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Top Institutions and Economists in Pennsylvania (United States), as of March 2026

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Top institutions, all authors, all publication years

Rank W.Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1[1]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.388976.95
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.505349.82
3[3]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)3.193533.90
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.713125.95
4[4]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)3.854844.54
5[5]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)5.005548.49
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.65109.97
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.803028.12
6[6]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.673331.90
7[7]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.242421.77
8[8]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)7.372320.20
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.3574.43
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.532827.40
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)9.151714.94
9[9]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)9.51119.65
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.291614.56
11[10]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.5954.05
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.6211
12[13]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.722321.20
13[12]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)12.9598.90
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.1154.95
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Management Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.8544
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Pension Research Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)13.9521
14[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)14.441515
15[15]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)14.5398.49
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Penn Institute for Economic Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)14.8410.75
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.03107.71
16[16]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)15.151716.25
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.9843.50
-[-]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration → Laboratory for Economics Management and Auctions (LEMA), State College, Pennsylvania (United States)16.5611
17[17]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.831313
18[18]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)17.341313
-[-]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics → Economics Department, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.4787.49
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)20.00119.50
19[19]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)20.0410.99
20[20]University of Pennsylvania → Population Studies Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)20.8063.92
21[21]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)21.1485.55
22[23]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)21.35109.70
23[22]Bucknell University → Economics Department, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (United States)21.4788

Top institutions, 10 best authors for each, publications last 10 years

Rank W.Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1[1]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.218910
2[2]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)1.735310
3[3]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)34810
4[4]University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)4.105510
-[-]Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.213010
5[5]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)4.913310
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)5.033110
6[6]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)6.253510
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.392810
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.41109.97
7[7]Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)6.452310
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → School of Economics → Center for Global Policy Analysis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)7.6954.95
8[8]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)8.512410
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.48107.71
-[-]Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.181710
9[9]Carnegie Mellon University → Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)10.5354.05
10[11]Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.711610
11[10]University of Pennsylvania → Perelman School of Medicine → Division of Health Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.7310.99
12[12]Temple University → Economics Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)12.162310
13[14]Pennsylvania State University → Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)13.771510
14[13]Villanova University → School of Business, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)13.871310
15[15]Swarthmore College → Department of Economics, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania (United States)16.211310
16[16]Lafayette College → Department of Economics, Easton, Pennsylvania (United States)17.451710
17[17]Pennsylvania State University → Smeal College of Business Administration, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)17.51119.65
18[21]University of Pennsylvania → Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.4531.43
19[19]Gettysburg College → Economics Department, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (United States)18.65109.70
-[-]Drexel University → LeBow College of Business → Department of Finance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.7543.50
-[-]University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics → Center for Analytic Research and Economics in the Social Sciences (CARESS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.8011
20[22]University of Pennsylvania → Kleinman Center for Energy Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)18.8611
-[-]Villanova University → School of Business → Economics Department, Villanova, Pennsylvania (United States)18.96119.50
21[18]University of Pittsburgh → Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)19.2885.55
22[23]Lehigh University → College of Business and Economics, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (United States)19.8998.49
23[20]University of Pittsburgh → Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)20.1198.90

