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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Cultural Economics, as of January 2026

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Cultural Economics

For Cultural Economics, these are 219 authors affiliated with 1370 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.315170.6
2African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Yaoundé, Cameroun

360.93
3Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

4.45630.35
4Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

5.691841.17
5Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

6.43720.69
6Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

8.25650.28
7London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

8.453571.77
8Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

8.65840.65
9Department of Economics, University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

9.38390.78
10Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham

Birmingham, United Kingdom

10.98131.52
11Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

12.69350.58
12Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

15660.34
13Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

16.32220.85
14Scuola di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Firenze, Italy

19.03902.55
---Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

19.32480.54
15Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

19.51831.53
---Department of Economics, Business School, Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia

20.88301.41
16Business School, Macquarie University

Sydney, Australia

20.88461.41
17Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)

Basel/Zürich, Switzerland

21.22100.47
18Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

21.38420.7
19Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

23.711891.92
---Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Cambridge, United Kingdom

23.910.65
---Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Scuola di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Firenze, Italy

24.57662.4
20Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

24.86570.86
21Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

25.35620.2
22Department of Economics, International Business School, Brandeis University

Waltham, Massachusetts (USA)

27.71340.9
23Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

28.971200.48
24Saïd Business School, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

29.95260.31
25Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

30.38610.17
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

30.98540.42
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

33.251021.14
26Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

33.47501.13
27Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

35.8660.6
28Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

36.351340.59
29Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università degli Studi di Catania

Catania, Italy

37.03272.9
30Tinbergen Instituut

Amsterdam, Netherlands

40.61290.21
31New Economic School (NES)

Moscow, Russia

40.81410.73
32School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

40.971420.71
---CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

40.97930.71
33Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

42.851321.19
34Collège du Management de la Technologie, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Lausanne, Switzerland

43.64171.02
35Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Bologna, Italy

44.571251.81
36Institut for Økonomi, Syddansk Universitet

Odense, Denmark

45.34361.72
37Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Università degli Studi di Torino

Torino, Italy

45.52501.56
38Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet

Stockholm, Sweden

47.29350.56
39Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

47.811712.93
40Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

48.75570.71
41Universidad del CEMA

Buenos Aires, Argentina

49.12470.54
42Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

49.37510.88
43Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

501841.29
---Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

53.44210.31
44Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Beijing, China

54.72520.5
45Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

55.5580.1
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

56.96550.24
46Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

58.11351.07
47Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

58.153970.18
48Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

58.39190.14
49Economics Department, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

58.49541.05
---Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG), Institut for Økonomi, Syddansk Universitet

Odense, Denmark

59.64170.78
50HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

59.77410.49
51Department of Economics, University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

62.69220.14
52Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

63.21442.21
---Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

64.011120.44
53Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

64.22530.08
54Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

64.679570.44
55Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski

Warszawa, Poland

65.491754.52
56Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF)

Roma, Italy

66.83370.14
57Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research

Wellington, New Zealand

67.15220.12
---Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Oviedo

Oviedo, Spain

67.35182.17
---Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

69.02330.18
58Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

72.5240.52
59Argyros College of Business and Economics, Chapman University

Orange, California (USA)

74.17491.29
---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

74.76490.28
---Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH)

Bergen, Norway

75.83460.88
60Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California (USA)

75.89170.1
61School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

78.611350.86
62Economics Department, University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida (USA)

79.66150.5
---Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

79.96300.49
63IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra

Barcelona, Spain

81.22180.4
64Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

81.32890.15
65Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

86.41630.22
66Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

88.02480.24
67Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e Finanziarie "Giovanni Anania", Università degli Studi della Calabria

Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

88.41201.27
68Economics Department, George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia (USA)

88.48480.52
69Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

89.52630.06
70Economics Department, Williams College

Williamstown, Massachusetts (USA)

91.77310.24
71Department of Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

97.23470.29
72World Bank Group

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

99.866382.9
73Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

100600.15
74Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

100.18560.19
75Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

101.35911.26
---Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

101.58380.69
76Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

101.97750.36
---Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

105.12330.13
77Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

105.991640.76
---Center for Global Management, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

107.5930.06
78School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

107.611041.11
79Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

108.5601.14
80Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

109.27870.11
81School of Economics and Political Science, Universität St. Gallen

Sankt Gallen, Switzerland

110.53691.19
---Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

111.94691.92
82Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

113.86260.04
83Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST)

Palaiseau, France

113.971110.78
---Department of Economics, Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, KU Leuven

Leuven, Belgium

114.22740.73
---Dipartimento di Analisi delle Politiche e Management Pubblico, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

115.35120.21
84Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia

Murcia, Spain

119.49391.38
85Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

122.752020.94
86Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas (USA)

123.04360.17
87Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

125.62710.15
88Dipartimento di Politiche Pubbliche e Scelte Collettive (POLIS), Università del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro"

Alessandria, Italy

128.39161.37
---Strategy and Business Economics Division, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

