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Top Economists by Cohorts, as of August 2013

This page shows one of the many rankings computed with RePEc data. They are based on data about authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service, institutions listed on EDIRC, bibliographic data collected by RePEc, citation analysis performed by CitEc and popularity data compiled by LogEc. To find more rankings, historical data and detailed methodology, click here. Or see the ranking FAQ.

These rankings list the top 10 economists for each cohort, where the cohort year is determined by the year of their terminal degree as listed in the RePEc Genealogy (where missing information can be added after authentication by any user). For cohorts with less than 100 economists, one economist is ranked for every ten.

1964


RankAuthorScore
1Robert E. Lucas Jr.

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1.4

1966


RankAuthorScore
1George A. Akerlof

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

1.51

1967


RankAuthorScore
1Joseph E. Stiglitz

Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

1.17

1968


RankAuthorScore
1Thomas J. Sargent

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

1.66

1969


RankAuthorScore
1Robert F. Engle

Volatility Institute, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

1.35

1970


RankAuthorScore
1Robert J. Barro

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

1.14
2Stephen John Nickell

Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

3.31

1971


RankAuthorScore
1James J. Heckman

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

0.99
2Rüdiger Dornbusch †

2.52

1972


RankAuthorScore
1M Hashem Pesaran

Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

1.44
2Robert J. Shiller

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

2.19

1973


RankAuthorScore
1John B. Taylor

Stanford Center for International Development (SCID), Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

2.02
2Christopher A Pissarides

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

3.64
3John Whalley

Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

3.64

1974


RankAuthorScore
1Peter C. B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

1.55
2Elhanan Helpman

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

2.06
3Guillermo A. Calvo

School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

3.52

1975


RankAuthorScore
1Richard Blundell

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

1.4
2Jean-Jacques Laffont †

2.83
3George Borjas

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

4.03
4Jacques François Thisse

Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

5.92

1976


RankAuthorScore
1Lars E. O. Svensson

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

1.91
2Halbert White †

2.72
3Frederic Mishkin

Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

3.35
4Eric S. Maskin

School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

4.07
5Jonathan Eaton

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

4.93

1977


RankAuthorScore
1Olivier Blanchard

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

1.4
2Paul R. Krugman

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

2.32
3John Haltiwanger

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

3.44

1978


RankAuthorScore
1Mark L. Gertler

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

2.18
2Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

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

2.5
3Lars Peter Hansen

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

3.35
4Robert G. King

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

3.47

1979


RankAuthorScore
1Ben S. Bernanke

Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

2.05
2Maurice Obstfeld

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

2.08
3Barry Julian Eichengreen

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

2.39

1980


RankAuthorScore
1Kenneth S Rogoff

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

1.59
2Mark W. Watson

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

3.07
3René M. Stulz

Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (USA)

3.31
4Gene Grossman

International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

4.01
5Andrew J. Oswald

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

5.35

1981


RankAuthorScore
1Jean Tirole

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

1.39
2Drew Fudenberg

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

4.11
3Martin Ravallion

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

4.18
4Martin Eichenbaum

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

4.3
5Robert C. Feenstra

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

5.37

1982


RankAuthorScore
1Lawrence H. Summers

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

1.52
2Donald W. K. Andrews

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

2.52
3Lawrence J. Christiano

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

2.6
4B. Douglas Bernheim

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

4.85
5Torsten Persson

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

5.43

1983


RankAuthorScore
1David E. Card

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.56
2James H. Stock

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

2.85
3Michael Woodford

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

2.87
4James Poterba

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

3.4
5Kenneth R. French

Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

5.68
6Allen N. Berger

Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

6.64
7James Hamilton

Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA)

7.81

1984


RankAuthorScore
1John Y. Campbell

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

1.35
2N. Gregory Mankiw

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

2.48
3Oded Galor

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

3.99
4Guido Tabellini

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

4.22
5Anthony J. Venables

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom
Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

5.83

1985


RankAuthorScore
1Robert W. Vishny

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

2.42
2Lawrence F. Katz

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

2.47
3Dani Rodrik

School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

2.58
4William Easterly

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

4.47
5David Romer

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

5.57
6Michael B. Devereux

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

7.3

1986


RankAuthorScore
1Andrei Shleifer

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.17
2Alberto Alesina

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

2.76
3Tim Bollerslev

Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA)