Top authors, all publications years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[1]Francis Diebold1.52
2[2]Allen N. Berger4.00
3[3]Robert F. Stambaugh4.80
4[4]Jeremy Greenwood5.21
5[6]Jere Richard Behrman5.56
6[8]Petra Elisabeth Todd6.25
7[5]Enrique G. Mendoza6.73
8[9]George Loewenstein7.16
9[12]Andrew Abel8.86
10[10]Gilles Duranton8.94
11[11]Frank Schorfheide10.54
12[17]Andrew Postlewaite11.44
13[16]Russell Cooper11.93
14[14]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde12.96
15[13]Dirk Krueger14.55
16[19]Harold Linh Cole17.78
17[18]Joseph Gyourko19.40
18[22]Alex Edmans19.90
19[21]Dennis Epple20.26
20[20]George J. Mailath20.48
21[23]Hanming Fang21.91
22[24]Sidney Graham Winter Jr.22.31
23[7]Olivia Mitchell22.88
24[41]Nicholas S Souleles23.69
25[26]Lise Vesterlund24.46
26[25]Mark J. Roberts25.10
27[15]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)25.21
28[38]Yoto V. Yotov30.24
29[30]Neil Wallace30.51
30[31]A. Ronald Gallant30.99
31[34]Wilfred John Ethier31.09
32[29]Jonah B. Gelbach31.28
33[36]Satyajit Chatterjee34.86
34[42]Michael R. Roberts38.63
35[39]Gary E. Bolton39.79
36[37]Kenneth Burdett39.88
37[48]Ram Mudambi40.26
38[40]Kala Krishna41.91
39[46]Jean-Francois Richard43.64
40[43]Jessica A. Wachter45.27
41[47]Iourii Manovskii45.96
42[45]Benjamin J. Keys46.72
43[55]John Cummins47.80
44[49]Lowell Taylor48.56
45[50]Ioana Elena Marinescu50.13
46[51]Vijay Krishna50.48
47[56]Guillermo L. Ordonez51.23
48[52]Fernando V. Ferreira52.00
49[44]Martin Gaynor52.57
50[58]Donald B. Keim53.09
51[57]Lee G. Branstetter53.27
52[54]Charles H. Whiteman53.28
53[65]Gerald A. Carlino55.67
54[59]Steven A. Matthews57.17
55[60]Esther Gal-Or58.36
56[70]James Joseph McAndrews58.70
57[27]Stephen Ross Yeaple58.97
58[67]Michelle Lowry61.39
59[63]Fernando Parro61.54
60[77]Marc Flandreau62.28
61[74]Constantinos Syropoulos62.76
62[61]Shawkat Hammoudeh64.66
63[73]Herman J. Bierens64.90
64[66]Lorin Moultrie Hitt65.12
65[71]David Powell65.45
66[72]James Vickery66.40
67[33]Urban Joseph Jermann66.69
68[32]James R. Tybout66.82
69[68]Chris Telmer66.97
70[78]Witold Jerzy Henisz67.01
71[69]Randall Phillip Walsh67.91
72[75]Keisuke Hirano70.34
73[35]Karen Kay Lewis71.44
74[79]Susan M. Wachter72.11
75[76]Todd Sinai72.24
76[88]Leonard I. Nakamura73.06
77[84]Brent W. Ambrose73.42
78[80]Makoto Nakajima75.92
79[85]Karen B. Clay77.08
80[83]Brian K. Kovak78.15
81[87]Enghin Atalay81.29
82[81]João F. Gomes (Joao)82.07
83[97]Patricia M. Danzon83.21
84[89]Patrik Guggenberger83.56
85[96]Dean P. Foster84.31
86[92]Shigeru Fujita84.93
87[99]Julapa A. Jagtiani84.98
88[93]Kathleen Weiss Hanley86.14
89[100]Daniel Berkowitz86.23
90[95]Nicholas Z. Muller86.67
91[91]Amelie Constant94.36
92[101]Stephen Spear94.56
93[104]Jeffrey Lin96.51
94[110]Martin J. Conyon96.75
95[106]Steven Huddart97.35
96[112]Sudipta Basu98.55
97[103]Kent Smetters98.66
98[107]Andre Kurmann101.20
99[116]Johanna Catherine Maclean102.08
100[118]Bang Nam Jeon103.40
101[105]David N. DeJong103.61
102[102]Thomas H. McInish104.14
103[108]Joris Pinkse104.62
104[117]Stephan J. Goetz105.14
105[109]Alex Rees-Jones105.19
106[113]Thomas George Rawski107.74
107[111]Burton Hollifield108.36
108[53]Amir Yaron109.53
109[121]Jon P. Nelson111.33
110[114]Douglas Hanley111.45
111[98]Benjamin R. Lester111.69
112[128]Pornsit Jiraporn111.88
113[126]Cristina Bicchieri112.52
114[115]Burcu Eyigungor113.66
115[120]Pablo N. D'Erasmo114.24
116[124]Wenli Li114.50
117[122]Michael Schwert117.02
118[119]Christopher C. Geczy117.39
119[123]Anna Paulson118.44
120[130]Robert Hunt118.52
121[140]Christopher Kilby120.17
122[125]Michael D. Smith120.91
123[136]Daniel R. Sanches121.46
124[127]Marc Henry123.09
125[90]Shing-Yi Wang123.75
126[132]Marla Ripoll126.52
127[129]Daniele Coen-Pirani126.98
128[62]Nikolai Roussanov127.03
129[139]Canlin Li127.20
130[135]Shawn Thomas127.31
131[134]Pavel Gregory Savor127.77
132[153]Jeremy Glenn Weber130.55
133[131]Osea Giuntella131.77
134[143]Roc Armenter132.58
135[141]Alessandro Acquisti132.72
136[144]Jingzhi Huang132.93
137[163]Sanya Carley133.25
138[142]Susan L. Averett134.85
139[154]Keith Sill135.29
140[145]Krishna Ramaswamy135.37
141[151]Mitchell Berlin136.45
142[138]Robert Strauss (Robert Philip Strauss)137.11
143[167]James Samuel Shortle139.04
144[152]Fallaw Sowell139.71
145[146]Benjamin B Lockwood139.89
146[147]Bradley Setzler140.08
147[150]Daniel Rock140.12
148[159]David Stifel141.25
149[158]Karen Fisher-Vanden141.59
150[149]Arie Beresteanu142.61
151[180]Thomas C. Chiang (Thomas Chi-Nan Chiang)142.79
152[165]Chad D. Meyerhoefer142.79
153[156]Alex Imas143.24
154[161]Bryan Andrew Stuart143.72
155[148]Luca Rigotti146.00

