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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Central & South America, as of June 2012

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Central & South America

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-LAM (Central & South America).
RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1.135042.89
2Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.993327.41
3Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

3.57666.97
(4)Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

4.522217.81
(4)Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

4.522823.31
4Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.146045.22
5Department of Economics, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

7.61714.28
6Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.675631.21
7Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

9.918765.77
(7)Afdeling Ruimtelijke Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

9.913021.89
(8)Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

13.16104.44
8Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

13.454735.77
9World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

13.55336278.59
10Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

13.677051.02
11Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität

Linz, Austria

14.523727.14
12Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

15.426148.36
13Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

16.973832.78
14Banco Central de Chile

Santiago, Chile

19.094541.85
15Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

19.552521.59
(15)Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

19.5564.42
16Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

20.627860.67
17Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

22.155030.47
18School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

23.22513.04
19National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

23.3245938.61
20Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

24.084317.16
21Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

24.155844.61
22Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität

Kiel, Germany

24.682516.99
23Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

24.784835.47
24Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

27.343634.91
25Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

27.883525.48
(26)Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

28.04131110.86
26Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

29.63933.73
(27)Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

29.682523.91
27Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

29.744033.69
(28)Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

32.275238.28
28Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

33.394536.47
29Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

33.783631.57
(30)Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

34.052622.46
30International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

36.42288244.27
31Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

40.24435.5
(32)Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

41.771310.02
32Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

42.025240.84
33Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

43.688068.26
34CRC "Armut, Ungleichheit und Wachstum in Entwicklungsländern", Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

44.1552.7
35Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

45.191.71
36Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

46.417054.76
37Department of Economics, Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

482520.11
(38)Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

50.3842.64
38Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

52.77127.87
39Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

53.5265.05
40London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

55.69221151.43
41Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

56.452717.65
42Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés

Buenos Aires, Argentina

56.751410.06
43Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

57.183425.66
44Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

59.62520.72
45Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

60.613323.58
(46)Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

61.38117.66
(46)Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (CeGE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

61.6431.04
(46)Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

61.98159.62
46Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

62.322115.75
(47)Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

62.442114.87
(47)Centro de Investigación en Finanzas, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

63.9233
47Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

63.944330.84
48Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

64.245941.22
48Department of Economics, University of Haifa

Haifa, Israel

64.241311.57
50International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

65.68121106.71
51Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

66.18138116.75
52Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

66.412213.55
(52)Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

66.4162.6
53Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

67.072928.82
54Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

67.61174148.44
55Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

67.82109.89
56Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

72.48143110.33
57Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

72.812419.07
58Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

74.583219.74
(59)Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

75.382317.42
(59)Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

75.764027.32
59Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

77.074032.91
(60)Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

79.332420.78
60Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

80.591512.69
61Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

80.893933.41
62Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

82.973128.94
(63)Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

83.7643.13
63Department of Economics, Korea University

Seoul, South Korea

85.791915.83
64Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara, California (USA)

85.963328.09
65Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

86.391513.17
(66)Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

88.315436.52
66Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Rimini, Italy

88.448813.22
67Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

90.0713993.9
(68)Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

90.5284.47
(68)Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

90.835245.8
68Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

91.31611.61
69Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

91.53150124.03
70Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

91.891010
71School of Business, Bond University

Gold Coast, Australia

92.2143.34
(72)European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

93.085129.88
72Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

94.08195104.81
73Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

94.723934.59
74Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

97.582521.8
75Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

98.034433.86
76Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

99.43145.58
77Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

99.513733.7
78Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania (USA)

101.211917.12
79Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

104.163429.58
(80)Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

104.778664.4
80Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

104.8460568.65
(81)Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

104.8832.19
81Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

105.141814.69
82Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

106.282420

Top 10% authors in the field of Central & South America

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RankAuthorScore
1Daron Acemoglu

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1
2James Tobin †

,

2.45
3Lawrence H. Summers

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.96
4Sebastian Edwards

Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA)

5.47
5Dani Rodrik

Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.67
6William Baumol

Department of Economics, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

7.44
7Jose De Gregorio

Banco Central de Chile, Santiago, Chile

7.63
8Lawrence R. Klein

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

8.82
9Guido Tabellini

Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy

10.21
10Jere Richard Behrman

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

10.56
11Alberto Alesina

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.6
12Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.76
13Andrew Murray Weiss

Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

13.32
14Alejandro Gaviria

Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

13.99
15Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

14.46
16Ricardo Hausmann

Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

17.51
17James Alan Robinson

Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

17.51
18Keith Blackburn

Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

20.69
19Torsten Persson

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

20.98
20Ernesto Schargrodsky

Centro de Investigación en Finanzas, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

21.05
21Sebastian Galiani

Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA)

23.82
22Avner Bar-ilan

Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

24.11
23Mariano Tommasi

Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina

25.53
24Edward Andrew Miguel

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

25.78
25Andrew Foster

Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

26.65
26Norman V. Loayza

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

26.95
27Mauricio Cardenas

Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

28.07
28James Schmitz

Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

28.2
29Rodney Edward Falvey

School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

31.18
30Jeffrey Gale Williamson

,

31.75
31Leonardo C. Gasparini

Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

31.95
32Gary Fields

School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

34.69
33Luis Servén

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

35.93
34Raquel Bernal

Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

36.02
35Cesar A. Calderon

World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

36.16
36Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

36.47
37Alberto Chong

École de Développement International et de Mondialisation, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

38.08
38Brian R. Copeland

Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

38.77
39Dante Contreras

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

40.12
40Alain de Janvry

Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

41.41
41Carmen Pages

Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

41.42
42Carol Ann Rogers

Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

44.36

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