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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Central & South America, as of July 2012

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Central & South America

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-LAM (Central & South America).
RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

1.164942.12
2Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.993327.41
3Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

3.677666.94
(4)Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

4.692217.8
(4)Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

4.692823.3
4Department of Economics, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

5.041714.58
5Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.995944.28
6Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

8.945732.22
7Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

10.629067.88
(7)Afdeling Ruimtelijke Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

10.623223.35
(8)Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

12.68104.45
8Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

13.154735.76
9World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

13.58340283.24
10Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

14.44134.9
11Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität

Linz, Austria

14.893726.39
12Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

15.056147.68
(13)Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

15.722723.45
13Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

17.614033.83
14Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

18.962521.59
(14)Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

18.9664.42
15Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

20.918061.97
16Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

20.925030.41
17National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

22.0345839.44
18School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

22.682513.08
19Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

23.714317.12
20Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität

Kiel, Germany

24.122416.56
21Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

24.894937.06
22Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

256146.34
23Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

27.123634.92
(24)Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

27.55131110.13
24Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

28.093627.01
(25)Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

29.182523.92
25Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

29.853632.17
(26)Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

31.985439.5
26Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

33.553732.03
27Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

33.594435.89
28International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

36.32291248.12
29Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

39.894636.71
(30)Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

40.021310.03
30Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

42.415140.59
31CRC "Armut, Ungleichheit und Wachstum in Entwicklungsländern", Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

42.4752.7
32Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

44.0591.7
33Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

45.238169.06
34Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

46.116953.77
35Department of Economics, Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

48.012520.1
36Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

48.46137.82
37Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

50.4965.05
(38)Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

50.7742.64
38Banco Central de Chile

Santiago, Chile

51.754541.6
39London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

54.96222151.29
40Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

55.192717.7
41Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés

Buenos Aires, Argentina

56.111410.13
42Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

56.963426.31
43Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

58.556243.71
44Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

58.832621.62
45Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

59.223323.54
(46)Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (CeGE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

59.4331.54
(46)Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

60.55159.66
(46)Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

60.83107.38
(46)Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

61.992114.85
46Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

62.514330.87
47Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

62.542115.73
48Department of Economics, University of Haifa

Haifa, Israel

62.851311.57
(49)Centro de Investigación en Finanzas, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

63.0533
49Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

64.452213.57
(49)Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

64.4562.62
50Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

65.18137115.03
51Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

65.36109.89
52International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

65.64122107.61
53Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

65.72928.82
54Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

65.9175147.93
55Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

71.762419.1
56Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

71.92144111.31
(57)Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

73.422418.43
(57)Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

74.584027.33
57Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

75.693931.92
(58)Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

77.612319.79
58Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

79.191512.7
59Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

79.484034.37
60Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

81.073128.94
(61)Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

84.7954.13
61Department of Economics, Korea University

Seoul, South Korea

84.832015.88
(62)Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

85.375436.23
62Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara, California (USA)

85.623328.09
63Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

86.11614.15
64Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Rimini, Italy

86.368913.68
(65)Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

86.9984.49
65Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

88.0414094.62
66Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

88.541610.9
67Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

88.99150123.65
68Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

89.39196109.26
(69)Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

89.75346.2
(69)European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

91.045230.85
69School of Business, Bond University

Gold Coast, Australia

91.8443.34
70Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

92.223934.59
71Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

93.872622.27
72Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

96.884433.2
73Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

97.99145.66
74Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

98.243734.19
75Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

98.641010
76Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania (USA)

99.91917.12
(77)Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

101.048664.42
(77)Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

101.5132.19
77Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

101.593429.58
78Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

102.8460769.64
(79)Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

105.676.45
(79)Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

106.271412.18
79Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

106.872419.93
80Center for Global Development (CGD)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

106.98128.87
81Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

107.351714.6

Top 10% authors in the field of Central & South America

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RankAuthorScore
1Daron Acemoglu

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1
2James Tobin †

,

2.55
3Lawrence H. Summers

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.84
4Sebastian Edwards

Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA)

5.41
5Dani Rodrik

Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.75
6William Baumol

Department of Economics, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

7.5
7Jose De Gregorio

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

7.73
8Lawrence R. Klein

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

8.72
9Guido Tabellini

Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy

10.21
10Jere Richard Behrman

Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

10.5
11Alberto Alesina

Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.8
12Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.92
13Andrew Murray Weiss

Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

13.54
14Alejandro Gaviria

Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

14.06
15Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

14.45
16James Alan Robinson

Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

16.09
17Ricardo Hausmann

Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

18.48
18Torsten Persson

Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden

20.39
19Ernesto Schargrodsky

Centro de Investigación en Finanzas, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

20.95
20Keith Blackburn

Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

21.07
21Avner Bar-ilan

Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

23.7
22Sebastian Galiani

Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA)

23.84
23Edward Andrew Miguel

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

25.25
24Mariano Tommasi

Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina

25.77
25Andrew Foster

Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

27
26Norman V. Loayza

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

27.19
27Mauricio Cardenas

Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

27.63
28James Schmitz

Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

28.28
29Rodney Edward Falvey

School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

31.2
30Jeffrey Gale Williamson

,

31.98
31Leonardo C. Gasparini

Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

32.61
32Gary Fields

School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA)

35.29
33Luis Servén

Economics Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

35.35
34Raquel Bernal

Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

36.29
35Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

36.54
36Cesar A. Calderon

World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

36.57
37Alberto Chong

École de Développement International et de Mondialisation / School of International Development and Global Studies, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

37.76
38Brian R. Copeland

Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

38.16
39Dante Contreras

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

39.75
40Alain de Janvry

Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

40.8
41Carmen Pages

Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

42.43
42Carol Ann Rogers

Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

43.12

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