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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Risk Management, as of March 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.50331.17
2Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.8040.45
3New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)2.5361.04
4Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)4.5820.57
5Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)4.8662.51
6European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany4.983110.98
-New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)7.6240.31
7Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business, Columbus, Ohio (United States)7.7020.23
8University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.7120.26
9Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)10.4950.52
10University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)10.6940.42
11Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland10.7591.85
12Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)10.9530.62
13London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom12.2261.01
14Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)12.2340.71
-Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)12.9410.16
15Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)13.60112.82
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)14.9240.44
16Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)15.7050.95
17Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France17.3761.44
-New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Volatility Institute, New York City, New York (United States)17.4910.13
18Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)18.0340.19
19London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom18.7881.90
20Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France21.1461.92
21Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark21.2830.31
22Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom21.40380.99
-Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark22.6820.28
23Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland23.36131.34
24Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia23.7771.72
25World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)25.6571.85
26University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)27.6930.53
27Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)27.9940.28
28Banco de España, Madrid, Spain29.49124.03
29Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)29.8420.26
-Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)29.8420.26
30Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands29.9740.87
31University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)30.6340.57
32Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)30.67103.33
-University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)34.1130.34
33University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada34.2110.29
34Bank of England, London, United Kingdom34.692210.00
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Banking and Finance, Caulfield, Australia36.0910.36
35International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)36.9361.65
36Lebanese American University → Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon37.3810.52
37Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)37.8030.76
38Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain38.6320.57
39Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland38.7672.56
-Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)38.8130.76
40HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada39.9830.79
41Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy40.3171.82
42University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom40.4830.26
43University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Kenan Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)42.8520.41
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)43.6530.28
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)44.5320.39
43University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)44.5320.39
45Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark45.5482.00
46City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)45.6310.50
47Chinese Academy of Sciences → Institutes of Science and Development, Beijing, China48.2710.44
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland50.3841.30
48Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)50.5810.62
49Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)50.8230.17
50Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada50.8310.46
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom51.6920.74
51Banque de France, Paris, France51.77123.94
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)52.2661.23
52Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands52.4631.43
53HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France52.4720.65
54Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland53.7810.26
55Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)54.1410.15
56Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy54.72188.11
57Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy55.1740.12
58New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)55.6010.11
-London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom56.2420.15
59Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands57.7271.11
60Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)59.3051.11
61University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa59.4010.14
-University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa60.6010.14
62KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium62.0762.05
63European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy62.7510.08
64University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)64.0710.04
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France64.2221.59
64Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France64.2221.59
66Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Roma, Italy68.1351.07
67Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands68.5552.68
68Tsinghua University → PBC School of Finance, Beijing, China69.0510.35
69Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium69.1742.08
70Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland71.4850.72
71Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany71.7060.84
72Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)72.1420.05
73Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy73.4330.27
74University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)73.5820.14
75University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)73.7631.00
76Univerzita Karlova v Praze → Institut ekonomických studií, Praha, Czech Republic74.15154.41

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Robert F. Engle1.30
2John Y. Campbell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
3.05
3Tim Bollerslev
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
3.85
4Robert J. Barro
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
5.98
5Stephen J. Brown
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
6.40
6Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
7.20
7René M. Stulz (Rene M. Stulz)
Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
7.39
8Lasse Heje Pedersen
Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark
10.02
9Viral V. Acharya
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom
13.77
10Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa
16.75
11William Goetzmann
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
17.38
12Hyun Song Shin
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
18.61
13Campbell Harvey
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
18.82
14Elie I. Bouri
Lebanese American University → Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon
19.26
15Torben G. Andersen
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
19.29
16Christian S. Gourieroux
University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada
20.80
17Robert J. Shiller21.61
18Georges Dionne
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada
22.78
19Peter P. Carr22.95
20Brian M. Lucey
Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland
23.34
21Darrell Duffie
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
23.37
22Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
25.00
23Geert Bekaert
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
25.15
24Ross Levine
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
25.36
25Anat Admati
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
26.92
26Qiang Ji
Chinese Academy of Sciences → Institutes of Science and Development, Beijing, China
27.88
27Stefano Giglio
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
28.59
28Michael McAleer28.94
29Peter F. Christoffersen29.31
30Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
33.46
31John Cummins
Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
33.53
32Til Schuermann34.51
33Asli Demirguc-Kunt
World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
34.75
34Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
34.79
35Anil Kashyap
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
37.07
36Andrew Patton
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
39.40
37Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
40.68
38Steven Ongena
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Banking und Finance (Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen), Zürich, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
41.33
39W Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)
41.99
40Liuren Wu
City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
42.63
41Jon Danielsson
London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom
43.22
42René Garcia (Rene Garcia)
Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
44.27
43Jean Charles Rochet
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
45.22
44Christian Lundblad
University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Kenan Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
47.47
45Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Wolfgang Karl Haerdle)
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Berlin, Germany
47.68
46K. Geert Rouwenhorst
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
49.00
47Francis A. Longstaff
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)
49.21
48Suleyman Basak
London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom
49.82
49Alain Monfort
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
50.59
50Kevin Stiroh
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)
50.93
51Markus K. Brunnermeier
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
51.69
52Tobias Adrian
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
53.49
53Andrew Ang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
54.80
54Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
56.84
55Andre Lucas
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
58.04
56Iftekhar Hasan
Fordham University → Gabelli School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
Suomen Pankki, Helsinki, Finland
59.04
57Lubos Pastor
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
59.94
58Scott R. Baker
University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business → Department of Finance, Investment and Banking, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
62.31
59Simon Gilchrist
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
62.38
60Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
62.99
61Takatoshi Ito63.08
62Josef Zechner
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria
63.43
63Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
63.73
64Peter Hansen
University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
65.23
65Massimo Guidolin
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
65.31
66Oliver Bruce Linton
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
67.86
67Javier Suárez (Javier Suarez)
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
68.01
68Stefan Nagel
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
68.98
69Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
69.76
70Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
70.88
71Thorsten Beck
European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy
74.01
72Michel Dacorogna75.50
73Gary Gorton
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
75.92
74Martin Eling
Universität St. Gallen → School of Finance → Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
78.70
75Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
78.85
76Siem Jan Koopman
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
79.14
77Patrick Bolton
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
79.16
78Jianqing Fan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
80.06
79Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
81.48
80Amit Goyal
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
81.82
81Helene Rey
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
83.80
82Michael Gordy
Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
83.81
83John Cotter84.19
84Duc Khuong Nguyen
École de Management Léonard de Vinci, Courbevoie, France
85.63
85Söhnke M. Bartram (Sohnke M. Bartram)
University of Warwick → Warwick Business School → Finance Group, Coventry, United Kingdom
86.04
86Sweder van Wijnbergen (Sweder Wijnbergen)
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
86.68
87Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
87.77
88Christian Pierdzioch
Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg → Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg, Germany
88.87
89Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
University of Portsmouth → Portsmouth Business School → Economics and Finance Group, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
89.09
90Kevin Dowd
Cato Institute, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
90.16
91Hao Zhou
Tsinghua University → PBC School of Finance, Beijing, China
92.27
92Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
92.97
93Neil Shephard
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
93.23
94Eric Ghysels
University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
95.84
95Michael Rockinger
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
96.10
96Afees Adebare Salisu
Centre for Econometrics and Applied Research, Ibadan, Nigeria
98.02
97Riza Demirer
Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)
98.56
98Edward J. Kane98.74
99Marco Pagano
Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy
99.08
100Christian Gollier
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
99.16
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