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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Corporate Finance, as of April 2008

Top 5% institutions in the field of Corporate Finance

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-CFN (Corporate Finance).

Rank	Score	Institution
1	1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	2.31	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.72	CESifo, München
4	3.73	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
5	5.35	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
6	6.68	Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
7	7.21	Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago
8	7.6	Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
9	8.65	Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
10	11.06	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich
(11)	12.17	Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
10	12.17	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
12	12.56	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
13	13.34	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
14	14.25	Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
15	15.69	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
16	17.93	Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich
(17)	20.03	Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
17	21.56	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
18	22.06	Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
(19)	24.77	Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
19	25.32	IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
(20)	25.38	Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
(19)	25.38	Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
20	27.14	Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto
21	27.5	Stern School of Business, New York University, New York City
(22)	28.6	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
22	28.64	Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Oxford
23	29.43	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto
24	29.75	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
25	30.01	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington
26	30.66	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
27	31.33	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
28	33.02	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
29	37.18	World Bank Group, Washington
30	37.86	Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam
31	37.97	CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant), Tilburg
32	39.45	Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven
(33)	39.54	Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
(33)	40.25	Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
33	40.92	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
34	41.77	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
35	42.45	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid
36	42.72	Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston
(37)	43.46	Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
37	43.6	Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
38	44.54	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
39	44.72	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
40	44.73	Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham
(41)	46.16	Department of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas-Austin, Austin
40	46.16	McCombs School of Business, University of Texas-Austin, Austin
(42)	46.57	Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston
(42)	49.01	Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York City
42	49.02	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
43	50.71	William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester
44	53.59	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Fisciano
(45)	53.95	Department of Finance, Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
44	53.95	Faculty of Business Administration, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
46	54.49	Paul Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine, Irvine

Top 5% authors in the field of Corporate Finance

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.