Advanced Search
MyIDEAS: Login

Top Economists by Cohorts, as of July 2014

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.

1961


RankAuthorScore
1Daniel Kahneman

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

1.96

1964


RankAuthorScore
1Robert E. Lucas Jr.

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

1.36

1966


RankAuthorScore
1George A. Akerlof

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

1.49

1967


RankAuthorScore
1Joseph E. Stiglitz

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

1.15

1968


RankAuthorScore
1Thomas J. Sargent

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

1.7

1969


RankAuthorScore
1Robert F. Engle III

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

1.45
2Richard B. Freeman

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

1.89

1970


RankAuthorScore
1Robert J. Barro

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

1.2
2Stephen John Nickell

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

3.56

1971


RankAuthorScore
1James J. Heckman

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

0.99
2Rüdiger Dornbusch †

2.66
3Alan S. Blinder

Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

2.72

1972


RankAuthorScore
1M Hashem Pesaran

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

1.4
2Robert J. Shiller

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

2.21

1973


RankAuthorScore
1John B. Taylor

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

2.28
2Mark R. Rosenzweig

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

3.41
3John Whalley

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

3.47
4Charles F. Manski

Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)
Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

3.7

1974


RankAuthorScore
1Peter C. B. Phillips

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
School of Economics, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore

1.65
2Elhanan Helpman

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

2.09
3Guillermo A. Calvo

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

3.24

1975


RankAuthorScore
1Richard Blundell

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

1.46
2Jean-Jacques Laffont †

2.97
3George Borjas

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

4.06
4Jacques François Thisse

Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics, Saint Petersburg Branch, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

4.73
5Sanford Jay Grossman

7.08

1976


RankAuthorScore
1Lars E. O. Svensson

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

2.15
2Halbert White †

2.67
3Frederic Mishkin

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

3.28
4Eric S. Maskin

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

4.18
5Jonathan Eaton

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

4.89

1977


RankAuthorScore
1Olivier J Blanchard

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

1.4
2Paul R. Krugman

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

2.17
3Laurence J. Kotlikoff

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

3.74

1978


RankAuthorScore
1Mark L. Gertler

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

2.3
2Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

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

2.6
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)

3.64
5Alan Auerbach

Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

3.77

1979


RankAuthorScore
1Ben S. Bernanke

Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

1.98
2Maurice Obstfeld

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

2.16
3Barry Julian Eichengreen

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

2.38

1980


RankAuthorScore
1Kenneth S Rogoff

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

1.43
2René M. Stulz

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

2.91
3Mark W. Watson

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

3.13
4Gene Grossman

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

4.53
5Andrew J. Oswald

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

6.14
6Joel Slemrod

Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)
Office of Tax Policy Research (OTPR), Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