Top authors, publications last 10 years

Rank W.Rank Author Score
1[2]Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde2.12
2[1]Yoto V. Yotov2.14
3[3]Dirk Krueger4.55
4[5]Robert F. Stambaugh5.58
5[4]Ioana Elena Marinescu5.79
6[6]David Powell6.53
7[7]Hanming Fang9.03
8[8]Daniel Rock9.78
9[10]Michael Schwert12.76
10[12]Alex Edmans14.31
11[11]Bradley Setzler16.64
12[13]Gilles Duranton17.49
13[27]Ram Mudambi17.76
14[14]Frank Schorfheide18.64
15[16]Alex Rees-Jones18.70
16[18]George Loewenstein19.25
17[17]Benjamin J. Keys19.71
18[25]Julapa A. Jagtiani19.86
19[20]Bryan Andrew Stuart21.12
20[21]Jessie Handbury21.64
21[23]Guillermo L. Ordonez22.31
22[19]Benjamin B Lockwood23.22
23[22]Osea Giuntella23.29
24[24]Diane Alexander23.71
25[44]Jere Richard Behrman24.49
26[39]Johanna Catherine Maclean25.29
27[33]Sanya Carley25.70
28[15]Jeremy Greenwood26.27
29[26]J. Aislinn Bohren26.35
30[41]Nicholas Z. Muller28.22
31[32]James Vickery28.47
32[37]Constantinos Syropoulos28.61
33[36]Petra Elisabeth Todd28.75
34[30]Lise Vesterlund30.02
35[35]Brian K. Kovak30.94
36[42]Michelle Lowry31.52
37[43]Francis Diebold31.94
38[40]Ben Sprung-Keyser31.95
39[47]Daniel R. Sanches32.98
40[9]Olivia Mitchell34.82
41[38]Andrew Garin35.48
42[46]Marc Henry36.23
43[49]Cristina Bicchieri36.67
44[45]Enrique G. Mendoza38.72
45[48]Enghin Atalay38.79
46[50]Joseph Gyourko40.66
47[53]Minchul Shin42.36
48[52]Alistair Wilson44.40
49[51]Harold Linh Cole46.27
50[54]Andre Kurmann46.34
51[55]Fernando Parro48.81
52[31]Shing-Yi Wang49.71
53[58]Simon Freyaldenhoven49.85
54[59]Francesco Agostinelli50.47
55[56]Satyajit Chatterjee50.80
56[61]Thorsten Drautzburg52.88
57[66]Akshaya Jha54.26
58[34]José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (Jose-Victor Rios-Rull)55.76
59[72]J. Daniel Kim57.85
60[75]Karen B. Clay59.55
61[64]Iourii Manovskii60.44
62[74]Lester Robert Lusher61.76
63[71]Makoto Nakajima62.26
64[67]Eduardo M. Azevedo62.33
65[70]Randall Phillip Walsh62.47
66[69]Joachim Hubmer62.75
67[28]Andreas Ferrara64.19
68[80]Mariaflavia Harari64.81
69[60]Benjamin R. Lester67.61
70[29]Eugen Dimant68.82
71[82]Christopher Severen69.99
72[68]Atul Gupta70.72
73[89]Daniel Aaron Brent70.86
74[78]Dennis Epple71.44
75[79]Pablo N. D'Erasmo71.60
76[81]Jeffrey Lin74.25
77[88]Shigeru Fujita76.29
78[86]Alex Imas76.54
79[92]Brent W. Ambrose76.92
80[84]Douglas Hanley78.10
