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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Positive Political Economics, as of October 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	1.14	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	1.71	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.97	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
4	4.33	Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
5	5.83	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
6	6.56	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich
(7)	7.28	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
7	7.29	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
8	8.95	CESifo, München
9	10.05	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
10	10.32	Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
(11)	11.62	Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
11	11.72	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
12	11.83	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
13	12.99	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
14	16.02	World Bank Group, Washington
15	18.19	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
16	18.43	Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm
(17)	19.65	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
17	22.4	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
18	22.41	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
19	24.62	Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry
20	24.76	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
(21)	25.41	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
21	25.6	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton
(22)	26.64	International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
(22)	26.93	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
22	28.67	ECORE, Louvain/Bruxelles
23	28.75	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
24	29.32	Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure, Paris
25	29.47	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
26	31.31	Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
27	31.36	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
28	32.45	Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago
29	33.44	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
30	38.45	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto
(31)	38.78	Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
31	39.29	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
32	40.99	Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge
(33)	41.1	European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), ECORE, Bruxelles
33	42.93	Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca
34	45.18	Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago
35	45.45	William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
36	49.43	Paris School of Economics, Paris
37	51.56	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
(38)	52.48	School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
37	52.48	Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
39	52.61	Economics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing
40	53.06	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
41	53.47	Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine
42	54.07	International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genève
43	56.47	Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston
44	58.46	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
45	59.15	Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven
46	59.34	Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto
47	59.43	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
48	62.45	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington
49	62.47	Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign
50	64.2	Department of Economics, Washington University, St. Louis

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.