6.81

1981


RankAuthorScore
1Jean Tirole

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

1.44
2Martin Eichenbaum

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

4.41
3Martin Ravallion

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

4.6
4Drew Fudenberg

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

4.73
5John Haltiwanger

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

4.85
6Robert C. Feenstra

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

6.31

1982


RankAuthorScore
1Lawrence H. Summers

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

1.65
2Donald W. K. Andrews

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

2.45
3Lawrence J. Christiano

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

2.48
4B. Douglas Bernheim

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

4.74
5Torsten Persson

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

5.74
6Luigi Guiso

Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy

6.58

1983


RankAuthorScore
1David E. Card

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

2.49
2James H. Stock

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

3.21
3James Poterba

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

3.55
4Michael Woodford

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

3.59
5Whitney Newey

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

5.53
6Kenneth R. French

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

5.55
7Paul Michael Romer

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

6.77
8Allen N. Berger

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

7.31

1984


RankAuthorScore
1John Y. Campbell

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

1.38
2N. Gregory Mankiw

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

2.56
3Oded Galor

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

4.02
4Guido Tabellini

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

4.09
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

6.05
6Richard Rogerson

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

6.38

1985


RankAuthorScore
1Dani Rodrik

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

2.26
2Robert W. Vishny

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

2.56
3Lawrence F. Katz

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

2.79
4William Easterly

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

4.43
5David Romer

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

6.38
6Manuel Arellano

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

7.15
7Klaus F. Zimmermann

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

7.26

1986


RankAuthorScore
1Andrei Shleifer

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

1.14
2Alberto Alesina

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

2.71
3Jeremy C. Stein

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

6.6
4Tim Bollerslev

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

6.85
5Andrew Kenan Rose

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

7.05
6Ernst Fehr

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

7.46
7Francis X. Diebold

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

7.77
8Patrick Kehoe

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

8.76
9Campbell R. Harvey

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

9.14

1987


RankAuthorScore
1Alan B. Krueger

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

1.87
2Ross Levine

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

1.98
3Timothy J. Besley

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

2.92
4David Neumark

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

3.65
5Narayana Kocherlakota

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

8.06
6John Bound

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

8.92
7John C. Quiggin

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

9.75
8Kiminori Matsuyama

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

10.49
9Miles Spencer Kimball

Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

10.68

1988


RankAuthorScore
1Carmen M. Reinhart

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

1.78
2Ricardo J. Caballero

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

2.32
3Janet Currie

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

4.41
4Matthew O. Jackson

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

5.94
5Orazio Attanasio

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

6.68
6Bronwyn Hughes Hall

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands

6.75
7Stephen Machin

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

8.95
8Fabio Canova

Department of Economics, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy

9.04
9Anne Case

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

9.57
10Steven Neil Kaplan

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

10.32

1989


RankAuthorScore
1Jordi Gali

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

2.26
2Joshua D Angrist

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

2.64
3Sergio T Rebelo

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

4.1
4Simon Johnson

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

4.82
5Heng-Fu Zou

China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE), Beijing, China

6.36
6Bruce E. Hansen

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

6.77
7Enrique G. Mendoza

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

7.92
8Marcel Fafchamps

8.95
9Jakob de Haan

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

9.06
10Anil K Kashyap

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

9.18

1990


RankAuthorScore
1Michael P Keane

Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

3.23
2Asli Demirguc-Kunt

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

3.29
3David N. Weil

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

4.12
4Stephen Roy Bond

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

4.44
5Xavier Sala-i-Martin

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

5.1
6Gilles Saint-Paul

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

6.43
7Christopher Carroll

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

7.49
8Harald Uhlig

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

7.64
9Athanasios Orphanides

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

9.11
10Avanidhar Subrahmanyam

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

11.16

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
2Guido Imbens

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

2.87
3David M. Cutler

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

4.72
4Pete Klenow

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

7.17
5Carl Shapiro

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

7.36
6Andrew B. Bernard

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

7.65
7Philip Hans Franses

Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

7.71
8Roberto Perotti

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

7.96
9Stephen Morris

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

8.75
10Oliver Bruce Linton

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

8.88

1992


RankAuthorScore
1Daron Acemoglu

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

0.99
2Edward Ludwig Glaeser

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

2.59
3Luigi Zingales

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

3.85
4Shang-Jin Wei

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

4.69
5Geert Bekaert

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

6.38
6Gordon Hanson

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

8.53
7Jonathan Gruber

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

9.3
8Glenn Ellison

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

10.29
9Frank Rafael Smets

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

11.44
10Allan Timmermann

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

12.39

1993


RankAuthorScore
1John Michael van Reenen

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

2.26
2Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes

Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France

2.35
3Charles I. Jones

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

3.65
4James Alan Robinson

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

5.87
5Serena Ng

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

6.71
6Thomas Piketty

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

8.28
7Casey Mulligan

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

8.58
8Yacine Ait-Sahalia

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

8.69
9Matthew Edwin Kahn

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

8.88
10Mike Wright

Business School, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

9.77

1994


RankAuthorScore
1Rafael La Porta

