Rank | W.Rank | Author | Score |
1 | [2] | Emmanuel Saez Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 1.76 |
2 | [3] | Yuriy Gorodnichenko Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 3.92 |
3 | [1] | Nicholas Bloom Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 4.18 |
4 | [5] | Gabriel Zucman Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 5.26 |
5 | [7] | Giovanni Peri Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 6.06 |
6 | [12] | Barry Julian Eichengreen Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 7.12 |
7 | [4] | Patrick M. Kline Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 7.77 |
8 | [8] | Guido Imbens Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 9.52 |
9 | [9] | Amit Seru Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 12.34 |
10 | [11] | Robert C. Feenstra Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 12.65 |
11 | [10] | Alan M. Taylor Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 12.79 |
12 | [16] | M Hashem Pesaran Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 13.83 |
13 | [26] | Matthew E. Kahn Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 15.27 |
14 | [14] | Gary Charness Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 15.41 |
15 | [30] | Joshua Aizenman Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 18.68 |
16 | [17] | Matthew O. Jackson Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 19.58 |
17 | [24] | Susan Carleton Athey Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 22.23 |
18 | [18] | Oscar Jorda Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 22.63 |
19 | [23] | Ross Levine Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 23.84 |
20 | [27] | Robert W. Fairlie Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 24.26 |
21 | [13] | Valerie Ann Ramey Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 24.59 |
22 | [31] | David Neumark Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 24.74 |
23 | [19] | A. Colin Cameron Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 24.8 |
24 | [21] | Uri Gneezy Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) Rady School of Management, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 25.52 |
25 | [25] | Domenico Giannone Department of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (USA) | 27.26 |
26 | [20] | Matteo Maggiori Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 27.28 |
27 | [33] | Charles I. Jones Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 30.26 |
28 | [36] | Maurice Obstfeld Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 30.37 |
29 | [15] | Stefano DellaVigna Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 32.62 |
30 | [28] | Enrico Moretti Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 33.08 |
31 | [60] | John B. Taylor Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 33.21 |
32 | [29] | Heidi L. Williams Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 33.53 |
33 | [35] | Jens Hainmueller Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 35.45 |
34 | [39] | Edward Andrew Miguel Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 36.09 |
35 | [42] | Karthik Muralidharan Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 36.25 |
36 | [38] | Arvind Krishnamurthy Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 36.91 |
37 | [45] | Jeffrey P. Clemens Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 37.05 |
38 | [34] | James Hamilton Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 38.76 |
39 | [6] | David E. Card Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 39.28 |
40 | [43] | Till Marco von Wachter Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 40.7 |
41 | [97] | Scott Rozelle Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 41.07 |
42 | [41] | Christopher Ross Walters Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 41.27 |
43 | [52] | Hilary Williamson Hoynes Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 45.4 |
44 | [46] | Eric T. Swanson Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 46.22 |
45 | [63] | David Hirshleifer Paul Merage School of Business, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 49.16 |
46 | [84] | Anya Savikhin Samek Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 50.4 |
47 | [56] | Isaac Sorkin Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 52.07 |
48 | [62] | Jarrad Harford Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (USA) | 53.53 |
49 | [40] | Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 53.72 |
50 | [64] | Glenn D. Rudebusch Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 53.8 |
51 | [58] | Oleg Itskhoki Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 55.44 |
52 | [57] | Emi Nakamura Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 55.92 |
53 | [59] | Rebecca Diamond Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 56.28 |
54 | [83] | Alan Auerbach Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 56.72 |
55 | [69] | Zheng Liu Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 56.83 |
56 | [67] | Andrew Granger Atkeson Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 57.35 |
57 | [50] | Jon Steinsson Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 59.53 |
58 | [72] | Sylvain Leduc Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 60.16 |
59 | [65] | Pete Klenow Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 60.26 |
60 | [51] | Marcel Fafchamps Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 61.48 |
61 | [99] | David Powell RAND, Santa Monica, California (USA) | 61.56 |
62 | [73] | Kyle L. Handley School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 62.79 |
63 | [70] | Charles David Sprenger Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) Rady School of Management, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 65.02 |
