 5% authors in the field of Microfinance

Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration by Ivan Kumanov, Minsk, Belarus.
• Institutions database and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel, Long Island University.