6.16
4Jeremy C. Stein

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

6.37
5Andrew Kenan Rose

Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

6.76
6Francis X. Diebold

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

8.05
7Ernst Fehr

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

8.08
8Patrick Kehoe

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

8.51

1987


RankAuthorScore
1Ross Levine

Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

1.95
2Alan B. Krueger

Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

1.97
3Timothy J. Besley

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

3
4David Neumark

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

3.72
5Narayana Kocherlakota

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

8.69
6John Bound

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

8.94
7John C. Quiggin

School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Risk and Sustainable Management Group (RSMG), School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

8.98

1988


RankAuthorScore
1Carmen M. Reinhart

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.98
2Ricardo J. Caballero

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

2.16
3Janet Currie

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

5.3
4Matthew O. Jackson

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

5.75
5Orazio Attanasio

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

6.01
6Stephen Machin

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

7.15
7Fabio Canova

Department of Economics, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy

8.18
8Bronwyn Hughes Hall

United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research Institute of Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht, Netherlands

8.69
9Anne Case

Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

9.95

1989


RankAuthorScore
1Jordi Gali

Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), Barcelona, Spain

1.97
2Joshua D Angrist

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

2.56
3Sergio T Rebelo

Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

3.38
4Bruce E. Hansen

Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

5.85
5Ellen R. McGrattan

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

7.12
6Enrique G. Mendoza

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.05
7Marcel Fafchamps

Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

8.22
8Anil K Kashyap

Applied Economics Workshop, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

8.35
9Jakob de Haan

SOM Research Institute, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

8.47

1990


RankAuthorScore
1Michael P Keane

Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

3.08
2Asli Demirguc-Kunt

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

3.14
3David N. Weil

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

3.18
4Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

4.28
5Gilles Saint-Paul

Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

5.3
6Christopher Carroll

Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.41
7Harald Uhlig

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

6.6
8Athanasios Orphanides

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

7.57

1991


RankAuthorScore
1Raghuram G. Rajan

George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1.42
2David M. Cutler

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

3.72
3Stephen Morris

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

5.72
4Roberto Perotti

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

5.76
5Andrew B. Bernard

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

6.78
6Carl Shapiro

Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

6.97
7Pete Klenow

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

7.1
8Oliver Bruce Linton

Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

8.18
9Thierry A. Verdier

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

8.37

1992


RankAuthorScore
1Daron Acemoglu

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

1.02
2Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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

2.52
3Luigi Zingales

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

3.72
4Shang-Jin Wei

School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

5.95
5Geert Bekaert

Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

5.98
6Gordon Hanson

Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA)

8.86
7Frank Rafael Smets

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9.69
8Jonathan Gruber

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

10.31
9Glenn Ellison

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

10.48
10Giancarlo Corsetti

Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

12.08

1993


RankAuthorScore
1John Michael van Reenen

Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

2.15
2Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.15
3Charles I. Jones

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

3.89
4James Alan Robinson

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

5.47
5Serena Ng

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

7.35
6Casey Mulligan

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

7.76
7Mike Wright

Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

8.78
8Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Bendheim Center for Finance, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

9.22
9Matthew Kahn

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

9.38
10Lee Edward Ohanian

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

10.22

1994


RankAuthorScore
1Rafael La Porta

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.32
2David Isaac Laibson

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

2.91
3Steven Levitt

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

3.34
4Norman V. Loayza

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

5.7
5Martín Uribe

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

5.78
6Fabrizio Zilibotti

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
UBS International Center of Economics in Society, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

6.28
7John C. Williams

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA)
Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA)

6.8
8Christopher B. Barrett

Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

7.55
9Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

9.73
10Caroline Hoxby

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

10.17

1995


RankAuthorScore
1Philip Lane

Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

1.65
2Urs Fischbacher

Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

4.35
3Kjetil Storesletten

Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway

6.5
4Aart Kraay

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

6.82
5John Morgan

Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

7.64
6Austan Goolsbee

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

7.96
7Volker Wieland

Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

8.04
8David Lopez-Salido

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom

8.16
9Kevin Stiroh

Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (USA)

8.24
10Wolfgang Keller

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.51

1996


RankAuthorScore
1John List

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1.11
2Lutz Kilian

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

3.99
3Petra Elisabeth Todd

Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

4.98
4Gary Charness

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

5.51
5Robert Shimer

Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

6.12
6Rachel Griffith

ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom

6.7
7Stephen James Redding

International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

6.96
8Bruce Sacerdote

Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

9.04
9Jeffrey Andrew Smith

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

9.36
10Massimiliano Marcellino

Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy

9.39

1997


RankAuthorScore
1Simeon Djankov

Ministry of Finance, Government of Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria

