Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Public Economics, as of May 2026

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For Public Economics, these are 1183 institutions and 1704 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	77	4.34
2	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	2	15	3.40
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3.00	9	1.32
4	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.23	9	1.09
5	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	4.73	29	4.46
6	University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	6.30	2	1.05
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	6.61	10	1.73
7	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	6.78	27	4.89
8	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	7.93	20	9.75
9	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	8.52	67	1.91
10	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	10.13	6	2.12
-	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics → Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Berkeley, California (United States)	10.81	1	0.52
11	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.44	8	1.67
12	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.14	9	0.74
13	Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	14.83	6	1.52
14	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	15.70	4	0.80
15	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	15.90	5	0.82
16	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	16.92	4	1.89
17	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	18.97	7	1.28
18	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	19.03	4	0.59
19	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	19.29	6	0.58
20	University of Michigan → Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	20.06	1	0.38
-	University of Michigan → Ross School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	20.06	1	0.38
21	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	21.16	10	1.16
22	CESifo, München, Germany	21.19	95	3.78
23	ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	21.29	22	4.35
24	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	22.07	9	1.19
25	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	22.61	6	2.20
26	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	24.40	12	1.10
27	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	24.73	2	0.85
28	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	25.34	16	3.52
29	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	27.04	5	0.73
30	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	27.49	17	5.26
31	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	28.33	3	1.06
32	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	29.17	13	3.16
33	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	30.81	18	2.53
34	Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden	32.60	16	5.12
35	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	32.68	101	5.35
36	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	33.68	4	0.56
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	35.67	8	0.90
37	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	37.25	3	0.83
38	Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	38.27	4	1.48
39	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	39.00	3	0.38
40	Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	39.21	7	0.99
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	39.67	5	0.41
41	Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	40.00	6	3.69
42	Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France	41.19	25	7.25
-	Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	41.57	2	1.11
43	Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	41.60	2	0.78
-	Oxford University → Saïd Business School → Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford, United Kingdom	42.28	6	0.83
44	University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	43.90	3	1.14
45	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	44.85	4	2.13
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	45.22	94	2.01
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	45.64	8	1.26
46	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	46.09	3	0.24
47	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	47.16	4	1.08
48	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	47.41	11	2.24
49	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	47.46	5	1.51
50	University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	48.67	2	1.71
51	Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	48.99	6	2.39
52	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	49.68	10	1.61
-	Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	51.04	2	0.78
53	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	51.97	8	0.90
54	Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	52.98	3	0.96
55	Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	53.36	4	1.52
56	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	53.88	3	0.83
57	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	53.90	1	0.69
58	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	53.95	5	0.90
59	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland	54.20	8	1.61
-	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	54.92	1	0.69
-	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	55.90	8	1.09
60	Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	56.15	3	0.63
61	Government of the United States → Department of the Treasury, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.40	4	2.64
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	57.70	7	2.13
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	58.60	1	0.48
62	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	60.33	14	7.29
-	Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) → Economics Department, Paris, France	61.06	16	4.17
63	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	61.69	3	0.63
64	Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden	63.01	17	4.96
65	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	63.04	5	0.31
-	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	63.37	1	0.05
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	63.54	1	0.24
66	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	63.74	2	0.37
67	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	66.01	14	3.81
68	Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	67.27	10	4.59
69	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	68.20	7	2.06
70	Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	69.80	1	0.30
-	Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	69.80	1	0.30
71	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	69.92	19	0.97
72	Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)	70.10	3	1.03
73	European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	71.59	6	1.58
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	71.92	5	2.40
74	Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain	72.69	14	3.93
75	Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	73.08	4	0.91
76	European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain	74.54	20	8.74
77	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	75.48	5	0.32
78	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	75.84	8	2.85
79	Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	76.01	4	0.79
80	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	77.98	10	3.50
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	78.26	8	1.37
81	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	79.85	3	0.73
82	International Institute for Management (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland	80.05	1	0.18
83	Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany	80.20	7	1.95
84	Stockholms Universitet → Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholm, Sweden	80.61	6	2.04
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	80.85	3	0.73
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	81.23	7	0.16
85	University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	81.49	6	1.21
-	Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen → Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala, Sweden	82.58	7	1.13
86	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	84.89	8	1.52
-	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	84.93	5	2.10
87	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany	85.39	5	1.14
88	Stony Brook University - SUNY → Economics Department, Stony Brook, New York (United States)	87.30	3	0.91
