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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Cultural Economics, as of October 2025

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Cultural Economics

For Cultural Economics, these are 229 authors affiliated with 1352 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.515080.6
2African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Yaoundé, Cameroun

2.6360.93
3Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

4.1640.37
4Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

6.461861.12
5Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.9720.69
6London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

8.233531.77
7Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

8.77660.29
8Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom

8.91131.52
9Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

9830.65
10Department of Economics, University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

10.33390.78
11Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

14.07340.58
12Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

16.252240.84
13Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

16.36660.34
---Department of Economics, Business School, Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia

16.85301.41
14Business School, Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia

16.85451.41
15Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

18.061723.09
16Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

19.761811.53
---Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

20.32480.54
17Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

22.14410.7
18Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

22.22100.47
---Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Scuola di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Firenze, Italy

22.37662.39
19Scuola di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Firenze, Italy

22.37902.39
20Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

23.181881.92
---Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

25.2710.65
21Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

27.11620.2
22Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

27.31570.86
23Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

27.641360.64
24Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

27.99270.31
25Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)

28.92340.88
26Institut for Økonomi, Syddansk Universitet

Odense, Denmark

29.31361.72
27Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

31.22610.17
28Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

31.571210.44
29Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

32.4660.6
30Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

32.54511.14
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

33.521021.15
31Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania

Catania, Italy

33.79272.9
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

33.95550.38
32School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

37.51420.82
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

40.1650.62
---CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

40.26940.71
33New Economic School (NES)

Moscow, Russia

41.06410.73
---Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG), Institut for Økonomi, Syddansk Universitet

Odense, Denmark

43.38170.78
34Collège du Management de la Technologie, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Lausanne, Switzerland

44.49171.02
35Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Bologna, Italy

45.161251.81
36Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

45.391321.18
37Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino

Torino, Italy

46.9491.61
38Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

48.45560.71
---Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

49.57500.33
39Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

52.17510.88
40Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

52.27470.55
41Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

57.1432.22
42Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

57.181831.35
43Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Beijing, China

57.6520.5
44Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

58.22341.07
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

59.53550.24
45Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

59.97600.1
---Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

60.36210.31
46Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

61.293860.18
---Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

62.35182.18
47Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

63190.14
48HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

63.27410.49
49Economics Department, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

63.41541
---Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

66.151110.44
50Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

66.559600.44
51Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

66.92220.14
52Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF)

Roma, Italy

66.95320.14
53Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

67.18350.49
54Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

67.26530.08
55Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Orange, California (USA)

67.38481.29
---Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

68.59320.19
56Tinbergen Instituut

Amsterdam, Netherlands

69.61280.15
57Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research

Wellington, New Zealand

70.17220.13
58Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

71.56630.12
---Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

72.41300.5
59Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

75.72240.52
60Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Warszawa, Poland

76.891734.35
61Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

77.01490.18
62IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra

Barcelona, Spain

77.64180.42
---Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

78.58460.88
63Economics Department, University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida (USA)

81.78140.5
64Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California (USA)

82.52170.1
65Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

82.98880.16
66School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

84.991340.79
---Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

87.5380.69
67Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

88.131620.22
68Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

89.17300.24
69World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

96.756342.9
70Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e Finanziarie "Giovanni Anania", Università degli Studi della Calabria

Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

98.35161.2
---Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

99.28701.92
71Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

100.93570.15
72Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

101.19560.19
73Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

102.82480.29
---Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

105.77340.13
74Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

108.09740.35
75Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

108.13601.14
76Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST)

Palaiseau, France

109.881100.78
77School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen

Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

110.35671.16
---Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

111.0130.06
78Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

113.01870.11
79Dipartimento di Politiche Pubbliche e Scelte Collettive (POLIS), Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"

Alessandria, Italy

113.66171.37
80Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

113.67871.26
81Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

114.16260.05
82Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

116.041990.94
83Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia

Murcia, Spain

118.35391.38
84School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

119.841041.05
85Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas (USA)

121.47320.16
86Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

125.48700.16
---Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

128.66170.04
87Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

129.17700.45
88European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS)

Liège, Belgium

129.7520.05
89CESifo

München, Germany

130.083360.4
90Department of Economics, Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina (USA)

131.64260.62
91Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

La Jolla, California (USA)

133.47520.21
92College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia (USA)

