For Collective Decision-Making, these are 1327 authors affiliated with 1834 institutions.
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Rank | Institution | Score | Authors | Author shares |
1 | Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (USA) | 1.72 | 51 | 2.14 |
2 | Department of Economics, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1.92 | 70 | 1.06 |
3 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4.22 | 46 | 1.49 |
4 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4.68 | 493 | 1.9 |
5 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 5.76 | 42 | 1.83 |
6 | Economics Department, Brown University Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 6.85 | 60 | 4.52 |
7 | Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Barcelona, Spain | 7.05 | 157 | 7.58 |
8 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 7.39 | 54 | 1.63 |
9 | Paris School of Economics Paris, France | 7.82 | 188 | 5.23 |
10 | Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 8.22 | 55 | 0.7 |
11 | London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 8.38 | 298 | 6.15 |
12 | Department of Economics, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 11.98 | 48 | 0.65 |
--- | Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE) London, United Kingdom | 17.33 | 61 | 1.48 |
13 | Brookings Institution Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 17.58 | 30 | 0.65 |
14 | Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 18.05 | 21 | 0.99 |
15 | Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 18.14 | 166 | 6.33 |
16 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California (USA) | 18.22 | 17 | 1.73 |
17 | Department of Economics, Stanford University Stanford, California (USA) | 18.89 | 56 | 0.87 |
18 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom | 19.25 | 90 | 4.34 |
19 | Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet Stockholm, Sweden | 21.86 | 29 | 2.01 |
--- | Economic Studies, Brookings Institution Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 22.03 | 12 | 0.29 |
20 | Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD) La Jolla, California (USA) | 22.5 | 44 | 1.43 |
21 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom | 22.63 | 71 | 4.98 |
22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 24 | 52 | 0.76 |
23 | Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 28.14 | 59 | 3.53 |
--- | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 28.95 | 77 | 3.84 |
24 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada | 29.99 | 63 | 2.65 |
25 | Department of Economics, Cornell University Ithaca, New York (USA) | 32.02 | 50 | 0.59 |
--- | Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), School of Economics, University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom | 34 | 22 | 2.58 |
26 | Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada | 37.06 | 42 | 1.05 |
--- | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Barcelona, Spain | 37.89 | 44 | 2.42 |
27 | ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V. München, Germany | 38.05 | 154 | 2.08 |
28 | SKEMA Business School Lille, France | 38.12 | 11 | 0.17 |
29 | Monash Business School, Monash University Melbourne, Australia | 38.21 | 138 | 4.94 |
--- | Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Barcelona, Spain | 39.12 | 34 | 2.42 |
30 | Department of Economics, New York University (NYU) New York City, New York (USA) | 39.37 | 55 | 0.76 |
31 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 40.03 | 72 | 0.83 |
32 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 40.35 | 37 | 1.15 |
33 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich Zürich, Switzerland | 42.46 | 136 | 3.56 |
34 | Economics Department, Georgetown University Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 42.62 | 42 | 3.51 |
--- | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Barcelona, Spain | 42.87 | 87 | 3.27 |
35 | Department of Economics, Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 43.01 | 172 | 3.96 |
36 | Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium | 43.66 | 168 | 5.52 |
--- | Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University Melbourne, Australia | 44.06 | 64 | 3.84 |
37 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) Rennes/Caen, France | 45.72 | 92 | 6.09 |
38 | Department of Economics, Duke University Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 47.19 | 47 | 2.02 |
39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 49.24 | 39 | 1.17 |
40 | Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn, Germany | 49.41 | 688 | 1.41 |
41 | Economics Department, Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 49.74 | 49 | 1.59 |
42 | World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 50.12 | 486 | 4.29 |
--- | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 51.01 | 34 | 1.74 |
43 | Inter-American Development Bank Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 51.68 | 106 | 1.3 |
44 | École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 54.23 | 124 | 1.81 |
45 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University Stanford, California (USA) | 55.61 | 35 | 1.66 |
46 | Economics Department, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire (USA) | 56.69 | 34 | 0.53 |
47 | Department of Economics, Rice University Houston, Texas (USA) | 57.26 | 16 | 1.07 |
48 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) London, United Kingdom | 58.56 | 303 | 0.81 |
49 | Economics Department, George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 59.45 | 36 | 1.43 |
50 | Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Orange, California (USA) | 61.52 | 46 | 2.48 |
--- | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), École des Sciences Économiques de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 61.54 | 64 | 1.59 |
51 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom | 64.22 | 72 | 1.09 |
52 | Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel | 65.74 | 18 | 0.83 |
53 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo Oslo, Norway | 65.93 | 54 | 2.1 |
54 | Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 66.29 | 31 | 0.82 |
55 | Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz Konstanz, Germany | 66.34 | 43 | 2.09 |
--- | Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Barcelona, Spain | 66.92 | 23 | 1.83 |
56 | National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia | 67.51 | 358 | 7.99 |
57 | Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 68.1 | 34 | 0.29 |
58 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden | 68.93 | 64 | 2.46 |
59 | CESifo München, Germany | 69.9 | 273 | 1.24 |
60 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada | 70.83 | 43 | 1.84 |
--- | European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles Bruxelles, Belgium | 72.89 | 71 | 2.93 |
--- | Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Orange, California (USA) | 73.04 | 40 | 1.58 |
61 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München München, Germany | 73.49 | 67 | 2.96 |
62 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 73.5 | 44 | 0.82 |
63 | Department of Economics, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 74.59 | 32 | 1.67 |
64 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands | 75.26 | 84 | 3.08 |
65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland (USA) | 78.89 | 48 | 0.78 |
66 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, California (USA) | 79.04 | 42 | 0.65 |
67 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 80.45 | 39 | 0.58 |
--- | Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University New York City, New York (USA) | 82.09 | 29 | 0.77 |
--- | International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 83.43 | 3 | 0.11 |
68 | Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim Mannheim, Germany | 84.22 | 50 | 4.08 |
69 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 87.16 | 34 | 1.4 |
70 | Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland | 87.3 | 66 | 0.8 |
71 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 87.58 | 39 | 0.25 |
72 | Department of Economics, Boston University Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 89.68 | 56 | 0.37 |
73 | School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands | 90.49 | 93 | 1.43 |
74 | Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 91.81 | 9 | 0.51 |
--- | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 94.21 | 27 | 1.02 |
75 | Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 94.54 | 30 | 1.81 |
76 | School of Economics, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom | 95.65 | 36 | 0.32 |
77 | Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Université de Cergy-Pontoise Cergy-Pontoise, France | 96.48 | 53 | 3 |
78 | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna Bologna, Italy | 98.57 | 105 | 1.94 |
79 | UNSW Business School, UNSW (Australia) Sydney, Australia | 99.64 | 82 | 1.95 |
80 | Economics Department, Yale University New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 101.05 | 49 | 0.39 |
81 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium | 101.44 | 136 | 2.78 |
--- | Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 101.67 | 4 | 0.15 |
82 | Department of Economics, Leicester University Leicester, United Kingdom | 101.9 | 33 | 3.31 |
--- | Economics Research, World Bank Group Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 102.01 | 142 | 0.77 |
83 | Department of Economics, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) | 102.05 | 41 | 0.56 |
--- | School of Economics, UNSW Business School, UNSW (Australia) Sydney, Australia | 102.25 | 49 | 1.94 |
84 | Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milano, Italy | 103.07 | 15 | 1.22 |
85 | Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel | 104.29 | 11 | 1.03 |
--- | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) Marseille, France | 107.86 | 94 | 2.75 |
86 | Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF) Roma, Italy | 108.93 | 23 | 0.56 |
87 | Department of Economics, Carleton University Ottawa, Canada | 109.25 | 52 | 2.34 |
88 | School of Economics, University of East Anglia Norwich, United Kingdom | 110 | 31 | 2.54 |
89 | Saïd Business School, Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 110.82 | 31 | 0.6 |
90 | School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 111.85 | 66 | 3.65 |
91 | Department of Political Economy, King's College London, United Kingdom | 112 | 23 | 3.77 |
92 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 112.56 | 38 | 0.59 |
93 | Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France | 112.61 | 111 | 2.51 |
94 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario London, Canada | 113.87 | 46 | 1.57 |
95 | Economics Department, University of California-Davis Davis, California (USA) | 113.93 | 44 | 0.59 |
96 | W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester Rochester, New York (USA) | 114.56 | 2 | 1.1 |
97 | Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain | 114.93 | 117 | 3.68 |
98 | Department of Economics, University of Southern California Los Angeles, California (USA) | 115 | 42 | 0.3 |
99 | Department of Economics, University of Birmingham Birmingham, United Kingdom | 116.9 | 36 | 2.21 |
100 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel | 119.19 | 24 | 0.4 |
101 | Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington Seattle, Washington (USA) | 121.24 | 11 | 1.33 |