1.94
2Richard S.J. Tol

Department of Economics, School of Business, Management and Economics, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

5.14
3Francesco Caselli

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

5.19
4David Greenaway

Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

5.56
5Jonathan Temple

School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

7.01
6Harrison Hong

7.35
7Giovanni Luca Violante

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

7.49
8Lucio Sarno

Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

7.53
9Sandra E. Black

Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas (USA)

8.25
10Ayhan Kose

International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

9.32

1998


RankAuthorScore
1Marianne Bertrand

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

2.31
2Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

2.82
3Sendhil Mullainathan

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

3.02
4Frank Schorfheide

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

5.06
5Romain Wacziarg

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

5.72
6Edward Nelson

Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

6.37
7Giovanni Peri

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

6.82
8Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie

International Centre for Innovation, Technology and Education Studies (iCite), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium

9.8
9Paola Sapienza

Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

10.24
10Jonathan Heathcote

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

12.22

1999


RankAuthorScore
1Thorsten Beck

CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands

2.1
2Esther Duflo

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

2.69
3David Autor

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

4.27
4Emmanuel Saez

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

4.38
5Xavier Gabaix

Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

4.88
6Armin Falk

Center for Economics and Neuroscience, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

6.37
7Lubos Pastor

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

7.97
8Holger Görg

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

9.29
9Markus K. Brunnermeier

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

10
10Andrew Ang

Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.08

2000


RankAuthorScore
1Marc J. Melitz

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

2.52
2Enrico Moretti

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

2.77
3Edward Andrew Miguel

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

4.25
4Thierry Mayer

Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po, Paris, France

4.66
5Pierpaolo Benigno

Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Roma, Italy

6.52
6Michael Ehrmann

Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

7.48
7Victor Chernozhukov

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

8.52
8Xiaobo Zhang

China Center for Economic Research (CCER), Peking University, Beijing, China
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

9.06
9Steven Stillman

Department of Economics, School of Business, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

9.13
10Matthias Doepke

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

9.43

2001


RankAuthorScore
1Viral V. Acharya

Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

2.7
2Nicholas Bloom

Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

2.89
3David McKenzie

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

3.45
4Peter H. Egger

Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom

3.62
5Justin Wolfers

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

4.09
6Ludger Woessmann

ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany

4.18
7Alois Stutzer

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

4.68
8George-Marios Angeletos

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

7.15
9Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

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

8.39
10Sascha O. Becker

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

10.36

2002


RankAuthorScore
1Dean S. Karlan

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

2.05
2Marcel Fratzscher

DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany

2.29
3Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

3.18
4Stefano DellaVigna

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

5.12
5Ulrike Malmendier

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

5.94
6Barbara Sianesi

ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom

9.13
7Muriel Niederle

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

9.5
8Gert Peersman

Vakgroep Financiële Economie, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

9.57
9Hanno Lustig

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

9.76
10Matteo Iacoviello

Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

10.52

2003


RankAuthorScore
1Raj Chetty

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

2.23
2Axel Dreher

Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

2.57
3Pol Antras

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

3.09
4Benno Torgler

School of Economics and Finance, Business School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

4.59
5Uwe Sunde

Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München, Germany

4.82
6Imran Rasul

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

6.81
7Jesse Rothstein

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

7.47
8Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

7.89
9Morten Ørregaard Nielsen

Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

10.19
10Jianjun Miao

Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China

10.44

2004


RankAuthorScore
1Ricardo Reis

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

1.73
2Domenico Giannone

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

4.13
3Paresh Kumar Narayan

School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

4.56
4Giorgio E. Primiceri

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

5.45
5Michael Golosov

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

5.86
6Refet S. Gürkaynak

İktisat Bölümü, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey

6.18
7Andrew Keith Leigh

Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

6.36
8Dirk Czarnitzki

Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

7.65
9Andrei A. Levchenko

Economics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.29
10Gauti B. Eggertsson

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

10.22

2005


RankAuthorScore
1Nathan Nunn

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

2.1
2Jesse Shapiro

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

3.27
3James Jinwoo Choi

School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

5.75
4Adam Szeidl

Department of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

6.18
5Rangan Gupta

Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

6.4
6Thomas Chaney

Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France

7.4
7Toshihiro Okubo

Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

7.85
8Stephen P. Ryan

Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas (USA)

