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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Positive Political Economics, as of September 2008

Top 5% institutions in the field of Positive Political Economics

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-POL (Positive Political Economics).

Rank	Score	Institution
1	1.12	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	1.76	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.88	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
4	4.54	Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
5	5.65	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
6	7.15	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich
(7)	7.21	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
7	7.38	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
8	8.84	CESifo, München
9	10.09	Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
10	10.73	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
11	10.78	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
12	11	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
(13)	12.11	Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
13	12.75	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
14	15.93	World Bank Group, Washington
15	17.68	Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm
16	17.77	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
(17)	19.22	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
17	21.76	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
18	21.77	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
19	24.47	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
20	24.94	Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry
(21)	25.06	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
(21)	26.31	International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
(21)	26.33	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
21	28.57	ECORE, Louvain/Bruxelles
22	29.03	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
23	29.09	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
24	29.33	Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure, Paris
25	30.36	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
26	30.88	Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
27	32.02	Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago
28	32.81	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
29	33.26	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton
30	37.4	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto
(31)	38.2	Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
31	39.76	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
(32)	40.66	European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), ECORE, Bruxelles
32	41.52	Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge
33	42.68	Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca
34	44.56	Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago
35	45.13	William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
36	48.8	Paris School of Economics, Paris
37	51.44	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
38	51.45	International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genève
39	52	Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine
40	52.1	Economics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing
41	52.94	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
(42)	53.3	School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
41	53.3	Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
43	54.86	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
44	55.81	Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston
45	57.21	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
46	60.31	Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven
47	60.64	Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
48	61.02	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
49	62.4	Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto

Top 5% authors in the field of Positive Political Economics

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.