64 | [49] | Andres Rodriguez-Clare National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 65.46 |
65 | [71] | Adrien Auclert Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 65.49 |
66 | [53] | Francesco Trebbi Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 66.91 |
67 | [103] | Robert D Metcalfe Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 67.43 |
68 | [82] | Steven Tadelis Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 67.78 |
69 | [75] | Andrzej Skrzypacz Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 67.98 |
70 | [68] | Vincenzo Quadrini Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 68.67 |
71 | [77] | Luigi Pistaferri Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 68.79 |
72 | [78] | Nico Voigtlaender Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 69.6 |
73 | [80] | Jesse Rothstein Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 70.94 |
74 | [89] | Pascaline Dupas Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 75.36 |
75 | [85] | Christopher Tonetti Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 75.65 |
76 | [104] | Daniel John Wilson Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 76.35 |
77 | [87] | Muriel Niederle Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 78.18 |
78 | [101] | Regis Barnichon Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 78.88 |
79 | [93] | Dmitry Taubinsky Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 80.37 |
80 | [119] | Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes Department of Economics, University of California-Merced, Merced, California (USA) | 80.76 |
81 | [91] | James Samuel Cloyne Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 80.95 |
82 | [92] | Thibault Fally Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 82.1 |
83 | [107] | David S. Rapson Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 82.92 |
84 | [123] | David Zilberman Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 84.8 |
85 | [117] | Elisabeth Sadoulet Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 86.33 |
86 | [106] | Michael L. Anderson Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 86.72 |
87 | [81] | Gordon B. Dahl Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 90.04 |
88 | [94] | Ricardo Perez-Truglia Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 90.54 |
89 | [120] | Daniel Jacob Benjamin Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 90.71 |
90 | [98] | Luigi Bocola Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 91.36 |
91 | [115] | Alvin E. Roth Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 92.45 |
92 | [167] | Jungho Baek Department of Economics, School of Management, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska (USA) | 93.18 |
93 | [291] | Tim Leung | 93.3 |
94 | [55] | Joshua Graff Zivin School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 93.49 |
95 | [100] | Manisha Shah Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 94.13 |
96 | [124] | Marianna Kudlyak Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 95.5 |
97 | [22] | Robert Ernest Hall Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 96.11 |
98 | [54] | Kenneth R. Ahern Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 96.13 |
99 | [144] | Mark M Spiegel Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 96.63 |
100 | [110] | Jeremy R. Magruder Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 98.37 |
101 | [132] | Paul Gertler Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 98.71 |
102 | [206] | JunJie Wu Departments of Applied Economics, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (USA) | 98.9 |
103 | [134] | John Duffy Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 99.64 |
104 | [108] | Johannes Friedrich Wieland Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 101.15 |
105 | [158] | Jan K. Brueckner Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 101.51 |
106 | [113] | Romain Wacziarg Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 102.94 |
107 | [149] | Galina B Hale Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 103.35 |
108 | [114] | Darrell Duffie Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 103.64 |
109 | [135] | Matthew Shum Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA) | 104.79 |
110 | [112] | Bryan S. Graham Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 106.33 |
111 | [111] | Saki Bigio Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 108.62 |
112 | [125] | Benjamin Carter Hansen Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 109.14 |
113 | [32] | Matthew Aaron Gentzkow Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 111.11 |
114 | [139] | James Andreoni Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 113.52 |
115 | [182] | Stephen J Turnovsky Department of Economics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (USA) | 115.56 |
116 | [154] | Michael R. Carter Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 117.06 |
117 | [133] | Jules Hans van Binsbergen Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 118.79 |
118 | [143] | Jonathan Robinson Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 120.02 |
119 | [37] | Paola Giuliano Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 120.28 |
120 | [163] | Alexis Akira Toda Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 121.52 |
121 | [157] | Kevin J. Lansing Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 123.05 |
122 | [138] | John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 123.34 |
123 | [177] | Yin-Wong Cheung Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 123.49 |
124 | [156] | Lee Edward Ohanian Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 124.16 |
125 | [136] | Scott E. Carrell Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 124.28 |
