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Top 5% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Positive Political Economics, as of December 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	1.2	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge
2	1.63	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
3	3.83	Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge
4	4.44	Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
5	5.79	London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
6	6.55	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich
7	7.26	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
(8)	7.33	Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
8	9.11	CESifo, München
9	9.56	Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
10	10.17	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
(11)	11.72	Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich
11	11.82	Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge
12	12.37	Department of Economics, New York University, New York City
13	13.82	Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City
14	14.83	World Bank Group, Washington
15	17.98	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
16	19.05	Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm
(17)	19.64	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics (LSE), University of London, London
17	22.33	Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
18	23.02	School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York City
(19)	23.77	Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington
19	23.9	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton
20	24.19	Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry
21	25.95	Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
22	28.02	ECORE, Louvain/Bruxelles
(23)	28.06	Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City
23	28.81	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge
24	29.18	Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
25	29.73	Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park
26	31.49	Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
27	32.53	Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago
(27)	32.53	International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
28	33.01	Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure, Paris
29	33.15	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
30	38.37	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Palo Alto
31	38.78	Economics Department, Brown University, Providence
(32)	40.82	Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse
(32)	40.87	European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), ECORE, Bruxelles
32	42.87	Department of Economics, Stanford University, Palo Alto
33	43.08	Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge
34	43.13	Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca
35	43.35	Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago
36	46.75	William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
37	49.17	Paris School of Economics, Paris
38	52.16	International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genève
39	53.36	Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam
(40)	54.51	School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
39	54.51	Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
41	54.77	Economics Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing
42	54.89	New Economic School (NES), Moscow
43	55	Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
44	56.44	Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto
45	56.83	Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine
46	56.97	Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston
47	60.25	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
48	62.15	Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla
49	62.61	Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign
50	62.8	Department of Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus
51	64.03	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington

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.