102 | Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine Irvine, California (USA) | 122.7 | 36 | 0.66 |
103 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 122.77 | 389 | 1.18 |
--- | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 123.73 | 16 | 0.21 |
104 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 123.73 | 22 | 0.21 |
105 | Department of Economics, Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 123.76 | 54 | 0.56 |
106 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés Buenos Aires, Argentina | 125.49 | 27 | 0.7 |
--- | Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece | 127.39 | 17 | 0.5 |
107 | University of Piraeus Piraeus, Greece | 127.39 | 49 | 0.5 |
108 | Sciences économiques, Sciences Po Paris, France | 128.15 | 101 | 1.83 |
--- | Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain | 131.02 | 34 | 3.27 |
109 | WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Wien, Austria | 132.61 | 63 | 1.27 |
110 | Economics Department, Queen's University Kingston, Canada | 135.32 | 56 | 1.81 |
--- | Experimental Economics Center, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 135.46 | 6 | 0.5 |
--- | Department of Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University Logan, Utah (USA) | 138.24 | 15 | 0.66 |
111 | Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University Logan, Utah (USA) | 138.24 | 15 | 0.66 |
--- | Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany | 143.62 | 23 | 1.15 |
112 | Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg, Germany | 143.62 | 25 | 1.15 |
--- | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), Paris School of Economics Paris, France | 145.33 | 25 | 0.96 |
113 | Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 146.57 | 75 | 0.91 |
114 | Economics Department, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 146.67 | 64 | 0.71 |
115 | Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet København, Denmark | 147.33 | 69 | 3.2 |
116 | Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) Beijing, China | 147.6 | 63 | 0.25 |
--- | China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) Beijing, China | 147.6 | 29 | 0.25 |
117 | Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University Tokyo, Japan | 147.71 | 27 | 1.15 |
118 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 147.87 | 37 | 0.32 |
119 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Israel | 149.12 | 31 | 1.14 |
--- | Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po Paris, France | 149.35 | 40 | 1.53 |
120 | Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino Torino, Italy | 149.37 | 49 | 1.36 |
121 | Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft München, Germany | 150.92 | 5 | 0.68 |
122 | Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Málaga Málaga, Spain | 151.7 | 30 | 3 |
--- | Departamento de Teoría e Historia Económica, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Málaga Málaga, Spain | 151.7 | 13 | 3 |
123 | Department of Economics, Appalachian State University Boone, North Carolina (USA) | 152.01 | 21 | 2.68 |
124 | Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Gemeinschaftsgütern, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Bonn, Germany | 152.95 | 20 | 1.23 |
125 | London Business School (LBS) London, United Kingdom | 153.85 | 32 | 0.92 |
126 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel Basel, Switzerland | 154.04 | 39 | 0.34 |
--- | Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et Quantitative (GREMAQ), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Toulouse, France | 154.21 | 46 | 1.51 |
127 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain | 154.76 | 59 | 3.59 |
128 | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) Stockholm, Sweden | 154.94 | 71 | 2.06 |
129 | Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) Trondheim, Norway | 159.33 | 16 | 0.57 |
130 | Department of Economics, European University Institute Firenze, Italy | 162.18 | 35 | 0.94 |
--- | KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) Zürich, Switzerland | 163.14 | 36 | 0.69 |
131 | School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London London, United Kingdom | 168.3 | 41 | 1.52 |
132 | Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland | 169.25 | 26 | 3.75 |
--- | Wiener Zentrum für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien Wien, Austria | 170.23 | 14 | 1.28 |
133 | HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) Jouy-en-Josas, France | 173.9 | 29 | 1.45 |
134 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands | 174.43 | 110 | 2.91 |
135 | Economics Department, University of Essex Colchester, United Kingdom | 175.19 | 46 | 2.64 |
136 | School of Economics, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia | 175.26 | 81 | 1.5 |
137 | Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 175.87 | 5 | 0.09 |
138 | Department of Economics, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 176.49 | 30 | 0.55 |
139 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 176.82 | 39 | 0.17 |
--- | Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven Leuven, Belgium | 177.75 | 62 | 1.36 |
140 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 177.79 | 26 | 0.59 |
141 | Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) Roma, Italy | 178.18 | 39 | 2.44 |
141 | Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes Bogotá, Colombia | 178.18 | 66 | 2.57 |
--- | Centre for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, Oxford University Oxford, United Kingdom | 178.87 | 11 | 0.21 |
143 | Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea Bilbao, Spain | 180.31 | 96 | 2.13 |
144 | Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel | 180.59 | 16 | 0.91 |
145 | Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 182.11 | 35 | 0.79 |