81[87]Richard Van Weelden79.47
82[91]Kevin He79.66
83[90]Laura Liu81.97
84[85]Saurabh Bhargava82.75
85[76]Martin Gaynor86.12
86[96]Lee G. Branstetter87.56
87[95]Daniel Brady Jones88.33
88[113]Chad D. Meyerhoefer89.80
89[106]Jeremy Glenn Weber90.70
90[103]Syon Pandya Bhanot91.91
91[93]David Danz92.59
92[94]Jason Sockin93.85
93[120]Sondès Kahouli (Sondes Kahouli)95.08
94[100]Burcu Eyigungor97.01
95[98]Maisy Wong97.31
96[101]Rania Gihleb98.33
97[109]Andrew Postlewaite99.90
98[99]Fernando V. Ferreira100.03
99[112]Gaurav Kankanhalli100.24
100[102]Daniel G Garrett100.56
101[110]Edison G Yu102.34
102[105]Stephen A Karolyi102.65
103[134]Sutirtha Bagchi102.78
104[115]Gerald A. Carlino105.80
105[57]Urban Joseph Jermann107.00
106[104]Leena Rudanko108.47
107[111]Sean Myers110.80
108[118]Karam Kang111.18
109[62]Winston Wei Dou111.38
110[121]Vincent Glode113.08
111[116]Kala Krishna113.52
112[117]George J. Mailath114.70
113[125]Kyle Roy Myers114.99
114[141]Bang Nam Jeon115.04
115[122]Juan Camilo Castillo115.31
116[114]Mark J. Roberts116.16
117[127]Allison Shertzer116.47
118[132]John Sedunov, III116.70
119[124]Yuhta Ishii117.37
120[148]Pornsit Jiraporn117.49
121[128]Pedro Silos119.73
122[126]Lowell Taylor121.71
123[146]Beibei Li122.49
124[129]Susanna Berkouwer122.57
125[65]Nikolai Roussanov124.53
126[138]Jingzhi Huang124.89
127[133]Sergio Cristian Salgado Ibáñez, Sr. (Sergio Salgado I.)125.99
128[151]Tristan L. Potter127.01
129[149]Leonard I. Nakamura127.48
130[150]Gorkem Bostanci127.48
131[166]Susan M. Wachter128.23
132[136]Sébastien Bradley (Sebastien Bradley)128.57
133[142]Katherine L. Milkman128.86
134[130]Mark Stehr129.67
135[135]Gabriel Tourek129.86
136[144]Yiru Wang130.47
137[164]David Stifel130.54
138[140]Pavel Gregory Savor130.97
139[171]Stephan J. Goetz131.52
140[131]Marla Ripoll133.59
141[204]Matías Vernengo (Matias Vernengo)134.72
142[160]Martin J. Conyon136.06
143[155]Shawn Thomas136.56
144[73]Francesc Dilme137.37
145[156]Karen Fisher-Vanden137.96
146[143]Paolo Martellini138.88
147[145]Sophie Calder-Wang139.94
148[163]Mireia Gine143.83
149[170]Daniel Berkowitz144.18
150[147]Daniele Coen-Pirani144.85
151[158]Jeffrey C. Brinkman145.10
152[154]Andrew Shephard145.25
153[168]Amanda Bayer148.48
154[165]Russell Cooper148.50
155[153]Sung Jae Jun150.04
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