136.62310.65
---Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia (USA)

136.62260.65
---Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

136.88170.06
93Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan

137.88230.09
94École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France

138.741270.74
---Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

141.36481.11
95Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

141.36551.11
96Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa (USA)

141.38480.38
97Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Venezia, Italy

141.54588.58
98School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana (USA)

142.15140.03
---Department of Management, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

144.36120.12
---Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

144.71820.4
99Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo

Oslo, Norway

145.7430.32
---Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia

Murcia, Spain

147.18111.04
100Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali "Marco Fanno", Università degli Studi di Padova

Padova, Italy

147.74580.92
101Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

München, Germany

149.19120.6
102ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V.

München, Germany

149.472000.16
103Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

151.97780.12
---Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

151.97720.12
104Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel

Basel, Switzerland

153.46650.29
---Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

155.52260.07
105Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS)

Cagliari, Italy

155.56700.96
106Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Milano, Italy

158.82610.71
107Department of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)

New York City, New York (USA)

159.93160.55
108Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

160.4440.05
---Istituto di Economia Politica "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

160.4160.05
---Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

160.7120.15
109Bayes Business School, City St George's

London, United Kingdom

161.43460.21
---Faculty of Finance, Bayes Business School, City St George's

London, United Kingdom

161.43180.21
110Department of Economics, University of Calgary

Calgary, Canada

161.68430.29
---Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

161.8150.05
111Centre d'Économie de l'Université Paris-Nord (CEPN), Université Paris-13

Paris, France

163.07791.16
112Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

163.83260.31
---Finance Discipline Group, Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

163.87370.86
113Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

163.87910.86
114Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri (USA)

164.42370.33
115Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA)

Nancy/Strasbourg, France

166.181080.4
---Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

166.25280.48
116School of Management, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

167.09410.07
117Economics Department, Berry College

Mount Berry, Georgia (USA)

167.4481.5
---Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

168.5140.02
118Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

168.56430.05
119School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London

London, United Kingdom

168.8700.25
---Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

168.87431.16
120Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

168.87491.16
121Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

170.09420.08
122H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

170.68230.62
123School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

Pullman, Washington (USA)

170.74240.64
---Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma

Roma, Italy

171.11630.46
124Facoltà di Economia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma

Roma, Italy

171.111590.46
125Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands

171.351220.17
126Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

München, Germany

171.641050.55
127Copenhagen Business School

København, Denmark

173.46812.16
128Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

173.61630.06
129Business School, Imperial College

London, United Kingdom

175.06500.07
---Department of Economics, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

177.29330.28
130Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

177.29420.28
---Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e Strategie d'Impresa (DEMS), Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Milano, Italy

177.98510.63
131Faculté de droit, d'économie et de finance, Université du Luxembourg

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

178.84701.17
---Real Estate Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

178.85100.08
---Finance Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

179.5170.02
132Facoltà di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Roma, Italy

180.491180.31
133Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

187.181760.12
134Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Ferrara, Italy

187.43250.52
135Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

187.931520.24

The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Cultural Economics

For Cultural Economics, these are 229 authors affiliated with 1352 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankAuthorScore
1Joel Waldfogel

Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

2.35
2Matthew Aaron Gentzkow

Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

3.73
3Bruno S. Frey

Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

4.8
4David Walter Galenson

Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Department of Economics, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

6.29
5Luigi Zingales

Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (USA)

6.72
6Kathryn Graddy

Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)

8.27
7Jesse M. Shapiro

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

8.4
8Stefano DellaVigna

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

8.85
9Karol Jan Borowiecki

Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG), Institut for Økonomi, Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark

10.73
10Luc Renneboog

CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands

11.73
11Peter Nijkamp

Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands

12.21
12Guido Tabellini

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

13.03
13Alberto Francesco Alesina †

13.11
14Victor A. Ginsburgh

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

13.18
15Simon Anderson

Department of Economics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

13.85
16Eliana La Ferrara

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom

14.8
17Maria Petrova

Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain

16.06
18Thierry A. Verdier

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

17.43
19Federico Etro

Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Scuola di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

18.45
20Ricard Gil

IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

20.07
21Paola Sapienza

Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

21.21
22Oded Galor

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

22.03

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