89	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	87.95	2	0.32
90	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	88.12	2	1.19
91	European Commission → Directorate-General Taxation and Custom Union, Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium	88.88	3	2.15
92	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	89.03	3	1.02
93	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	89.03	6	1.14
94	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	91.04	16	2.35
95	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	92.00	3	0.19
96	Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany	93.28	21	6.65
97	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	93.38	4	1.43
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain	93.63	2	0.16
98	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	95.38	4	0.36
99	UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia	95.91	4	0.80
100	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile	96.09	2	0.47
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	98.20	2	0.19
101	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	98.86	5	1.18
102	Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland	99.16	5	0.55
103	York University → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	99.23	1	0.88
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	99.43	6	2.09
-	Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	100.10	1	0.44
103	Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	100.10	1	0.44
105	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	103.79	3	0.31
106	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy	106.15	7	0.64
107	University of Florida → Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, Florida (United States)	107.41	1	0.39
108	University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	107.84	2	0.98
-	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	108.22	5	1.37
108	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	108.22	5	1.37
110	Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)	110.61	1	0.77
111	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	110.80	2	0.20
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	111.30	9	0.48
112	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	112.95	2	0.50
-	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	113.87	1	0.17
-	UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia	114.62	2	0.24
113	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	115.21	10	4.40
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	116.08	2	1.11
114	California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)	116.89	1	0.13
115	Appalachian State University → Department of Economics, Boone, North Carolina (United States)	117.30	1	0.64
116	Freie Universität Berlin → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin, Germany	118.39	9	1.13
117	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	119.89	1	0.26
118	Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany	120.85	7	1.58

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Joel Slemrod University of Michigan → Ross School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	2.35
2	Emmanuel Saez University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	3.16
3	Martin S. Feldstein †	3.59
4	James Poterba Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.80
5	Alan Auerbach University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics → Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Berkeley, California (United States)	4.83
6	Alberto Alesina †	7.67
7	Peter A. Diamond Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	9.22
8	James R. Hines, Jr. University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	12.36
9	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	12.94
10	James Alm Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	13.92
11	Torsten Persson Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	14.08
12	Michael Keen International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	15.02
13	Whitney Newey Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	15.53
14	Wallace E. Oates †	16.12
15	Lawrence H. Summers	16.27
16	Stephen Coate National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	18.36
17	Robin Boadway Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	18.43
18	Raj Chetty Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.18
19	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	19.70
20	Roger H. Gordon University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	22.49
21	Friedrich Georg Schneider Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	23.94
22	John Douglas Wilson Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	24.40
23	Michael P. Devereux Oxford University → Saïd Business School → Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford, United Kingdom	24.79
24	Laurence Kotlikoff Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	24.99
25	John Creedy Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	25.47
26	Joseph Stiglitz	27.13
27	Guy Laroque University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	27.36
28	Gabriel Zucman Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	27.97
29	Stefanie Stantcheva Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	28.06
30	Robert Glenn Hubbard Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	28.98
31	Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	29.41
32	David Wildasin University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	29.61
33	Rebecca M. Blank †	30.02
34	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	32.60
35	Thomas Sargent	32.75
36	Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell) University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	33.56
37	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	34.72
38	Assar Lindbeck †	35.02
39	Ben Lockwood University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	35.99
40	Clemens Fuest ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	36.80
41	Wojciech Kopczuk Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	38.59
42	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	42.68
43	Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	42.70
44	Jeffrey B. Liebman Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	42.84
45	A.L.Bovenberg Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	43.68
46	Richard M. Bird †	43.95
47	Caroline Hoxby Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	44.12
48	William Glenn Gale Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	47.36
49	Daniel Kaufmann Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	47.96
50	Jack M. Mintz University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	48.25
51	Don Fullerton National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	49.04
52	Jose Scheinkman Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	51.74
53	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	51.85
54	Pranab K. Bardhan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	52.49
55	Andrew Samwick Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	52.71
56	Andreas Peichl ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	53.64
57	Firouz Gahvari University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	53.80
58	Richard J. Cebula University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	54.40
59	Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	54.59
60	Aart Kraay World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	54.63
61	David Joulfaian Government of the United States → Department of the Treasury, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	55.10
62	Pierre Pestieau Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	56.43
63	Norman Gemmell Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	56.88
64	Bruno S. Frey Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	57.33
65	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	57.90
66	Owen Zidar Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	59.94
67	Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	62.41
68	Peter H. Egger Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland	62.72
69	Andrew Abel University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	62.79
70	Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	63.23
71	Helmuth Cremer Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	64.41
72	Charles Manski Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States) Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	66.17