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

2.4
2David Isaac Laibson

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

2.61
3Steven Levitt

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

3.02
4Martín Uribe

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

6.17
5Norman V. Loayza

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

6.49
6Fabrizio Zilibotti

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

7.31
7Christopher B. Barrett

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

7.42
8John C. Williams

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

7.9
9Caroline Hoxby

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

9.5
10Norman Rasmus Swanson

Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

9.76

1995


RankAuthorScore
1Philip Lane

Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

1.92
2Urs Fischbacher

Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

3.52
3Aart Kraay

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

5.12
4Austan Goolsbee

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

8.12
5Kjetil Storesletten

Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway

8.49
6Wolfgang Keller

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

8.55
7David L. Hummels

Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

9.03
8David Lopez-Salido

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

9.17
9Robert Taylor

Essex Business School, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

9.24
10Kevin Stiroh

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

9.34

1996


RankAuthorScore
1John List

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

1.06
2Lutz Kilian

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

3.51
3Petra Elisabeth Todd

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

5.37
4Robert Shimer

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

6.07
5Stephen James Redding

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

6.12
6Gary Charness

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

6.19
7Bruce Sacerdote

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

9.08
8Rachel Griffith

School of Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

9.08
9Jeffrey Andrew Smith

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

10.02
10Massimiliano Marcellino

Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy

10.3

1997


RankAuthorScore
1Simeon Djankov

New Economic School (NES), Moscow, Russia

1.88
2Richard S.J. Tol

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

5.04
3Francesco Caselli

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

5.61
4Roberto Rigobon

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

5.92
5Harrison Hong

6.39
6David Greenaway

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

6.73
7Lucio Sarno

Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

7.05
8Ayhan Kose

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

7.65
9Jonathan Temple

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

8.25
10Giovanni Luca Violante

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

8.91

1998


RankAuthorScore
1Marianne Bertrand

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

1.92
2Sendhil Mullainathan

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

2.85
3Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

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

3.38
4Romain Wacziarg

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

6.07
5Frank Schorfheide

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

6.08
6Giovanni Peri

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

6.29
7Edward Nelson

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

8.03
8Paola Sapienza

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

9.69
9Bruno 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

12.08
10Kristin Forbes

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

13.36

1999


RankAuthorScore
1Esther Duflo

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

1.49
2Thorsten Beck

Cass Business School, City University, London, United Kingdom

2.75
3Emmanuel Saez

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

3.9
4David Autor

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

4.79
5Xavier Gabaix

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

5.33
6Armin Falk

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

6.96
7Markus K. Brunnermeier

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

9.24
8Matthias Sutter

Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

9.41
9Andrew 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)

9.77
10Lubos Pastor

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

10.76

2000


RankAuthorScore
1Marc J. Melitz

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

2.42
2Enrico Moretti

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

2.42
3Edward Andrew Miguel

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

4.24
4Thierry Mayer

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

4.9
5Victor Chernozhukov

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

6.91
6Jayson L. Lusk

Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma (USA)

8.46
7Michael Ehrmann

Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

8.77
8Steven Stillman

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

9.08
9Xiaobo Zhang

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

9.24
10Matthias Doepke

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

9.32

2001


RankAuthorScore
1Viral V. Acharya

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

2.42
2Nicholas Bloom

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

2.79
3Ludger Woessmann

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

3.42
4Peter H. Egger

Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland
KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland

3.93
5David McKenzie

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

4.09
6Justin Wolfers

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

5.66
7Alois Stutzer

Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland

5.99
8George-Marios Angeletos

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

6.61
9Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde

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

9.31
10Juan F Rubio-Ramirez

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

11.45

2002


RankAuthorScore
1Marcel Fratzscher

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

2.31
2Dean S. Karlan

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

2.33
3Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

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

3.19
4Ulrike Malmendier

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

4.72
5Stefano DellaVigna

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

5.16
6Balázs Égert

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

9.93
7Hanno Lustig

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

10.51
8Matteo Iacoviello

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

10.56
9Barbara Sianesi

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

10.69
10Gert Peersman

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

11.54

2003


RankAuthorScore
1Raj Chetty

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

2.15
2Pol Antras

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

2.72
3Axel Dreher

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

2.85
4Uwe Sunde

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

5.88
5Imran Rasul

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

6.56
6Thomas Philippon

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

7.53
7Jesse Rothstein

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

7.73
8Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh

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

9.02
9Paola Giuliano

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

10.85
10Jianjun Miao

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

11.67

2004


RankAuthorScore
1Ricardo Reis

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

2.02
2Motohiro Yogo

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

4.3
3Paresh Kumar Narayan

Centre for Economics and Financial Econometrics Research (CEFER), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

4.64
4Domenico Giannone

Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Roma, Italy

4.82
5Mikhail Golosov

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

5.36
6Giorgio E. Primiceri

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

6.83
7Andrew Keith Leigh

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

6.98
8Andrei A. Levchenko

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

7.53
9Refet S. Gürkaynak

İktisat Bölümü, Bilkent Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey

8.14
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)

