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

Top 5% institutions in the field of Corporate Finance

The scores of institutions in each field are determined by a weighted sum of all authors affiliated with the respective institutions. The weights are determined, for each author, by the proportion of all working papers announced in NEP that have also been announced in NEP-CFN (Corporate Finance).

Rank	Score	Institution
1	1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	2.31	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.66	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
4	3.78	CESifo, München
5	5.42	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
6	6.78	Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
7	6.94	Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago
8	7.65	Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
9	8.82	Cambridge Finance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
10	11.37	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich
11	12.1	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
(12)	12.54	Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
11	12.54	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
13	13.28	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
14	14.2	Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
15	14.92	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
16	17.86	Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich
(17)	20.04	Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
17	21.33	Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
18	24.05	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
(19)	24.35	Charles A. Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
(18)	24.35	Department of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, Columbus
(19)	24.45	Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
19	26.76	Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto
(20)	27.76	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
20	28.32	Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Oxford
21	28.45	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington
22	28.93	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto
23	29.23	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
24	29.49	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
25	32.32	IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
26	32.37	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
27	34.64	Stern School of Business, New York University, New York City
28	34.88	Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam
(29)	37.84	Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
29	38.39	CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant), Tilburg
(30)	38.7	Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
30	38.77	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
31	38.86	Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven
32	40.33	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid
33	40.61	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
34	41.19	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
35	41.22	World Bank Group, Washington
36	41.43	Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston
(37)	41.57	Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
37	42.08	Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
38	43.79	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
39	43.81	Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham
(40)	44.34	Department of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas-Austin, Austin
39	44.34	McCombs School of Business, University of Texas-Austin, Austin
(41)	44.55	Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston
41	44.78	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
42	48.03	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
(43)	48.83	Finance Department, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York City
43	49	William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester, Rochester
44	50.92	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Fisciano
45	53	Department of Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin

Top 5% authors in the field of Corporate Finance

Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Technical University of Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration by Ivan Kumanov, Minsk, Belarus.
• Institutions database and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel, Long Island University.