73	Steven Mark Fazzari Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	68.59
74	Dhammika Dharmapala	68.63
75	Bruce D. Meyer	69.70
76	Dennis Epple Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	70.45
77	David E. Card	70.86
78	George R. Zodrow Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)	73.08
79	Richard Baldwin International Institute for Management (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland	73.73
80	Assaf Razin	74.41
81	Sören Blomquist (Soren Blomquist) Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen → Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala, Sweden	76.21
82	Ruud A. de Mooij International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	77.75
83	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato (Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato) Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	78.22
84	David Wise Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	80.14
85	Olivier Blanchard Paris School of Economics, Paris, France Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	81.10
86	Jacques H. Dreze †	81.13
87	Camille Landais London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	82.54
88	Thiess Büttner (Thiess Buettner) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany	83.02
89	Sam Bucovetsky York University → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	83.52
90	Xavier Sala-i-Martin Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	83.64
91	Casey Mulligan University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	84.67
92	Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	85.40
93	W Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	86.15
94	Mark Huggett Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	86.45
95	John List University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	86.57
96	Gilbert Metcalf Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	86.72
97	B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	87.78
98	David Neumark University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	89.05
99	Andreas Haufler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	90.25
100	Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	90.87
101	Louis Kaplow National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	92.71
102	David R. Agrawal University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	93.98
103	Alexander Daniel Klemm International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	94.29
104	Harald Uhlig University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	96.17
105	Horst Siebert †	96.23
106	Michael McKee Appalachian State University → Department of Economics, Boone, North Carolina (United States)	100.33
107	Kevin Allen Hassett Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	101.41
108	Gustavo Jaime Ventura Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	101.87
109	Dayanand Manoli Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	104.22
110	Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, Germany	105.08
111	Alain Trannoy Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	106.26
112	Florian Scheuer Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	107.43
113	Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	108.16
114	Enrico Moretti University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	109.56
115	Bronwyn H Hall University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	110.17
116	Danny Yagan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	111.50
117	Jean Hindriks Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	111.80
118	Richard Anthony Kneller University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	113.14
119	Michael Smart University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada CESifo, München, Germany	115.04
120	W. Adam Looney Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	116.64
121	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	117.03
122	Etienne Lehmann Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas → Département de Sciences Économiques et de Gestion → Centre de Recherche en Économie et Droit (CRED), Paris, France	117.29
123	Gerhard Glomm Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)	117.67
124	Bob Chirinko University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States) CESifo, München, Germany	117.74
125	Gaetan J.a. Nicodeme (Gaetan Nicodeme) European Commission → Directorate-General Taxation and Custom Union, Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium	120.06
126	Pierre Boyer Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	120.17
127	Richard Evans Romano University of Florida → Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, Florida (United States)	121.25
128	Varadarajan Chari University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	121.96
129	Mikhail Golosov University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	122.34
130	Kai A. Konrad Max-Planck-Gesellschaft → Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, München, Germany	123.20
131	Aleh Tsyvinski	123.47
132	Juergen von Hagen	125.15
133	Guttorm Schjelderup Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	125.17
134	Juan Carlos Conesa Stony Brook University - SUNY → Economics Department, Stony Brook, New York (United States)	125.24
135	Daniel Wilson Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)	125.61
136	Jess Benhabib New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	125.62
137	Mark Duggan Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	126.95
138	Anwar Shah World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	127.58
139	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	128.05
140	Kory Kroft University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	128.57
141	Axel Dreher Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	129.20
142	Antonio Afonso Universidade de Lisboa → Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) → Research in Economics and Mathematics (REM) → Unidade de Estudos sobre Complexidade e Economia (UECE), Lisboa, Portugal	129.50
143	Matthew C Weinzierl Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	129.63
144	Bev Dahlby University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	129.91
145	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	130.78
146	Iván Werning (Ivan Werning) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	132.26
147	Nora Claudia Lustig Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States) Colegio de México → Centro de Estudios Económicos, México, Mexico	133.32
148	Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	133.61
149	David Laibson Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	133.78
150	Urs Fischbacher Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany	136.28
151	Hilary Williamson Hoynes University of California-Berkeley → Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, California (United States) University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	136.42
152	Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)	136.54
153	Claus Thustrup Kreiner	138.33
154	Luc Laeven European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	138.45
155	Salvador Barrios European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain	138.81
156	Brian Erard	138.95
157	Rosanne Altshuler Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	139.50
158	Benjamin B Lockwood University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	140.13
159	Per Krusell Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	140.27
160	Ian Parry International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	140.37
161	Roel Maria Wilhelmus Jozef Beetsma Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands	142.39
162	Ray Rees †	142.72
163	Austan Goolsbee National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States) University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	143.74
164	Roland Benabou	143.92
165	Carlos Vegh Johns Hopkins University → School of Advanced International Studies → International Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	144.39
166	Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	146.26
167	Jeffrey Robert Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	148.08
168	Richard Arnott †	148.87
169	Jordi Galí (Jordi Gali) Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain	149.03
170	David M. Cutler	149.77

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