Vancouver, Canada

128.87170.04
89Economics Department, Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire (USA)

129.41430.08
90School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Bloomington, Indiana (USA)

130150.03
91École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France

130.611260.87
92Dipartimento di Management, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Venezia, Italy

131.74588.72
93Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

La Jolla, California (USA)

132.4510.21
---Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

133.11170.06
---Department of Management, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

137.77120.12
94Department of Economics, Appalachian State University

Boone, North Carolina (USA)

139.66260.62
95Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo

Oslo, Norway

139.9430.34
96Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan

140.02230.09
97Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

141.64700.45
98Bayes Business School, City St George's

London, United Kingdom

143.49460.24
---Faculty of Finance, Bayes Business School, City St George's

London, United Kingdom

143.49180.24
---Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Universidad de Murcia

Murcia, Spain

145.37111.04
99CESifo

München, Germany

146.193420.4
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

146.73640.46
100Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa (USA)

148.01480.38
---Finance and Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

150.56260.07
101Business School, Imperial College

London, United Kingdom

150.95500.08
---Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

151.34481.11
102Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

151.34551.11
103Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

151.73780.13
---Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

151.73720.13
104Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Columbia, Missouri (USA)

152.22360.33
---Department of Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University

Melbourne, Australia

153.04830.4
105College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia (USA)

154.04310.64
---Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University

Morgantown, West Virginia (USA)

154.04260.64
106European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS)

Liège, Belgium

155.1220.05
107Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

155.27450.05
---Istituto di Economia Politica "Ettore Bocconi", Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

155.7550.05
108Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali "Marco Fanno", Università degli Studi di Padova

Padova, Italy

155.78580.92
---Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

156.6450.05
109Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel

Basel, Switzerland

157.06660.29
110Fakultät für Betriebswirtschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

München, Germany

157.89120.6
111Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands

158.31220.18
112Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS)

Cagliari, Italy

161.55691.01
113School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London

London, United Kingdom

162.28720.25
114Department of Economics, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY)

New York City, New York (USA)

162.66160.55
---Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Los Angeles, California (USA)

163.07140.02
115Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

164.97910.86
---Finance Discipline Group, Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

166.34370.86
---Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE), School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

166.49280.51
116Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

166.78410.08
117Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Milano, Italy

167.07610.71
118Department of Economics, University of Calgary

Calgary, Canada

167.09430.29
119School of Management, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

167.71420.07
120ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V.

München, Germany

168.962020.37
121Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

171.09260.31
122H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

172.93230.62
---Real Estate Department, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

173.98100.08
123Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

174.72620.06
---Department of Economics, Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

174.84431.16
124Lerner College of Business and Economics, University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware (USA)

174.84491.16
---Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma

Roma, Italy

175.83640.5
125Facoltà di Economia, "Sapienza" Università di Roma

Roma, Italy

175.831600.5
126Economics Department, Berry College

Mount Berry, Georgia (USA)

176.8181.5
127Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA)

Nancy/Strasbourg, France

177.941090.39
128School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

Pullman, Washington (USA)

178.88240.64
---Finance Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

178.9270.02
129Unité de Recherche Analyse des Crises et Transitions (ACT), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Villetaneuse, France

179.29801.16
130School of Economics, University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

179.37590.56
131Inter-American Development Bank

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

185.041780.12
132Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

185.71920.29
133Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal

Montréal, Canada

186.66310.12
---Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e Strategie d'Impresa (DEMS), Scuola di Economia e Statistica, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Milano, Italy

187.83510.63
134Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

190.36470.36
---Department of Economics, Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

190.85330.28
135Waikato Management School, University of Waikato

Hamilton, New Zealand

190.85440.28
136Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università degli Studi di Ferrara

Ferrara, Italy

192.88250.52
137Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong

Pokfulam, Hong Kong

193.51320.03

The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Cultural Economics

For Cultural Economics, these are 219 authors affiliated with 1370 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankAuthorScore
1Joel Waldfogel

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

2.24
2Matthew Aaron Gentzkow

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

3.36
3Bruno S. Frey

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

4.31
4Peter Nijkamp

Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands

5.96
5David Walter Galenson

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

5.99
6Luigi Zingales

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

6.19
7Kathryn Graddy

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

7.48
8Jesse M. Shapiro

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

7.78
9Stefano DellaVigna

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

9.25
10Luc Renneboog

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

11.02
11Guido Tabellini

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

12.26
12Victor A. Ginsburgh †

12.32
13Karol Jan Borowiecki

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

12.51
14Alberto Francesco Alesina †

12.57
15Simon Anderson

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

13.39
16Eliana La Ferrara

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

14.36
17Maria Petrova

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

16.2
18Thierry A. Verdier

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

16.62
19Federico Etro

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

16.68
20Ricard Gil

IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra, Barcelona, Spain

19.73
21Paola Sapienza

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

20.74

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