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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Central & South America, as of May 2014

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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)

1.486754.53
2Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

3.096535.67
3World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

3.19404344.19
4Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

4.374538.35
5Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

5.584233.38
6National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.8348275.36
---Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

7.12923.38
7Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

7.699078.45
8Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

8.045340.66
9Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

8.124639.49
10Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

9.242824.2
---Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

9.2463.45
11Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

9.543930.49
12Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

12.064936.27
13Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

15.064039.18
14Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

15.119080.01
15Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

15.435844.62
16Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

15.573718.64
17Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

15.954035.5
---Economics Research, World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

16.89137113.68
---Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Santiago, Chile

17.042826.38
18International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

19.85340294.44
---Centro de Estudios Sobre Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes

Bogotá, Colombia

20.684934.94
19Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

21.045433.51
20School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

23.9920.81
21Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

24.183832.18
22Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

24.284234.36
23Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

24.374441.46
24Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

25.114332.91
25School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

26.052615.67
26Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

29.196754.1
27Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

32.953424
28Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

35.255442.74
29Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

36.222621.16
---Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS), Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

La Plata, Argentina

36.662113.93
30London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

36.68260182.08
31Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés

Buenos Aires, Argentina

38.251511.43
32Department of Economics, University College London (UCL)

London, United Kingdom

38.527155.11
33Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

38.9875.95
34Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

39.542118.11
---Economic Growth Center, Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

40.69117.4
---Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

41.89115.15
35Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

42.37157.57
36Department of Economics, George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

42.785839.66
37Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

42.94193165.79
38Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

43.392922.93
39Banco Central de Chile

Santiago, Chile

44.124541.84
40International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

45.25158140.62
41School of Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

46.134134.27
42Department of Economics, University of Haifa

Haifa, Israel

47.591311.47
43Ministerio de Proteccion Social, Government of Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

48.4711
44Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

50.552919.75
45Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

51.553635.3
---Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

52.524437.31
46Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

52.525244.6
---Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research, School of Economics, University of Manchester

Manchester, United Kingdom

52.99107.58
47Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

56.71212
48Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

57.062818.58
---Global Economy and Development Program, Brookings Institution

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

57.0694.7
49Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

58.713935.45
---Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

58.865546.87
50Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP), Fundação Getulio Vargas

São Paulo, Brazil

58.933731.53
---Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

59.271710.87
51Departamento de Economía, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

Buenos Aires, Argentina

60.111211.5
52Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

60.31149126.51
53Departamento Académico de Economía, Universidad del Pacífico

Lima, Peru

62.23935.63
54Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

63.153730.99
---Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE)

Paris, France

63.46555.71
55Department of Economics, Tulane University

New Orleans, Louisiana (USA)

63.841817.7
56Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

63.934332.47
---Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

65.632721.55
57Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

67.5727830.25
58Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

68.582519.91
59Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

69.2136.31
60Escuela de Negocios, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

69.381615.03
61Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

69.57146114.49
62Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

69.962926.28
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

70.235540.01
63Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

72.04156116.82
64Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

73.144035.86
65Escuela de Gobierno, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

Santiago, Chile

73.476.5
66Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

74.39635100.88
---Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

75.143926.47
67Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)

Lima, Peru

76.362016.99
---Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

77.4263.7
68Department of Economics, Korea University

Seoul, South Korea

77.712420.47
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

78.156649.64
69Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

London, United Kingdom

80.955118.52
70Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

81.43217137.76
71Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de la Administración, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

83.413829.81
---Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de la Administración, Universidad de la República

Montevideo, Uruguay

84.893327.65
---International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

86.386857.03
---Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

87.442522.46
72Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

87.445246.54
73Facultad de Economía, Universidad del Rosario

Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia

88.824635.29
74Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

89.268361.7
75Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

903633.04
76Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

90.22018.17
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

92.263526.81
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE)

Barcelona, Spain

92.528462.63
---Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

94.7576.86
77Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

95.723430.99
78Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

95.95171129.63
---ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

London, United Kingdom

102.472411.54
79School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

103.349059.86
80Departamento de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Lima, Peru

103.893227.46
81School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (USA)

104.9673.06
82Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

105.581715.2
83Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

106.244334.43
84Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), United Nations

Santiago, Chile

106.922420.94
85Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

107.255543.29
86International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Genève, Switzerland

108.193831.28
---Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, School of Economics, University of Nottingham