126 | [142] | Frederico Finan Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 124.43 |
127 | [129] | Caroline Hoxby Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 127.33 |
128 | [48] | John Fernald Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) Economic and Political Sciences Area, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France | 127.61 |
129 | [141] | Mark Duggan Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 128.46 |
130 | [146] | Paul Niehaus Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 130.27 |
131 | [126] | Bronwyn Hughes Hall Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 130.29 |
132 | [160] | Fernanda Nechio Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 132.33 |
133 | [150] | Adriana Lleras-Muney Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 133.15 |
134 | [153] | Jens Henrik Eggert Christensen Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 133.44 |
135 | [86] | Andrew Kenan Rose Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 135.02 |
136 | [190] | Travis J. Lybbert Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 135.11 |
137 | [127] | Petra Persson Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 135.47 |
138 | [180] | Gregory Clark Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 136.14 |
139 | [147] | Anat Ruth Admati Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 136.22 |
140 | [140] | Kenneth Singleton Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 136.56 |
141 | [155] | Federico Echenique Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA) | 140.99 |
142 | [165] | Eric P. Bettinger Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 141.09 |
143 | [173] | Richard T. Carson Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 141.99 |
144 | [74] | Angus S. Deaton Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 142.6 |
145 | [185] | Hiro Ito Department of Economics, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon (USA) | 144.06 |
146 | [169] | Kyle Bagwell Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 144.06 |
147 | [122] | Olivier Deschenes Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 144.08 |
148 | [281] | Julian M. Alston Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 144.37 |
149 | [194] | Erik Olson Kimbrough Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California (USA) | 145.53 |
150 | [164] | Michael J. Callen Rady School of Management, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 146.78 |
151 | [205] | Rodney John Garratt Department of Economics, University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 148.36 |
152 | [298] | Kathya Tapia Schythe Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 148.67 |
153 | [162] | Andres Santos Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 148.88 |
154 | [175] | Matthew Freedman Department of Economics, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California (USA) | 149.7 |
155 | [195] | Saumitra Jha Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 149.76 |
156 | [159] | Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 149.99 |
157 | [178] | Katherine Eriksson Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 151.72 |
158 | [181] | Yixiao Sun Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, California (USA) | 152.25 |
159 | [346] | Felix Munoz-Garcia School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington (USA) | 152.94 |
160 | [105] | Erik Brynjolfsson National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 152.99 |
161 | [192] | Bruce A. Blonigen Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (USA) | 153.18 |
162 | [171] | Jonathan Levin Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 153.91 |
163 | [172] | Ernesto Dal Bo Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 154.02 |
164 | [214] | Nirvikar Singh Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC), Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 154.12 |
165 | [170] | Hyungsik Roger Moon Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 156.15 |
166 | [96] | Joseph S. Shapiro National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 156.61 |
167 | [179] | Robert G. Valletta Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (USA) | 161.23 |
168 | [189] | B. Douglas Bernheim Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 162.03 |
169 | [176] | Thomas R. Palfrey Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA) | 163.07 |
170 | [196] | Dan Kovenock Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University, Orange, California (USA) | 163.96 |
171 | [183] | David Alexandre Sraer Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) Finance Group, Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 166.27 |
172 | [202] | Hal Ronald Varian Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 167.12 |
173 | [193] | John Roberts Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 167.48 |
174 | [231] | Cheng Hsiao Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 167.56 |
175 | [188] | Ran Abramitzky Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 170.15 |
176 | [187] | Simone G. Schaner Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) | 172.24 |
177 | [79] | Eric A. Hanushek Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) | 173.16 |
178 | [191] | James M. Sallee Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA) | 174.27 |
179 | [151] | Martha J. Bailey Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California (USA) | 175.48 |
180 | [210] | Christopher M. Meissner Economics Department, University of California-Davis, Davis, California (USA) | 175.96 |
181 | [199] | Stephan Siegel Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (USA) | 176.19 |
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