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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Microfinance, as of July 2012

This page shows one of the many rankings computed with RePEc data. They are based on data about authors who have registered with the RePEc Author Service, institutions listed on EDIRC, bibliographic data collected by RePEc, citation analysis performed by CitEc and popularity data compiled by LogEc. To find more rankings, historical data and detailed methodology, click here. Or see the ranking FAQ. For Microfinance, these are 314 authors affiliated with 933 institutions.
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Top 10% 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).
RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
(1)Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

1.712217.8
1Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

1.717666.94
(0)Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

1.712823.3
2World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

4.09340283.24
3Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Santa Cruz, California (USA)

4.442318.15
4Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

5.679067.88
(5)Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

6.4131110.13
(5)Afdeling Ruimtelijke Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

8.063223.35
5London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

8.13222151.29
6Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

9.363832.83
7Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

10.435947.98
8Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

12.863932.34
9Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Lüneburg, Germany

15.51108.47
(10)Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

15.975436.23
10Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität

Kiel, Germany

16.92416.56
11Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

16.935944.28
12Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

17.112621.62
13CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

1813180.96
14Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

18.2321.47
(15)Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

19.8494.24
15Department of Economics, European University Institute

Firenze, Italy

21.033622.04
16International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

21.27291248.12
17Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations

New York City, New York (USA)

22.31108.6
18Department of Economics, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada (USA)

22.4475.86
19Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Roma, Italy

22.529679.12
20Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

23.094435.89
21National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

24.5945839.44
(22)Dipartimento di Economia e Istituzioni, Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Roma, Italy

25.422922.37
22Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

25.973327.41
23School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

26.5510472.84
24Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

27.123732.03
25Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Lisboa, Portugal

27.147361.88
26Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

27.235346.07
27Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

30.92144111.31
28Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

35.346650.8
(29)Vakgroep Algemene Economie, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

35.523118.06
(29)Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Essen, Germany

36.791511.59
29Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Essen, Germany

36.792117.06
30Department of Economics, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

39.33934.52
31Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

39.355732.22
32Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

41.133426.31
33Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

41.434843.72
34Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

41.575030.41
35Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

47.425749.11
36Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

48.335140.59
37Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

51.124735.76
38Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

53.453632.17
39Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN)

Stockholm, Sweden

54.25735.72
(40)Interdisciplinary Institute of Management (IIM), London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

54.6311
40Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

56.266950.64
41Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

57.93931.92
(42)Département économie et finance, Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord)

Lille/Paris, France

57.981611.51
42Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord)

Lille/Paris, France

57.981913.41
43Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

58.572819.05
(44)Unidade de Estudos sobre Complexidade e Economia (UECE), Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa

Lisboa, Portugal

58.612818.44
44Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

58.882116.1
(45)Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

59.03107.38
45Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana (USA)

59.572321.31
(45)Department of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana (USA)

59.5755
46Dipartimento di Economia Politica, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

60.672110.55
47Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

60.994942.12
(48)Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

61.371412.18
48Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

61.373934.59
(49)Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

61.38104.45
(49)Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

61.392319.79
49Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

62.096243.71
(50)Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

62.1998.84
(50)Finance Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

63.272319.24
50Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Rimini, Italy

65.948913.68
51Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

66.066147.68
52DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung)

Berlin, Germany

66.812480.71
53Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

Namur, Belgium

67.372521.3
54Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

67.669868.62
55Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

69.364939.81
(56)Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

70.842.83
56Centre for European Research in Microfinance (CERMi)

Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium

71.65207.35
57Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

72.6614094.62
(58)Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

73.946056.49
58Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

73.947468.64
59Guanghua School of Management, Peking University

Beijing, China

74.52927.52
60Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

London, United Kingdom

75.065421.79
(61)Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

75.395346.2
61Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

76.351412.15
(62)Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement (CRED), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix

Namur, Belgium

77.461413.2
(62)Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

79.416644.98
62Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

79.846746.76
63Department of Economics, Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

80.662520.1
64Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

81.072521.59
65Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

82.18218.73
(66)Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

84.224417.87
66Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

85.69109.85
(66)Finance Department, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

85.6965.85
(67)Sonderforschungsbereich 373, Quantifikation und Simulation ökonomischer Prozesse, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

85.9730.89
(67)Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie (ISÖ), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

85.971910.61
67Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

85.97207.45
68School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

87.597951.16
69Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

88.812717.7
70Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

90.117552.2
(71)Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

90.622614.88
71International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

91.1122107.61
72Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

91.3240.72
73John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University

Clemson, South Carolina (USA)

92.872220.12
74Tinbergen Instituut

Amsterdam, Netherlands

94.1914427.68
75Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)

Napoli, Italy

95.573921.54
76Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

98.087252.53
77Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

98.346037.73
78Center for Social Development, Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

98.4911
79Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

99.593128.94
80Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW)

Kiel, Germany

101.416241.68
81Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Peradeniya

Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

103.2433
82Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

103.9661.38
83Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

105.054034.37
84Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

106.494937.06
(85)Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

108.141310.03
85Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

108.164317.12
86Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

109.644838.62
87Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

109.7610496.01
88Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

110.292720.18
89Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

110.58196109.26
(90)Finance Group, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

110.5986.39
90Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

111.1427921.66
91School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

111.592513.08
92Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

112.072419.1
93Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

112.822319.17

Top 10% authors in the field of Microfinance

This ranking is based on registered authors only, and only those who are classified within this field. Authors can register at the RePEc Author Service.
RankAuthorScore
1Ross Levine

Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

2.2
2Jonathan Morduch

Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (NYU), New York City, New York (USA)

3.11
3Peter M. Robinson

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

3.8
4Leonardo Becchetti

Dipartimento di Economia e Istituzioni, Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy

4.59
5Thorsten Beck

CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands

4.95
6Nazrul Islam

Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York City, New York (USA)

5.01
7Asli Demirguc-Kunt

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

5.28
8Allen N. Berger

Financial Institutions Center, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

5.59
9Dean S. Karlan

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

5.67
10Christopher Woodruff

Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

9.23
11David de Meza

Interdisciplinary Institute of Management (IIM), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

13.84
12Robert P. Flood

Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (USA)

14.32
13Keith Blackburn

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

14.57
14Arthur Hosios

Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

14.78
15Jonathan Zinman

Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

16.82
16Beatriz Armendáriz

Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

18.87
17Varouj Aram Aivazian

Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

20.11
18Oliver Bruce Linton

Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

20.35
19Inessa Love

Finance and Private Sector Research, World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

20.68
20Robert Cull

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

21.11
21Donald Cox

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

21.33
22Jean-Marie Baland

Centre de Recherche en Économie de Développement (CRED), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Sociales et de Gestion (FSESG), Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

22.58
23Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

22.67
24Shahidur Rahman Khandker

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

23.01
25Robin Burgess

Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom

24.35
26David McKenzie

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

25.8
27Xavier Gine

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

26.27
28Marcel Fafchamps

Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

28.33
29Dipak Mazumdar

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28.52
30Steven B Caudill

Department of Economics and Business Administration, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee (USA)

30
31Suresh de Mel

Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

30.05

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