2.59
2Amir Sufi

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

2.95
3Jesse Shapiro

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

4.34
4James Jinwoo Choi

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

6.06
5Rangan Gupta

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

7.74
6Petia Topalova

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

8.58
7Adam Szeidl

Department of Economics, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

9.77
8Toshihiro Okubo

Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

10.13
9Thomas Chaney

Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France

11.06
10Joseph E. Aldy

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

13.51

2006


RankAuthorScore
1Emmanuel Farhi

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

1.92
2Francesco Trebbi

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

2.41
3Emi Nakamura

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

5.62
4Nattavudh Powdthavee

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

8.11
5d'Artis Kancs

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

8.69
6Pascaline Dupas

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

8.85
7Andrea Filippo Presbitero

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

9.07
8Nicolas Coeurdacier

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

9.44
9Robert Inklaar

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

9.48
10Francisco A. Gallego

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

10.28

2007


RankAuthorScore
1Yuriy Gorodnichenko

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

1.4
2Jon Steinsson

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

3.75
3Parag Pathak

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

4.67
4James B. Ang

Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

6.59
5Costas Arkolakis

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

6.96
6Amit Seru

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

7.65
7Gaëtan J.A. Nicodème

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

9.1
8Olivier Coibion

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

10.01
9Helen Simpson

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

10.08
10Davin Chor

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

12.87

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

3.59
2Deniz Igan

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

4.75
3Andreas Peichl

Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany

4.92
4Stelios Michalopoulos

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

5.94
5Peter Huber

Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, Austria

6.57
6Tomasz Strzalecki

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

6.72
7Ian Martin

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

8.6
8Michael E. Waugh

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

9.31
9Amanda Ellen Kowalski

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

9.46
10Leonardo Iacovone

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

10.54

2009


RankAuthorScore
1Michael Shields

Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

1.55
2Oleg Itskhoki

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

3.4
3Quamrul Ashraf

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

4.7
4Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto

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

5.3
5Roman M. Sheremeta

Department of Economics, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)

5.42
6Greg Warren Kaplan

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

7.05
7Marta Banbura

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

8.62
8Seema Narayan

School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

10.25
9David Dorn

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

10.87
10Maximo Rossi

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Granada Lab of Behavioral Economics (GLOBE), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

12.52

2010


RankAuthorScore
1Thomas Johannes Dohmen

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

1.5
2Markus Brückner

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

2.98
3Loukas Karabarbounis

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

5.8
4Matthew J. Notowidigdo

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

5.85
5Daniel Dias

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

6.16
6Dimitris Korobilis

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

7.32
7David J Deming

7.96
8Johanna Wallenius

Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

9.73
9Leonardo Bursztyn

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

10.86
10Johannes F. Schmieder

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

10.97

2011


RankAuthorScore
1Javier Bianchi

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

3.66
2Minseong Kim

School of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea

4.56
3Alexander Wolitzky

5.72
4Diego Winkelried

Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru

5.86
5Andreas Fuster

Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (USA)

5.94
6Peter A. Savelyev

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

6.54
7Jing Cynthia Wu

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

7.55
8Luca Sessa

Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy

7.8
9Stefano Giglio

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

7.89
10Jeffrey P. Clemens

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

9.24

2012


RankAuthorScore
1Joshua D. Gottlieb

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

1.85
2David Hemous

Economic and Political Sciences Area, Institut Européen d'Administration (INSEAD), Fontainebleau, France

3.25
3Ian Louis Dew-Becker

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

3.83
4Tuck Cheong Tang

Faculty of Economics and Administration, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5.55
5William Fabius Lincoln

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

8.01
6Johan Fourie

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

8.25
7Joao Tovar Jalles

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

8.75
8Ine Van Robays

European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9.63
9Dr. Abdul Rashid

International Institute of Islamic Economics (IIIE), International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan

9.98
10Derek Yu

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

11.5

2013


RankAuthorScore
1Tomas Havranek

Česká Národní Banka, Praha, Czech Republic

1.59
2Sean M. Dougherty

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

3.71
3Christopher Tonetti

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

3.87
4Erkan Erdogdu

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

5.75
5Remy Lecat

Banque de France, Paris, France

5.89
6Mazhar Waseem

Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom
Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

6.33
7Jesse Perla

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

7.37
8Ugo Troiano

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

7.58
9Gabriel Zucman

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)
Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

8.28
10Christian Seiler

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

8.84

2014


RankAuthorScore
1Christian Lessmann

Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

1.37
2Brent Bundick

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

3.3
3Hugo Valin

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria

4.96
4Dieter von Fintel

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

5.22
5Timothy Uy

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

5.4

The data presented here is experimental. It is based on a limited sample of the research output in Economics and Finance. Only material catalogued in RePEc is considered. For any citation based criterion, only works that could be parsed by the CitEc project are considered. For any ranking of people, only those registered with the RePEc Author Service can be taken into account. And for rankings of institutions, only those listed in EDIRC and claimed as affiliation by the respective, registered authors can be measured. Thus, this list is by no means based on a complete sample. You can help making this more comprehensive by encouraging more publications to be listed (instructions) and more authors to register (form). For more details on the various rankings that are available as well for documentation, follow this link.

Credits:

We do our best, but we cannot exclude errors.