146 | Ekonomihögskolan, Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden | 182.46 | 92 | 1.5 |
147 | Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Italy | 183.4 | 75 | 1.87 |
--- | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan, Lunds Universitet Lund, Sweden | 185.13 | 65 | 1.49 |
--- | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 185.16 | 23 | 0.56 |
148 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 187.33 | 42 | 1.74 |
149 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Verona Verona, Italy | 188.39 | 48 | 2.02 |
--- | Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Verona Verona, Italy | 188.39 | 47 | 2.02 |
150 | Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) Bergen, Norway | 190.9 | 86 | 1.85 |
--- | Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milano, Italy | 191.01 | 35 | 1.85 |
--- | Department of Economics, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden | 191.7 | 18 | 0.44 |
151 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet Uppsala, Sweden | 192.26 | 64 | 1.37 |
152 | College of Business and Economics, Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 193.52 | 48 | 1.34 |
153 | Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 194.19 | 74 | 1.47 |
--- | Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) Athens, Greece | 195.9 | 22 | 0.55 |
154 | Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy | 197.54 | 48 | 3.81 |
155 | Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Facultät, Universität Bayreuth Bayreuth, Germany | 198.23 | 28 | 1.91 |
--- | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands | 198.63 | 27 | 0.86 |
156 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands | 200.21 | 97 | 1.07 |
157 | Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Groningen, Netherlands | 200.6 | 80 | 1.38 |
158 | Department of Economics, University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom | 201.53 | 74 | 0.8 |
159 | École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Montréal, Canada | 202.92 | 46 | 1.57 |
--- | Département des Sciences Économiques, École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Montréal, Canada | 202.92 | 41 | 1.57 |
160 | Department of Economics, University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada | 203.75 | 39 | 1.78 |
161 | Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht, Universität Siegen Siegen, Germany | 206.13 | 8 | 0.76 |
--- | The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics and East European Economies (SITE), Handelshögskolan i Stockholm Stockholm, Sweden | 207.11 | 13 | 1.75 |
--- | Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e Strategie d'Impresa (DEMS), Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Milano, Italy | 207.25 | 41 | 2.81 |
162 | Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus Universitet Aarhus, Denmark | 208.31 | 123 | 0.63 |
163 | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST) France | 208.46 | 93 | 1.34 |
--- | Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 208.94 | 41 | 0.59 |
164 | Department of Economics, McMaster University Hamilton, Canada | 211.83 | 45 | 1.04 |
165 | School of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, South Korea | 212.31 | 12 | 1 |
166 | Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie Karlsruhe, Germany | 213.9 | 13 | 0.53 |
167 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 215.86 | 15 | 0.15 |
168 | School of Management, Kochi University of Technology Kochi, Japan | 218.36 | 9 | 2.13 |
169 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York York, United Kingdom | 218.8 | 84 | 2.16 |
170 | BI Handelshøyskolen Oslo, Norway | 220.08 | 42 | 1.11 |
171 | Tinbergen Instituut Amsterdam, Netherlands | 220.73 | 138 | 1.07 |
172 | Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" Roma, Italy | 221.43 | 100 | 2.12 |
173 | Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP), Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) São Paulo, Brazil | 225.15 | 46 | 1.98 |
174 | School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Bristol Bristol, United Kingdom | 227.6 | 54 | 2.2 |
175 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 229.83 | 26 | 1.28 |
176 | École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris, France | 232.78 | 9 | 0.25 |
177 | Bank of Thailand Bangkok, Thailand | 234.33 | 4 | 1 |
--- | Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet Göteborg, Sweden | 235.33 | 61 | 0.56 |
178 | Handelshögskolan, Göteborgs Universitet Göteborg, Sweden | 235.33 | 71 | 0.56 |
179 | Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Girona Girona, Spain | 235.46 | 18 | 1.5 |
--- | Departament d'Economia, Facultat de Ciències Econòmiques i Empresarials, Universitat de Girona Girona, Spain | 235.46 | 18 | 1.5 |
180 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Bonn, Germany | 235.46 | 52 | 0.75 |
181 | Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Canberra, Australia | 235.78 | 153 | 1.53 |
182 | Department of Economics, McGill University Montréal, Canada | 235.8 | 34 | 0.23 |
183 | Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim, Germany | 236.25 | 147 | 2.67 |
Rank | Author | Score |
1 | George A. Akerlof Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 1.84 |
2 | Daron Acemoglu Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 3.61 |
3 | Guido Tabellini Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 4.07 |
4 | Sherwin Rosen † | 4.12 |
5 | Robert W. Vishny Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 4.9 |
6 | Thomas R. Palfrey Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA) | 7.7 |
7 | Alberto Alesina Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8.34 |
8 | Andrei Shleifer Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11.18 |
