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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Central & South America, as of March 2013

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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, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

1.395743.45
2Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.525933.14
3World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

4.64351290
4Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4.764335.91
5Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.273528.86
6Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

6.534639.08
---Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.56115.23
7Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

7.154130.02
---Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

7.792923.87
8Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

8.878973.17
8Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

8.875745.31
10Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

10.062622.12
---Global Economics & Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

10.0664.42
11National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

12.1346852.11
12Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

15.483736.18
---Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

17.212725.43
13Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

17.414733.2
---Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

17.65132107.08
14Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

18.14517.17
15Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

18.915130.46
16Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

21.993935.86
17Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

225843.63
18Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

22.318373.31
19Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

22.344135.52
---Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

23.625137.74
20Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

23.954335.27
21Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

24.263832.73
22School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

24.432715.4
23Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

24.694435.47
24International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

29.36309262.44
---Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

32.78118.38
25Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

34.195341.49
26Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

36.5276.09
27Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

36.542721.01
28Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

38.14146.88
29Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

40.053523.07
30London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

40.34235164.09
---Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

41.0742.65
31Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

41.076551.77
32Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés

Buenos Aires, Argentina

42139.77
33Ministerio de Proteccion Social, Government of Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

42.1511
34Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

42.516448.81
---Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

42.912214.39
35Banco Central de Chile

Santiago, Chile

44.584440.6
36Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

44.824233.37
37Department of Economics, University of Haifa

Haifa, Israel

47.391311.47
38Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

47.482818.81
39Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

47.942117.16
---Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

48.22118.32
40Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

49.093126.32
41Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

50.262515.57
---Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

50.2672.69
42International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

50.42123108.75
43Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

51.25178150.24
44Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

51.683230.88
45Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

52.083930.98
---Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

53.362318.99
---Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

53.741510.23
46Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

54.512216.08
47Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

54.711514.08
48Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

55.261110.87
49Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

56.19144121.05
50Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

60.445138.02
51Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

64.762720.6
---Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

65.913824.94
52Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

66.79145106.55
53Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

67.11711.34
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

67.815637.9
54Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

69.23027.96
55Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

69.514135.15
56School of Business, Bond University

Gold Coast, Australia

74.2543.84
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

74.695740.59
57Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

75.21917.18
58Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

76.56153120.77
---Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

77.1754.13
59Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

77.741010
60Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

79.317656.08
61Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

79.58194115.71
62Department of Economics, Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

80.261918.95
63Department of Economics, Korea University

Seoul, South Korea

80.942217.86
64Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

80.973935.82
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

82.132720.9
65Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

83.733936
66Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara, California (USA)

83.963226.63
67Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania (USA)

84.22321.1
68Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

84.59151117.25
---Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

85.5332.19
69Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

87.28135.18
70Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

88.084535.12
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

88.968564.42
71Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

90.953631.99
---Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

91.1176.86
72Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

91.8276.5
---Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

92.185646.37
73Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)

Lima, Peru

95.581916.62
---Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

96.411513.15
---Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de la Administración, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

97.973125.37
74Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de la Administración, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

97.973327.23
75School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (USA)

98.1973.66
---Centre de développement, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

99.082320.41
76Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Canada

99.173230.78
76Facultad de Economía, Universidad del Rosario

Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

99.174232.81
78Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

101.6362688.94
79Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

101.931311.48
80International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Genève, Switzerland

102.113429.15
81Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

102.294837.43
---International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

104.7232.42
82School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

104.898356.07
---International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

106.085141.5
83Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

108.521815.49
84Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), United Nations

Santiago, Chile

108.582118.69
---Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

110.646352.85
85Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

111.327423.69
---Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

112.593417.3
86Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

La Jolla, California (USA)

117.354032.91
87BI Handelshøyskolen

Oslo, Norway

119.141914.48
88Département des sciences économiques, Université de Genève

Genève, Switzerland

119.21812.9

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

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RankAuthorScore
1James Tobin †

1.41
2Lawrence H. Summers

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

1.68
3Sebastian Edwards

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

3.86
4Dani Rodrik

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

4.54
5Daron Acemoglu

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

5.33
6William Baumol

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

6.34
7Guido Tabellini

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

9.85
8Jose De Gregorio

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

10.09
9Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

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

10.59
10Andrew Murray Weiss

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

11.57
11Alberto Alesina

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

11.7
12Alejandro Gaviria

Ministerio de Proteccion Social, Government of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

12.37
13Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

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

13.41
14James Alan Robinson

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

15.77
15Ernesto Schargrodsky

Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina

16.66
16Ricardo Hausmann

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

18.06
17Keith Blackburn

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

19.21
18Torsten Persson

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

19.97
19Avner Bar-ilan

Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

20.23
20Sebastian Galiani

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

20.95
21Mariano Tommasi

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

22.5
22Edward Andrew Miguel

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

23.18
23Andrew Foster

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

25.16
24Mauricio Cardenas

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

27.2
25Rodney Edward Falvey

School of Business, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia

27.57
26Nora Lustig

Department of Economics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

27.91
27Norman V. Loayza

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

28.19
28James Schmitz

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

30.09
29Leonardo C. Gasparini

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

31.07
30Jeffrey Gale Williamson

31.89
31Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

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

33.63
32Dante Contreras

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

34.45
33Rodrigo Reis Soares

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

34.54
34Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

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

35.16
35Gary Fields

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

35.23
36Brian R. Copeland

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

35.55
37Raquel Bernal

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

36.07
38Luis Servén

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

36.73
39Roberto Rigobon

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

37.37
40Alberto Chong

Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

37.98
41Alain de Janvry

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

38.58
42Cesar A. Calderon

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

40.21
43Francisco H. G. Ferreira

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

40.46
44Eduardo Lora

41.2
45Juan-Camilo Cardenas

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

41.84
46Carmen Pages

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

42.02
47Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), United Nations, Santiago, Chile

44.32

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