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Top Institutions
| Rank |
Institution |
Score |
Authors |
Author Shares |
| 1 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1.20 | 3 | 0.52 |
| 2 | Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 1.79 | 4 | 0.53 |
| 3 | Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 2.97 | 14 | 2.18 |
| 4 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.18 | 17 | 0.77 |
| 5 | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden | 4.57 | 9 | 3.31 |
| 6 | University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 6.10 | 3 | 0.24 |
| 7 | University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 7.64 | 1 | 0.26 |
| 8 | Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom | 7.84 | 2 | 0.27 |
| 9 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 8.05 | 2 | 0.18 |
| 10 | London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom | 10.19 | 5 | 0.59 |
| - | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden | 10.51 | 7 | 2.09 |
| 11 | Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 10.75 | 1 | 0.38 |
| - | Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 10.75 | 1 | 0.38 |
| 12 | Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 11.89 | 6 | 0.64 |
| - | London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom | 12.26 | 3 | 0.13 |
| 13 | Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy | 12.85 | 2 | 0.46 |
| 14 | University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States) | 12.88 | 2 | 0.48 |
| - | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 14.34 | 2 | 0.14 |
| 15 | University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) | 15.06 | 1 | 0.10 |
| 16 | University of Missouri → Department of Economics, Columbia, Missouri (United States) | 16.07 | 1 | 0.10 |
| - | Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Environment for Development, Göteborg, Sweden | 16.60 | 3 | 1.03 |
| 17 | Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 16.79 | 2 | 0.09 |
| 18 | Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 18.28 | 1 | 0.08 |
| - | Oxford University → Department of Economics → Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Oxford, United Kingdom | 18.95 | 1 | 0.10 |
| 19 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States) | 19.33 | 1 | 0.11 |
| 20 | Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 19.58 | 1 | 0.16 |
| - | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States) | 20.46 | 1 | 0.11 |
| 21 | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland | 21.77 | 1 | 0.25 |
| 22 | World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States) | 21.92 | 5 | 0.63 |
| 23 | University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States) | 22.69 | 1 | 0.19 |
| - | Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland | 22.79 | 1 | 0.25 |
| 24 | Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States) | 23.05 | 1 | 0.13 |
| 25 | Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia | 23.22 | 3 | 0.35 |
Top Authors
| Rank |
Author |
Score |
| 1 | Martin L. Weitzman † | 1.12 |
| 2 | Richard Schmalensee | 3.57 |
| 3 | Robert S. Pindyck Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 4.31 |
| 4 | Matthew Kahn University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States) | 5.23 |
| 5 | Robert Norman Stavins Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 5.37 |
| 6 | Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France | 5.47 |
| 7 | William D. Nordhaus Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States) | 7.41 |
| 8 | Michael Greenstone University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) | 8.10 |
| 9 | Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University → Department of Economics → Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich Economies (OxCarre), Oxford, United Kingdom | 8.79 |
| 10 | William A. Brock University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States) University of Missouri → Department of Economics, Columbia, Missouri (United States) | 9.07 |
| 11 | Michael Hanemann Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States) | 9.57 |
| 12 | Anastasios Xepapadeas Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy | 11.54 |
| 13 | Jeffrey Alexander Frankel Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 12.46 |
| 14 | Joseph S. Shapiro | 12.93 |
| 15 | W. Reed Walker | 14.38 |
| 16 | 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) | 14.77 |
| 17 | Fredrik Carlsson Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Institutionen för Nationalekonomi med Statistik, Göteborg, Sweden | 15.74 |
| 18 | Gilbert Metcalf Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States) | 16.44 |
| 19 | Thomas Sterner Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan → Environment for Development, Göteborg, Sweden | 17.67 |
| 20 | Anthony J. Venables Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom | 18.35 |
| 21 | Esther Duflo Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) | 19.72 |
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