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Top 12.5% New England (United States), as of September 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. For New England (United States), these are 141 institutions and 1278 authors.

Top 12.5% institutions in New England (United States)

RankW.RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1[1]Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.026249.19
2[2]National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.0247761.4
3[3]Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.954133.08
4[4]Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

4.236235.46
5[5]Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

5.645230.99
6[6]Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

6.255343.63
7[7]Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

6.964137.61
8[8]Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.123630.97
9[9]Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.453427.12
10[11]Department of Economics, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

9.194740.92
11[10]Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

10.53027.72
12[12]Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

10.95209.39
13[13]School of Management, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

13.152520.08
---[---]Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

14.27118.1
14[14]Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)

16.912923.84
15[15]Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

17.92017.28
---[---]Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

18.4176.86
---[---]Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

19.1242.65
16[17]Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

19.572420.53
17[16]Department of Economics, Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts (USA)

19.741916.97

Top 12.5% authors in New England (United States)

RankW.RankAuthorScore
1[1]Andrei Shleifer

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

2.12
2[2]Robert J. Barro

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

3.43
3[5]Daron Acemoglu

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

3.54
4[6]John Y. Campbell

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

6.04
5[7]Kenneth S Rogoff

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

6.63
6[8]Martin S. Feldstein

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

7.14
7[9]Olivier Blanchard

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

7.23
8[4]Peter C. B. Phillips

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

8.43
9[12]Lawrence H. Summers

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

10.78
10[14]Elhanan Helpman

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

12.61
11[17]James H. Stock

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

12.75
12[16]N. Gregory Mankiw

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

13.39
13[23]Carmen M. Reinhart

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

14.02
14[19]Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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

14.43
15[22]Donald W. K. Andrews

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

14.72
16[24]Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

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

15.51
17[11]Christopher F Baum

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

16.17
18[26]James Poterba

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

17.83
19[21]Drew Fudenberg

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

19.61
20[29]Lawrence F. Katz

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

21.11
21[28]Robert G. King

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

21.49
22[32]Jerry A. Hausman

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

22.81
23[37]Kenneth R. French

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

24.42
24[34]Whitney Newey

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

24.83
25[52]Richard J. Zeckhauser

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

24.97
26[42]Robert J. Shiller

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

25.34
27[33]Peter A. Diamond

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

25.36
28[13]Alberto Alesina

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

25.91
29[44]Oded Galor

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

26.94
30[41]Rafael La Porta

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

27.72
31[48]Ricardo J. Caballero

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

28.08
32[45]Jeremy C. Stein

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

28.44
33[47]Alvin E. Roth

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

30.35
34[69]Martin Shubik

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

30.82
35[53]Mark R. Rosenzweig

Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

31.42
36[62]Pierre Perron

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

31.99
37[59]Robert C. Merton

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

32.01
38[65]Oliver D. Hart

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

37.14
39[71]Julio Rotemberg

Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

37.64
40[73]George Borjas

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

41.8
41[72]Martin L. Weitzman

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

41.98
42[76]Larry G. Epstein

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

42.72
43[80]David M. Cutler

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

43.11
44[81]David N. Weil

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

43.22
45[86]Jonathan Eaton

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

43.26
46[75]Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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

44.16
47[92]William D. Nordhaus

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

44.23
48[89]Peter Howitt

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

44.31
49[27]Richard B. Freeman

Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

47.49
50[96]Esther Duflo

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

50.13
51[105]Amartya Sen

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

52.04
52[20]David E. Card

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

53.28
53[94]Bengt Holmstrom

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

53.73
54[56]Joshua D Angrist

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

54.56
55[95]David Isaac Laibson

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

55.23
56[109]Josh Lerner

Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

55.39
57[98]Claudia Goldin

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

56.36
58[107]Joseph G. Altonji

Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

57.06
59[101]Marc J. Melitz

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

57.31
60[113]Simeon Djankov

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

60.94
61[108]Jonathan Gruber

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

61.72
62[115]James Alan Robinson

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

61.74
63[121]Andrew W. Lo

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

62.02
64[118]Andrew B. Bernard

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

64.94
65[111]Glenn Ellison

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

66.56
66[125]David Wise

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

67.42
67[131]Robert S. Pindyck

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

67.48
68[128]James E. Anderson

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

68.06
69[141]Dilip Mookherjee

Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

68.14
70[54]Michael C. Jensen

Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

69.19
71[82]Simon Johnson

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

69.35
72[132]David Autor

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

71.12
73[144]Gary Gorton

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

71.59
74[134]Ray C. Fair

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

72.26
75[145]Neil Shephard

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

73.09
76[150]Richard Schmalensee

Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

73.74
77[136]Sendhil Mullainathan

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

77.09
78[38]Florencio 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)