9 | Eric S. Maskin Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 11.38 |
10 | James Alan Robinson Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 11.83 |
11 | William F. Shughart II Department of Economics and Finance, Jon M. Huntsman School of Business, Utah State University, Logan, Utah (USA) | 13.33 |
12 | Hugo F. Sonnenschein Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 14.27 |
13 | Torsten Persson Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden | 14.34 |
14 | Jeffrey Scot Banks † | 16.99 |
15 | Roger B. Myerson Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 17.57 |
16 | Rafael La Porta National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 19.86 |
17 | Salvador Barberà Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), Barcelona, Spain | 20.25 |
18 | Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes SKEMA Business School, Lille, France | 20.42 |
19 | Pranab K. Bardhan Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 20.71 |
20 | Herschel I. Grossman † | 21.31 |
21 | Matthew O. Jackson Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 23.22 |
22 | Xavier Sala-i-Martin Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA) | 23.53 |
23 | Timothy J. Besley Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 23.91 |
24 | Stephen Coate Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA) | 26.11 |
25 | Elhanan Helpman Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 27.41 |
26 | William Easterly National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 30.85 |
27 | Antonio M Merlo Department of Economics, Rice University, Houston, Texas (USA) | 31.09 |
28 | Roland J. Benabou Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany | 31.13 |
29 | Hans Gersbach CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany | 31.57 |
30 | Alessandra Casella Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA) | 32.09 |
31 | Martin J. Osborne Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada | 35.57 |
32 | Philip Keefer Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 35.79 |
33 | Dennis C. Mueller Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria | 36.42 |
34 | Toke S Aidt Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom | 36.97 |
35 | Shmuel Nitzan Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel | 37.87 |
36 | Gene Grossman International Economics Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 39.06 |
37 | Steven Shavell National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39.2 |
38 | James M. Snyder Jr. Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 42.85 |
39 | Jean-François Laslier Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 43.14 |
40 | Gérard Roland Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 43.75 |
41 | Simon Johnson National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 44.09 |
42 | Steven J. Brams | 44.45 |
43 | Bruno S. Frey Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 44.79 |
44 | Niklas Potrafke ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 45.96 |
45 | Edward Ludwig Glaeser Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 47.28 |
46 | Louis Putterman Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 47.95 |
47 | Ernst Fehr Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland | 48.27 |
48 | Francesco Trebbi Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | 48.42 |
49 | Mattias K Polborn Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 48.63 |
50 | Tommaso Nannicini Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 49.22 |
51 | Kai A. Konrad Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, München, Germany | 49.57 |
52 | John List Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 50.42 |
53 | Konstantin Sonin Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 53.4 |
54 | David Easley Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (USA) | 53.86 |
55 | Ian Gale Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 54.19 |
56 | John Duggan W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York (USA) | 54.29 |
57 | Charles de Bartolome Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 59.03 |
58 | Joel Sobel Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 59.9 |
59 | James Andreoni Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 61.54 |
60 | Gikas A. Hardouvelis Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece | 61.73 |
61 | Matthew E. Kahn Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 62.18 |
62 | John H. Kagel Department of Economics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 62.5 |
63 | Ben Lockwood Centre for Business Taxation, Saïd Business School, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom | 62.64 |
64 | Jean-Robert Tyran Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria Wiener Zentrum für experimentelle Wirtschaftsforschung, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Wien, Wien, Austria | 62.98 |
65 | Massimo Morelli Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy | 63.26 |
66 | Susan K. Laury Experimental Economics Center, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 65.04 |
67 | Ragnar Torvik Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway | 67.48 |
68 | Urs Fischbacher Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany | 68.08 |
69 | Daniel J. Seidmann Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 69.17 |
70 | David Strömberg Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden | 70.36 |
71 | Bezalel Peleg Center for the Study of Rationality, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel | 71.58 |
72 | Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom | 71.68 |
73 | Bradley T. Ewing Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas (USA) | 74.08 |
