Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Financial Markets, as of May 2026

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There are 9321 institutions with 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
For Financial Markets, these are 640 institutions and 742 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.00	57	3.32
2	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	2	6	1.25
3	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	3.40	3	0.99
4	Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	4.11	8	1.69
5	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	5.04	5	1.26
6	Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	5.50	4	0.82
7	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	6.51	6	1.40
8	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	8.61	5	0.89
-	Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	8.81	2	0.52
9	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	9.92	7	1.05
10	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	10.04	12	3.92
11	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	11.24	5	0.74
12	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	12.38	2	0.31
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	13.08	5	0.99
13	Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.31	4	0.84
14	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	13.83	48	1.37
15	Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)	14.65	12	2.49
16	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	15.10	8	0.86
-	Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	15.18	4	0.77
17	Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	15.61	6	0.74
-	Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	15.90	3	0.65
18	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	18.05	3	0.22
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	18.16	3	0.70
19	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	18.62	4	0.78
20	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)	19.06	5	1.24
21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.63	5	0.72
22	Shanghai Jiao Tong University → Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai, China	21.52	3	1.98
23	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	22.13	7	1.17
24	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	23.05	5	1.14
25	Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	25.11	3	0.60
-	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	26.46	2	0.35
25	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	26.46	2	0.35
27	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	26.95	4	0.21
28	European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	27.37	12	3.56
-	Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	28.94	3	0.59
-	Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)	29.88	9	1.41
29	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	30.10	4	0.80
30	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	30.13	6	0.50
31	Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland	30.96	10	1.37
32	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	31.01	5	2.10
33	University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)	31.54	2	0.46
-	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)	32.81	3	0.57
-	University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	33.50	1	0.27
34	University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business, Austin, Texas (United States)	34.06	2	0.41
35	Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland	34.18	14	1.27
36	University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	34.88	3	0.25
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	35.02	5	0.63
-	University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business → Department of Finance, Austin, Texas (United States)	35.07	2	0.41
37	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	36.23	4	0.83
-	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	36.78	3	0.78
38	University of Maryland → Robert H. Smith School of Business, College Park, Maryland (United States)	36.81	2	1.20
39	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	36.83	7	1.40
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom	36.93	4	0.93
-	University of Maryland → Robert H. Smith School of Business → Finance Department, College Park, Maryland (United States)	37.82	2	1.20
40	Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland	38.55	1	0.42
41	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	39.74	5	0.29
-	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France	40.07	3	0.59
-	Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	41.17	3	0.26
42	Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark	41.62	2	0.39
-	New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)	42.13	4	0.28
-	Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark	42.66	1	0.23
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	43.09	1	0.17
43	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark	43.61	7	0.93
44	Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	44.26	2	0.10
45	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	45.13	4	0.44
46	City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	45.38	1	0.71
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain	45.70	4	0.66
47	George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	46.18	2	0.55
-	Boston College → Wallace E. Carroll School of Management → Finance Department, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	47.20	1	0.67
47	Boston College → Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	47.20	1	0.67
-	University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	47.47	1	0.16
49	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	47.71	2	0.11
50	University of Virginia → Darden School of Business, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	49.84	2	0.80
51	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	51.20	1	0.09
-	University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Berkeley, California (United States)	51.75	2	0.32
52	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	54.23	2	0.16
53	European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	55.38	1	0.12
54	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy	55.54	5	0.22
55	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	56.92	3	1.18
56	University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	58.42	3	0.31
-	Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark	58.71	5	0.64
57	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa	58.91	3	0.27
58	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	59.06	2	0.15
59	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	59.36	1	0.61
60	University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	60.02	2	0.34
61	Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	60.03	1	0.17
-	University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	61.57	3	0.27
-	Lancaster University → Management School → Department of Economics, Lancaster, United Kingdom	62.35	2	0.71
61	Lancaster University → Management School, Lancaster, United Kingdom	62.35	2	0.71
63	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	62.59	2	0.13
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	62.90	1	0.16
64	University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Kenan Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)	64.28	2	0.35

