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For New England (United States), these are 143 institutions and 1311 authors.
Rank | W.Rank | Author | Score |
1 | [1] | Andrei Shleifer Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 2.17 |
2 | [5] | Daron Acemoglu Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3.39 |
3 | [2] | Robert J. Barro Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3.5 |
4 | [6] | John Y. Campbell Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5.79 |
5 | [7] | Kenneth S Rogoff Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6.05 |
6 | [8] | Martin S. Feldstein National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7.79 |
7 | [4] | Peter C. B. Phillips Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 8.65 |
8 | [11] | Carmen M. Reinhart Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10.53 |
9 | [13] | Lawrence H. Summers Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 10.93 |
10 | [16] | James H. Stock Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11.84 |
11 | [14] | Elhanan Helpman Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12.07 |
12 | [18] | N. Gregory Mankiw Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13.47 |
13 | [21] | Edward Ludwig Glaeser Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13.95 |
14 | [22] | Donald W. K. Andrews Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 15.03 |
15 | [25] | Jeffrey Alexander Frankel Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 15.39 |
16 | [10] | Christopher F Baum Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 16.19 |
17 | [24] | James Poterba Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 17.77 |
18 | [19] | Drew Fudenberg Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 18.56 |
19 | [29] | Kenneth R. French Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 21.17 |
20 | [32] | Jerry A. Hausman Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 21.22 |
21 | [30] | Robert G. King Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 21.79 |
22 | [33] | Whitney Newey Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 22.06 |
23 | [31] | Lawrence F. Katz Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 23.03 |
24 | [42] | Robert J. Shiller Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 24.7 |
25 | [43] | Oded Galor Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 24.92 |
26 | [36] | Oliver D. Hart Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25.06 |
27 | [44] | Robert C. Merton Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 25.44 |
28 | [38] | Peter A. Diamond Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26.72 |
29 | [12] | Alberto Alesina Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26.84 |
30 | [59] | Richard J. Zeckhauser Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26.85 |
31 | [39] | Rafael La Porta Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 26.9 |
32 | [45] | Ricardo J. Caballero Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28.48 |
33 | [53] | Joshua D Angrist Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28.76 |
34 | [46] | Jeremy C. Stein Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 28.83 |
35 | [56] | Mark R. Rosenzweig Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 30.07 |
36 | [47] | Alvin E. Roth Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30.81 |
37 | [61] | Pierre Perron Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 30.91 |
38 | [81] | Martin Shubik Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 32.5 |
39 | [68] | Julio Rotemberg Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 36.87 |
40 | [64] | Martin L. Weitzman Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 40.84 |
41 | [72] | Larry G. Epstein Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 41.33 |
42 | [89] | William D. Nordhaus Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 41.76 |
43 | [73] | George Borjas Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42 |
44 | [82] | Jonathan Eaton Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 43.08 |
45 | [77] | David M. Cutler Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 43.56 |
46 | [26] | Richard B. Freeman Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44.29 |
47 | [85] | David N. Weil Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 45.2 |
48 | [91] | Peter Howitt Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 45.54 |
49 | [71] | Laurence J. Kotlikoff Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 46.61 |
50 | [94] | Esther Duflo Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48.23 |
51 | [83] | Bengt Holmstrom Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 48.57 |
52 | [86] | Claudia Goldin Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 50.28 |
53 | [107] | Amartya Sen Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 51.7 |
54 | [93] | David Isaac Laibson Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 52.05 |
55 | [20] | David E. Card Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 54.86 |
56 | [100] | Marc J. Melitz Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 55.98 |
57 | [103] | Joseph G. Altonji Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 56.21 |
58 | [113] | Josh Lerner Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 57.18 |
59 | [110] | Andrew W. Lo Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 57.65 |
60 | [109] | James Alan Robinson Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60.08 |
61 | [106] | Jonathan Gruber Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 60.47 |
62 | [122] | Robert S. Pindyck Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 63.08 |
63 | [120] | David Autor Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 64.55 |
64 | [116] | Andrew B. Bernard Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 64.92 |
65 | [108] | Glenn Ellison Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 65.47 |
66 | [136] | Dilip Mookherjee Institute for Economic Development, Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 65.76 |
67 | [130] | James E. Anderson Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 67.19 |
68 | [125] | David Wise Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 67.57 |
69 | [54] | Michael C. Jensen Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 68.65 |
70 | [127] | Sendhil Mullainathan Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 71.62 |
71 | [128] | Athanasios Orphanides Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 72.89 |
72 | [133] | Ray C. Fair Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 73.12 |
73 | [79] | Simon Johnson Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 73.77 |
74 | [143] | Neil Shephard Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 74.76 |
75 | [146] | Richard Schmalensee Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 74.92 |
76 | [147] | Gary Gorton School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 75.29 |
77 | [160] | T. N. Srinivasan Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 78.83 |
78 | [171] | Edward J. Kane Finance Department, Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 80.79 |
79 | [178] | John Roemer Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 81.03 |
80 | [41] | Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 82.22 |
81 | [169] | William N. Goetzmann School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 83.06 |
82 | [161] | Robert Gibbons Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 86.5 |
83 | [149] | Simon Gilchrist Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 86.58 |
84 | [165] | Arthur Lewbel Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 86.93 |