80.58
79[164]T. N. Srinivasan

Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

81.17
80[166]Edward J. Kane

Finance Department, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

81.47
81[174]T. Paul Schultz

Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

82.23
82[181]John Roemer

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

82.37
83[149]Robert Gibbons

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

82.46
84[120]Athanasios Orphanides

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

82.58
85[172]Arthur Lewbel

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

85.83
86[180]William N. Goetzmann

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

85.88
87[167]Robert M. Solow

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

86.6
88[156]Samuel Kortum

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

87.04
89[153]Simon Gilchrist

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

87.33
90[170]Jeffrey C. Fuhrer

Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

88.37
91[186]Lant Pritchett

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

90.73
92[63]Campbell R. Harvey

Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

91.96
93[176]Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

92.7
94[194]Paul Joskow

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

93.67
95[214]Dean S. Karlan

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

93.78
96[191]Peter N. Ireland

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

94.15
97[233]Louis Putterman

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

94.73
98[192]Bruce Sacerdote

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

96.2
99[203]Jonathan Skinner

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

98.91
100[179]Michael Whinston

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

99.13
101[78]John H. Cochrane

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

101.71
102[216]Roberto Rigobon

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

101.77
103[117]Enrique G. Mendoza

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

102.84
104[198]Susanto Basu

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

104.79
105[201]Doug Staiger

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

105.07
106[206]Eytan Sheshinski

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

105.55
107[182]Jerry Green

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

106.32
108[222]Steven Shavell

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

107.68
109[189]Marianne Baxter

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

108.16
110[227]Raj Chetty

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

109.88
111[225]Kenneth Neil Kuttner

Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

110.29
112[228]Andrew Metrick

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

111.68
113[245]Ricardo Hausmann

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

113.65
114[87]Robert M. Townsend

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

113.68
115[259]David Canning

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

115.28
116[230]Peter K. Schott

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

115.67
117[220]Pol Antras

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

116.25
118[268]Eric Rosengren

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

116.54
119[248]Rafael Di Tella

Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

117.26
120[284]David Colander

Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (USA)

117.63
121[243]Steven Berry

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

118.89
122[251]Peter Gottschalk

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

120.16
123[272]Yannis M. Ioannides

Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (USA)

120.89
124[271]Eric Michel Renault

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

124.93
125[261]Michael Greenstone

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

124.96
126[281]Douglas A. Irwin

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

128.59
127[187]Fabio Schiantarelli

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

128.6
128[256]Jeffrey B. Liebman

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

131.5
129[255]Owen A. Lamont

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

131.62
130[263]Brigitte C. Madrian

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

133.14
131[265]Alan L. Gustman

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

133.43
132[277]Lucian Bebchuk

John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard School of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

133.79
133[314]Robert Owen Mendelsohn

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

134.32
134[294]Shyam Sunder

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

134.54
135[116]Christopher Carroll

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

135.4
136[292]David Bloom

Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

135.57
137[279]Jeffrey A Miron

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

136.09
138[270]Larry Samuelson

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

136.48
139[347]Thomas Miceli

Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (USA)

136.99
140[283]Christopher R. Udry

Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

137.17
141[297]Alberto Abadie

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

139.45
142[235]Kevin Lang

Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

140.5
143[305]Joseph Newhouse

Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

142.67
144[303]Robert Andrew Margo

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

143.48
145[302]Louis Kaplow

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

144.26
146[301]George-Marios Angeletos

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

145.17
147[312]Joe Peek

Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

146.28
148[290]Deborah J. Lucas

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

146.34
149[148]Stephen Cecchetti

Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)

147.99
150[306]Kristin Forbes

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

149.79
151[129]Adam Jaffe

Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand

151.22
152[356]Peter J. Montiel

Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

152.37
153[316]Dirk Bergemann

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

153.49
154[325]Richard J. Murnane

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

154.47
155[320]Tayfun Sönmez

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

155.19
156[319]Gilbert Metcalf

Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (USA)

156.03
157[336]Erik Brynjolfsson

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

156.56
158[323]Nina Pavcnik

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

157.52
159[55]Eric S. Maskin

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

158.55

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