9.19
9Michael Ostrovsky

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

9.36
10Pedro S. Martins

School of Business Management, Queen Mary, London, United Kingdom

9.4

2006


RankAuthorScore
1Francesco Trebbi

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

2.22
2Emmanuel Farhi

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

3.24
3Emi Nakamura

Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

4.69
4Robert Inklaar

Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC), Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

6.19
5Ben Greiner

School of Economics, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

6.48
6Andrea Filippo Presbitero

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà", Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
Money and Finance Research group (Mo.Fi.R.), Ancona, Italy

8.46
7Nattavudh Powdthavee

Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

8.79
8Fabio Milani

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

8.97
9d'Artis Kancs

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Sevilla, Spain

9.2
10Alexander Daniel Klemm

International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

9.3

2007


RankAuthorScore
1Yuriy Gorodnichenko

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

1.49
2Parag Pathak

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

3.04
3James B. Ang

Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

5.45
4Costas Arkolakis

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

5.54
5Helen Simpson

Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

6.11
6Gaëtan J.A. Nicodème

General Directorate Taxation and Custom Union, European Commission, Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium

6.76
7Sagiri Kitao

Department of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York (USA)

7.73
8Olivier Coibion

Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)
Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, Texas (USA)

11.51
9Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

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

12.84
10Michele Lenza

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

13.18

2008


RankAuthorScore
1Raffaella Sadun

Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

3.32
2Deniz Igan

Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

4.59
3Andreas Peichl

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany

4.75
4Peter Huber

Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, Austria

6.23
5Juan M. Sanchez

Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

7.02
6Michael E. Waugh

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

7.03
7Tomasz Strzalecki

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

7.16
8Climent Quintana-Domeque

Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

7.64
9Stelios Michalopoulos

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

7.92
10Angus C. Chu

Management School, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

8.37

2009


RankAuthorScore
1Michael Shields

Centre for Health Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

1.46
2Oleg Itskhoki

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

3.44
3Quamrul Ashraf

Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)
Center for Development Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

4.46
4Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto

Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), Barcelona, Spain

5.29
5Greg Warren Kaplan

Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom

5.77
6Marta Banbura

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

6.13
7Roman M. Sheremeta

Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California (USA)
Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California (USA)

6.63
8Matthew John Wakefield

Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

6.91
9Maximo Rossi

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

9.84
10David Dorn

Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain

10.82

2010


RankAuthorScore
1Thomas Johannes Dohmen

Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

1.34
2Markus Brückner

Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

3.23
3Daniel Dias

Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA)

4.52
4Johanna Wallenius

Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

6.47
5Andrew Shephard

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

6.87
6Johannes F. Schmieder

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

7.58
7Dimitris Korobilis

Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

7.97
8Loukas Karabarbounis

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.27
9Leonardo Bursztyn

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

9.06
10Shinsuke Ikeda

Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

9.74

2011


RankAuthorScore
1Minseong Kim

School of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

2.91
2Javier Bianchi

Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

3.12
3Alexander Wolitzky

5.04
4Stefano Giglio

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

5.78
5Luca Sessa

Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy

5.84
6Marie-Louise Leroux

Département des Sciences Économiques, École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Canada

6.59
7Peter A. Savelyev

Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

7.23
8Dario Caldara

Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section, Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

8.63
9Logan T. Lewis

Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

10.18
10Dany Jaimovich

Abteilung Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung und International Wirtschaftspolitik, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

10.46

2012


RankAuthorScore
1Joshua D. Gottlieb

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

1.8
2Ian Louis Dew-Becker

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

2.66
3Tuck Cheong Tang

School of Business, Monash University, Sunway, Malaysia

3.97
4Ine Van Robays

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

5.64
5Derek Yu

Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

7.08
6Johan Fourie

Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en Bestuurswetenskappe, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

7.14
7Joao Tovar Jalles

Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France

7.43
8William Fabius Lincoln

International Economics Department, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

8.67
9Gunilla Pettersson

10.63
10Joanna Janczura

Hugo Steinhaus Center for Stochastic Methods, Politechnika Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland

10.67

2013


RankAuthorScore
1Sean M. Dougherty

Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France

1.68
2Erkan Erdogdu

Enerji Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu, Government of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey

3.14
3Adam Misiorek

Instytut Organizacji i Zarządzania, Politechnika Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland

5.09
4Christopher Tonetti

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

5.65
5Maria Osipenko

Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie (ISÖ), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

5.7
6Annabelle Krause

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

6.18
7Ugo Troiano

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

6.31
8Christian Seiler

ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany

6.69

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