Nottingham, United Kingdom

109.373313.32
87FGV/EPGE Escola Brasileira de Economia e Finanças, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

109.862523.6
---Departamento de Economia, Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade, Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo, Brazil

111.622724.52
88Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv, Israel

111.752017.41
---International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

116.0232.42
89School of Business, Bond University

Gold Coast, Australia

118.343.85
90Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Canada

119.983432.62
---Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network (PREM), World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

120.173024.9
91Geneva School of Economics and Management, Université de Genève

Genève, Switzerland

122.432921.9
92Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Santa Barbara, California (USA)

122.563024.15
93Center for Global Development (CGD)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

122.911411.35
---Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

122.9622
94Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE)

Beijing, China

124.035752.89
---China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE)

Beijing, China

124.033126.39
95New Economic School (NES)

Moscow, Russia

125.144330.4
---Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

128.622318.72
96Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University

State College, Pennsylvania (USA)

128.622522.63
97Department of Economics, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York (USA)

129.514528.92
98Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

129.821.04
99Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

129.943427.37
100BI Handelshøyskolen

Oslo, Norway

130.542923.94
101Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

131.035043.92
102Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

131.122521.05
---The European Institute of Japanese Studies, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

Stockholm, Sweden

131.9622
103Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

132.28116101.87
---Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

132.286962.07
104Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky (USA)

133.151513.05

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

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
1James Tobin †

1.74
2Lawrence H. Summers

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

2.2
3Robert J. Barro

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

3.04
4Sebastian Edwards

Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA)

4.96
5Dani Rodrik

School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

6.94
6Daron Acemoglu

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

7.73
7Lawrence R. Klein †

7.91
8William Baumol

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

7.96
9Jere Richard Behrman

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

10.17
10Jose De Gregorio

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

12.6
11Kenneth S Rogoff

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

13.68
12Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

14.36
13Guido Tabellini

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

14.38
14Alberto Alesina

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

14.92
15Alejandro Gaviria

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

15.55
16Andrew Murray Weiss

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

16.62
17Maurice Obstfeld

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

16.68
18Ernesto Schargrodsky

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

20.53
19Herschel I. Grossman †

21.35
20Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel

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

21.76
21Ricardo Hausmann

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

22.99
22James Alan Robinson

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

23.01
23Keith Blackburn

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

23.82
24Sebastian Galiani

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

24.84
25Avner Bar-ilan

Department of Economics, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

25.11
26Costas Azariadis

Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

25.66
27Orazio Attanasio

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

26.28
28Torsten Persson

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

29.19
29Edward Andrew Miguel

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

29.8
30Nora Lustig

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

30.13
31Timothy J. Kehoe

Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

32.43
32Mariano Tommasi

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

32.58
33Roberto Chang

Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA)

35.3
34Eric A. Hanushek

Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)
CESifo, München, Germany

37.1
35Mauricio Cardenas

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

37.58
36Costas Meghir

ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom

37.99
37Norman V. Loayza

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

38.73
38Leonardo C. Gasparini

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

39.01
39Jeffrey Gale Williamson

41.59
40João Pedro Azevedo

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

41.85
41Juan-Camilo Cardenas

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

42.73
42Roberto Rigobon

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

43.12
43Alain de Janvry

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

43.92
44Raquel Bernal

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

44.63
45Andrew Foster

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

44.98
46Francisco H. G. Ferreira

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

45.56
47Dante Contreras

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

47.41
48Rodrigo Reis Soares

Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP), Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, Brazil

48.26
49Brian R. Copeland

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

48.32
50Gary Fields

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

48.56
51Eduardo M.R.A. Engel

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

49.25
52Eduardo Lora

49.89
53Jean-Marc Robin

Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po, Paris, France

50.24
54Alejandra Mizala

Centro de Economía Aplicada, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

51.93
55Alberto Chong

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

52.46
56Guillermo Cruces

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany

52.62
57Carmen Pages

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

57.33
58Ricardo 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

57.8
59Hugo Rolando Ñopo

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

57.93
60Eduardo Fernandez-Arias

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

57.98
61Cesar A. Calderon

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

58.39
62Manuel R. Agosin

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

59.93
63Luis Servén

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

60.15
64Luiz de Mello

Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France

60.34

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