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	John Y. Campbell Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.58
2	Tim Bollerslev Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	2.67
3	René M. Stulz (Rene M. Stulz) Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)	5.14
4	Campbell Harvey Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	6.06
5	Robert J. Shiller	7.02
6	Francis Diebold University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	7.17
7	Kenneth A. Froot Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	10.14
8	Jeremy Stein National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	10.34
9	Brian M. Lucey Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland	11.02
10	Roberto S. Mariano †	12.33
11	Ross Levine Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	12.82
12	Robert F. Stambaugh University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	14.20
13	Geert Bekaert Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	14.73
14	Ravi Jagannathan Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	16.62
15	David Hirshleifer University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	16.95
16	Lubos Pastor University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	17.14
17	Mark Grinblatt University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	18.81
18	Stefan Nagel University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	19.27
19	Lasse Heje Pedersen Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark	19.36
20	Torben G. Andersen National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.98
21	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.67
22	George Tauchen Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	21.68
23	Andrew W. Lo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	23.22
24	Rangan Gupta University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa	23.49
25	Carmen Reinhart Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	24.87
26	Liuren Wu City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	25.42
27	Franklin Allen Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom	25.66
28	Owen A. Lamont Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	26.45
29	Yacine Ait-Sahalia Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	26.67
30	William Goetzmann Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	26.92
31	Jun Pan Shanghai Jiao Tong University → Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), Shanghai, China	27.86
32	Kenneth S Rogoff Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	29.65
33	Mohammad Hashem Pesaran University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	31.63
34	Russell Wermers University of Maryland → Robert H. Smith School of Business → Finance Department, College Park, Maryland (United States)	31.80
35	Francis A. Longstaff University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)	32.35
36	Sebastian Edwards University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Center for Global Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)	32.80
37	Asli Demirguc-Kunt World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	34.81
38	Peter F. Christoffersen †	35.76
39	David A. Peel Lancaster University → Management School → Department of Economics, Lancaster, United Kingdom	37.18
40	Jonathan Andrew Batten RMIT University → School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, Melbourne, Australia	37.40
41	Andrew 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)	38.38
42	Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana Universidad de Navarra → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Pamplona, Spain Universidad de Navarra → Navarra Center for International Development, Pamplona, Spain	39.02
43	Martin Lettau University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business → Finance Group, Berkeley, California (United States)	42.70
44	Sheridan Titman University of Texas-Austin → McCombs School of Business → Department of Finance, Austin, Texas (United States)	43.53
45	Allen N. Berger Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	43.65
46	Darrell Duffie Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	44.63
47	Jeffrey Wurgler New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	45.29
48	Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	47.71
49	Peter Temin †	51.09
50	Graciela Laura Kaminsky George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	51.64
51	Paul Alan Gompers Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	51.83
52	Malcolm Baker Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	52.60
53	Sydney C. Ludvigson New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	53.41
54	Dirk Baur Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg, Germany	53.52
55	Andrew Metrick Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	53.98
56	Guglielmo Maria Caporale Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom	55.77
57	James Poterba Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	57.07
58	Justin Wolfers	57.74
59	Martin Eichenbaum Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	58.21
60	David Backus †	58.70
61	Arvind Krishnamurthy Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)	59.17
62	Luc Laeven European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	59.61
63	Thorsten Beck European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy	60.30
64	Eric Zitzewitz Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	61.48
65	Josef Zechner WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria	62.73
66	Gary Gorton Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	63.18
67	Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	63.31
68	Suleyman Basak London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	64.83
69	Roberto Rigobon Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	65.76
70	Stijn Claessens Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	66.64
71	Mark P. Taylor Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	66.85
72	Peter P. Carr †	68.09
73	Christian Pierdzioch Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg → Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg, Germany	68.15
74	Kenneth Neil Kuttner Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)	68.89

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