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

1.184840.53
2Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.83225.99
3Department of Economics, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

4.21815.58
4Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

4.625641.54
5Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

6.057667.2
(6)Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung (IEW), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

7.152117.11
(6)Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

7.152823.61
6Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

7.785632.02
7Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Santa Cruz, California (USA)

9.22722.03
8World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

9.3338279
9Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

10.379370.78
(9)Afdeling Ruimtelijke Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, Netherlands

10.373323.6
10Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

13.644332.46
(11)Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

13.76104.44
11Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

14.994235.29
12Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Johannes-Kepler-Universität

Linz, Austria

16.033727.14
13Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

16.375946.7
(14)Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

16.722823.69
(14)Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

17.52131107.85
14Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

18.298368.67
15School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

21.272815.41
16National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

21.7146243.31
17Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

22.022521.59
(17)Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

22.0264.42
18Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

24.261713.51
19Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

25.474929.4
20Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

25.555844.76
21Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

2691.88
22Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

26.954317.98
23Department Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Zeppelin Universität

Friedrichshafen, Germany

27.0421.33
24Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

27.825037.58
25Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

28.343626.73
26Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel

Kiel, Germany

29.072516.81
27Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

30.83635.29
(28)Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

33.62624.54
(28)Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

33.755237.79
28Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

34.693834.59
29International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

36.95301256.56
30Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

36.963933.52
31Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

37.393630.83
32Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

38.84435.89
33Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

43.484436.17
(34)Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

46.35129.06
34Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

47.038271.47
35Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

47.065241.44
36Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

48.7910572.11
(37)Pacific Island New Zealand Migration Study, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

49.1520.46
37Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

49.152721.04
38Department of Economics, Washington University

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

51.132721.08
(39)Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

52.285337.84
39Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

53.5765.08
40Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

54.766652.16
41Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

54.83136.74
(42)Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

55.2942.64
42London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

56226153.67
43Banco Central de Chile

Santiago, Chile

57.154641.64
44Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

59.862717.75
(45)Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (CeGE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

60.9331.54
45Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

62.372823.37
46Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

62.643527.3
47Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés

Buenos Aires, Argentina

62.751410.38
48Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

65.353423.94
(49)Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

65.931510.18
49Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

66.396244.26
(50)Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

66.47107.4
(50)Centro de Investigación en Finanzas, Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

66.5333
(50)Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

67.782114.39
50Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

67.862115.73
51Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

68.183931.12
52Department of Economics, University of Haifa

Haifa, Israel

69.761311.42
(53)Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

69.912318.98
53Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

71.341110.88
54Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

71.452313.59
(54)Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

71.4572.67
55Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

71.47142119.05
56Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

72.273029.82
57International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

72.47123108.09
58Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

73.07177150.25
59Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

73.34634.74
(60)Volkswirtschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

77.042417.86
60Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

78.291614.6
61Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

78.362519.97
62Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

80.38148114.47
(63)Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

81.954026.38
63Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

83.71711.35
64Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

87.124235.84
65Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

87.873027.96
66Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

88.54145100.16
(67)Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

90.55536.34
67Department of Economics, Korea University

Seoul, South Korea

90.712015.89
(68)European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

91.345734.65
68Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

91.371511.75
69Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA)

Rimini, Italy

91.948712.66
(70)Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

91.9954.13
(70)Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Georg-August-Universität

Göttingen, Germany

92.684.54
(70)Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

95.375646.7
70Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

95.523935.23
71School of Business, Bond University

Gold Coast, Australia

95.8654.31
72Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

97.29196111.55
73Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara, California (USA)

99.653227.13
74Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

100.01150126.02
75Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

100.32520.39
76Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

101.3261283.31
77Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

101.5399
78Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

102.874635.24
79Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania (USA)

103.382119.11
(80)Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

103.918364.24
80Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

104.07145.15
(81)Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

105.7732.19
81Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

1073833.8
82Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

107.493530.81
(83)Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

109.651513.14
83Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

110.1427423.56
(84)Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

112.376.45
84Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

113.0155

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)

2.74
4Sebastian Edwards

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

5.17
5Dani Rodrik

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

5.62
6Jose De Gregorio

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

7.33
7William Baumol

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

7.35
8Jere Richard Behrman

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

9.52
9Guido Tabellini

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

9.7
10Alberto Alesina

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

10.45
11Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

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

10.83
12Andrew Murray Weiss

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

12.62
13Alejandro 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

13.3
14Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

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

15.09
15James Alan Robinson

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

17.02
16Ricardo Hausmann

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

18.81
17Ernesto Schargrodsky

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

20.03
18Torsten Persson

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

20.38
19Keith Blackburn

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

20.97
20Sebastian Galiani

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

21.25
21Avner Bar-ilan

Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

23.48
22Edward Andrew Miguel

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

25.35
23Mariano Tommasi

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

26.2
24Andrew Foster

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

26.82
25Norman V. Loayza

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

27.41
26James Schmitz

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

28.7
27Mauricio Cardenas

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

28.71
28Rodney Edward Falvey

School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

29.83
29Leonardo C. Gasparini

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

31.28
30Jeffrey Gale Williamson

32.54
31Roberto Rigobon

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

35.55
32Gary Fields

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

35.88
33Luis Servén

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

36.03
34Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

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

36.3
35Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

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

37.43
36Brian R. Copeland

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

38.24
37Dante Contreras

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

38.41
38Raquel Bernal

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

38.58
39Cesar A. Calderon

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

38.74
40Rodrigo Reis Soares

Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

39.12
41Alberto Chong

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

39.6
42Carmen Pages

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

40.86
43Alain de Janvry

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

41.04

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