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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Microfinance, as of October 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	1.33	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	2.79	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	4.15	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
4	4.43	Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam
5	5.55	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
6	6.47	World Bank Group, Washington
7	7.51	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
8	8.01	Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
9	8.86	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
10	9.75	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
(11)	9.96	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
(11)	10.13	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
(11)	10.63	Afdeling Ruimtelijke Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
11	10.9	Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
(12)	11.02	Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
12	13.93	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
13	16.33	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
(14)	16.5	Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge
14	17.92	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
15	19.6	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
16	20.49	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington
(17)	21.35	Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
17	22.79	Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford
18	24.02	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
19	25.61	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
20	26.73	Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles
21	28.01	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
(22)	29.21	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
(22)	30.58	Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
22	33.2	Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill
23	34.57	Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant), Tilburg
24	34.85	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
25	36.27	Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol, Bristol
26	36.56	Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, New York City
27	36.7	Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis
28	39.09	ECORE, Louvain/Bruxelles
29	39.39	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
30	40.04	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
31	40.62	Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles
(31)	40.62	Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles

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.