74 | Arthur Jan Hendricus Christoffel Schram Centre for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision-Making (CREED), Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Department of Economics, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy | 74.96 |
75 | Andrew Foster Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 76.86 |
76 | Simon Gächter Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), School of Economics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom | 76.87 |
77 | Thomas Nechyba Department of Economics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 77.69 |
78 | Marco Battaglini Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy | 77.89 |
79 | Mariano Tommasi Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina | 80.52 |
80 | Kevin Roberts Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom | 81.08 |
81 | Frederico Finan Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 82.64 |
82 | Roberto A. Weber Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland | 83.38 |
83 | Jarrad Harford Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (USA) | 85.78 |
84 | Allan Drazen Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (USA) | 85.89 |
85 | Werner Güth Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS), Roma, Italy | 87.08 |
86 | Brian G. Knight Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 87.25 |
87 | Reiner Eichenberger Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland | 89.13 |
88 | Amihai Glazer Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 89.54 |
89 | Micael Castanheira European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium | 90.26 |
90 | Gabrielle Demange Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 91.86 |
91 | George Alogoskoufis Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Athens, Greece | 92.77 |
92 | Thomas Stratmann CESifo, München, Germany ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 92.97 |
93 | Michael Watts † | 93.7 |
94 | Timothy Cason Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 94.28 |
95 | Stefano DellaVigna Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 94.64 |
96 | Alois Stutzer Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland | 95.54 |
97 | Andrew J. Oswald Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom | 96.15 |
98 | Cesar Martinelli Economics Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 97.68 |
99 | Joan Esteban Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE), Barcelona, Spain | 103.12 |
100 | Edward Andrew Miguel Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 104.51 |
101 | Eyal Winter Department of Economics, Leicester University, Leicester, United Kingdom Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel | 105.02 |
102 | Francisco J. Ruge-Murcia Department of Economics, McGill University, Montréal, Canada | 105.7 |
103 | Dan Usher Economics Department, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada | 106.42 |
104 | Clemens Dieter Puppe Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany | 106.73 |
105 | Pierre Yared Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA) | 107.41 |
106 | Tomas Sjostrom Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 109.7 |
107 | Minseong Kim School of Economics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea | 110.02 |
108 | Thierry A. Verdier Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 110.27 |
109 | Casey Mulligan Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 111.74 |
110 | Francesco Caselli Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 112.64 |
111 | Axel Dreher Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany | 112.84 |
112 | Rajiv Vohra Economics Department, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 113.7 |
113 | Akira Okada Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan | 114.14 |
114 | Dennis Leech Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom | 114.91 |
115 | Jeremy Greenwood Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 115.68 |
116 | Michela Redoano Department of Economics, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom | 117.34 |
117 | Jacob K Goeree School of Economics, UNSW Business School, UNSW (Australia), Sydney, Australia | 118.39 |
118 | Michael Smart Department of Economics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada | 122.27 |
119 | Peter H. Egger Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland | 124.12 |
120 | James Raymond Vreeland | 124.31 |
121 | David M. Levy Center for the Study of Public Choice (CSPC), Economics Department, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 124.35 |
122 | Yunyong Thaicharoen Bank of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand | 124.89 |
123 | Bard Harstad Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo, Oslo, Norway | 125.34 |
124 | Panu Poutvaara ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany | 126.06 |
125 | Andrea Mattozzi Department of Economics, European University Institute, Firenze, Italy | 126.58 |
126 | Arlington Walton Williams Department of Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (USA) | 126.61 |
127 | Federico Revelli Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy | 128.57 |
128 | Per G. Fredriksson Economics Department, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky (USA) | 129.44 |
129 | Philip E. Graves Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (USA) | 131.32 |
130 | Maurice Salles Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM), Rennes/Caen, France | 131.48 |
131 | Stefan Voigt Institut für Recht und Ökonomik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany | 133.73 |
132 | 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) | 134.45 |
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