85 | [170] | Robert M. Solow Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87.07 |
86 | [185] | Lant Pritchett Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87.14 |
87 | [177] | Paul Joskow Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 88.99 |
88 | [174] | Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 91.23 |
89 | [163] | Samuel Kortum Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 91.36 |
90 | [195] | T. Paul Schultz Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 93.01 |
91 | [180] | Christina Paxson Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 94.19 |
92 | [183] | Bruce Sacerdote Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 94.24 |
93 | [66] | Campbell R. Harvey Finance Area, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 94.47 |
94 | [187] | Jeffrey C. Fuhrer Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 94.57 |
95 | [200] | Dean S. Karlan Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 95.32 |
96 | [172] | Michael Whinston Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 95.44 |
97 | [231] | Louis Putterman Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 95.65 |
98 | [197] | Peter N. Ireland Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 97.85 |
99 | [199] | Jonathan Skinner Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 99.03 |
100 | [204] | Roberto Rigobon Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 99.26 |
101 | [153] | Stephen Cecchetti Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (USA) | 101.08 |
102 | [111] | Enrique G. Mendoza National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 101.09 |
103 | [215] | Raj Chetty Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 104.54 |
104 | [191] | Doug Staiger Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 105.08 |
105 | [76] | John H. Cochrane National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 105.12 |
106 | [175] | Jerry Green Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 105.99 |
107 | [203] | Eytan Sheshinski Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 107.23 |
108 | [210] | Susanto Basu Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 109.01 |
109 | [219] | Peter K. Schott School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109.19 |
110 | [230] | Ricardo Hausmann Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 109.42 |
111 | [188] | Marianne Baxter Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 109.97 |
112 | [223] | Andrew Metrick School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 110.01 |
113 | [264] | Eric Rosengren Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 110.58 |
114 | [226] | Steven Shavell National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 110.62 |
115 | [229] | Kenneth Neil Kuttner Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA) | 112.42 |
116 | [284] | David Colander Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont (USA) | 112.6 |
117 | [246] | Peter Gottschalk Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 115.57 |
118 | [234] | Rafael Di Tella Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 115.65 |
119 | [235] | Michael Greenstone Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 116.92 |
120 | [87] | Robert M. Townsend Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 117.04 |
121 | [220] | Pol Antras Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 117.59 |
122 | [267] | David Canning Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 117.69 |
123 | [272] | Yannis M. Ioannides Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 124.15 |
124 | [248] | Jonathan A. Parker Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 125.41 |
125 | [239] | Kevin Lang Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 127.54 |
126 | [181] | Fabio Schiantarelli Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 129.16 |
127 | [256] | Steven Berry Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 129.19 |
128 | [276] | Douglas A. Irwin Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 129.77 |
129 | [282] | Eric Michel Renault Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 131.25 |
130 | [263] | Brigitte C. Madrian Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 131.99 |
131 | [273] | Alberto Abadie Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 132.28 |
132 | [255] | Jeffrey B. Liebman Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 133.95 |
133 | [343] | Thomas Miceli Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 134.36 |
134 | [261] | Owen A. Lamont Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 134.59 |
135 | [114] | Christopher Carroll Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 136.78 |
136 | [285] | Nathan Nunn Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 137.88 |
137 | [299] | Shyam Sunder School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 138.16 |
138 | [277] | Lucian Bebchuk John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business, Harvard School of Law, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 138.43 |
139 | [274] | Alan L. Gustman Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 138.46 |
140 | [119] | Michael Grossman Department of Economics, Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York City, New York (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 140.58 |
141 | [278] | Larry Samuelson Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 141.37 |
142 | [324] | Robert Owen Mendelsohn School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 141.66 |
143 | [62] | Sergio T Rebelo Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom | 142.1 |
144 | [293] | Christopher R. Udry Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 142.44 |
145 | [292] | Kristin Forbes Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 142.84 |
146 | [287] | Dirk Bergemann Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 143.34 |
147 | [307] | Joseph Newhouse National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 143.87 |
148 | [295] | Jeffrey A Miron Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 144.3 |
149 | [309] | David Bloom Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 145.49 |
150 | [311] | Robert Andrew Margo Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 146.71 |
151 | [288] | Deborah J. Lucas Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 147.25 |
152 | [300] | Emmanuel Farhi Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 148.41 |
153 | [312] | Gilbert Metcalf Department of Economics, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 148.52 |
154 | [124] | Adam Jaffe Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research, Wellington, New Zealand | 150.53 |
155 | [350] | Peter J. Montiel Economics Department, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA) | 151.13 |
156 | [326] | Joe Peek Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 152.35 |
157 | [315] | Louis Kaplow National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 153.09 |
158 | [313] | Nina Pavcnik Economics Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 154.5 |
159 | [325] | Victor Matheson Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (USA) | 155.67 |
160 | [357] | William Kerr Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 158.02 |
161 | [319] | Tayfun Sönmez Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 159.1 |
162 | [131] | Olivia S. Mitchell National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Pension Research Council, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 159.92 |
163 | [328] | Richard J. Murnane National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 160.3 |
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