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

Top 5% institutions in the field of Microfinance

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-MFD (Microfinance).

Rank	Score	Institution
1	1.2	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	2.5	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.77	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
4	5.14	World Bank Group, Washington
5	5.41	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
6	5.76	Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
7	7.22	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
8	7.66	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
9	8.22	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(9)	8.22	Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(10)	8.85	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
10	12.07	Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
11	13.37	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington
12	13.45	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
13	14.8	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
(14)	17.99	Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
14	18.49	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
(15)	18.86	Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
15	19.27	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
16	20.53	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
(17)	21.39	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
17	21.97	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
18	22.36	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
19	22.77	Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford
20	23.8	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
(21)	24.95	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
(21)	26.08	Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
21	27.2	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
(22)	29.83	Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
22	30.41	Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill
(23)	30.83	Aid Effectiveness Research, World Bank Group, Washington
23	33.96	Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City
24	35.23	Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam
25	36.57	Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
26	37.53	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven
27	37.59	Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
28	39.89	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
29	42.12	Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover
30	42.91	CESifo, München

Top 5% authors in the field of Microfinance

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.