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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Utility Models and Prospect Theory, as of June 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.0071.56
2Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)2.3751.33
3Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy2.86144.94
4McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada4.2731.13
5Paris School of Economics, Paris, France4.84195.04
6National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)5.88240.74
7University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)6.7030.25
8Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland9.15102.68
9Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands9.9221.41
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy10.0471.52
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland10.6382.30
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands11.3910.83
10University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)11.6020.48
11Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.2852.26
12Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France13.10112.14
13Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)14.2030.93
14University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)14.5550.47
15California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)15.3430.64
16Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany15.5351.80
17Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom15.7962.21
18University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)16.4540.62
19Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.6740.38
20Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)17.8662.70
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)17.9240.37
21Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)18.7120.55
22New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)19.9250.83
23University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom22.3120.84
24Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom23.5452.44
25Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France24.8142.14
-University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom26.8931.68
25University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom26.8931.68
27Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → Experimental Economics Center, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)28.2651.11
28University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)28.3520.39
29Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)29.0810.53
30Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)29.2662.65
31National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore30.8342.85
32Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Alicante, Spain31.0431.26
-Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain31.0431.26
-Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)31.3210.28
33University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)32.9710.23
34HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France33.0751.69
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Scienze delle Decisioni, Milano, Italy33.6742.18
35Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France34.1651.98
36Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)34.2141.14
37Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland34.27144.62
38London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom38.1391.32
39University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)38.1810.32
40Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States)38.4380.55
-Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)38.4380.55
41University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom39.4850.80
42University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)41.4510.17
43Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium41.9741.03
44Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)43.6930.15
45Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark44.5051.78
46Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)44.6010.29
47Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg45.67410.79
48Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)46.4310.05
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg46.76410.79
-KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium47.7061.07
48KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium47.7061.07
50Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France47.71133.25
51Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands49.0032.58
52Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel49.9120.27
53University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)50.5220.18
54University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom50.5631.64
55Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), Paris, France51.4020.75
56Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France51.5693.42
57Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France52.5782.67
-Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)53.4710.33
57Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)53.4710.33
59Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia55.4730.97
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia55.4730.97
60Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)55.9831.98
61Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)57.4710.07
62Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)57.9020.78
63Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France60.72103.53
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom62.1140.43
64California Institute of Technology → Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Pasadena, California (United States)62.2810.11
65Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom62.3062.81
66Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain62.3941.42
67University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada62.4120.66
-Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France63.2920.48
67Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France63.2920.48
69Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy63.7110.08
-California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences → Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science, Pasadena, California (United States)64.3610.11
70Università degli Studi di Torino → Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy65.2751.00
71Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands65.9992.11
-Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium66.0730.90
72Danmarks Nationalbank, København, Denmark66.8910.42
73Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia67.8210.04
-Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark68.5610.41
74University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)69.8220.23
75Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands70.0150.75

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Larry Epstein
McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada
2.23
2Robert J. Barro
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.40
3Peter P. Wakker
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
4.88
4Colin Farrell Camerer9.35
5Edi Karni
Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
10.39
6Massimo Marinacci
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Scienze delle Decisioni, Milano, Italy
10.70
7Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
10.94
8James Andreoni
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.18
9Herve Moulin
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
11.81
10Michael Woodford
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
11.92
11Robert Sugden
University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom
12.20
12Olivier Blanchard
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
12.25
13Glenn W. Harrison
Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
13.67
14Lars Peter Hansen
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
13.97
15John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
14.29
16Charles Manski
Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)
14.42
17Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
14.48
18Jean-Michel Grandmont
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
16.22
19Uzi Segal
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
17.39
20Itzhak Gilboa
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France
18.05
21Tim Bollerslev
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
19.47
22Graciela Chichilnisky
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
19.63
23Han Bleichrodt
Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain
22.84
24Daniel L. McFadden
University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
25.84
25Ariel Rubinstein26.86
26Miles Spencer Kimball
University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)
27.18
27David Huffman
Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
27.51
28Sujoy Mukerji
Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom
27.72
29Tomasz Strzalecki
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
27.73
30Louis Eeckhoudt
Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France
27.79
31Wing-Keung Wong
Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan
28.97
32Aldo Rustichini
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
29.14
33David Schmeidler30.00
34Joseph Stiglitz31.49
35Vernon L. Smith
Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)
33.14
36Werner B.f. Brouwer
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands
34.11
37Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
34.28
38Bernard Salanié (Bernard Salanie)
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
35.06
39Armin Falk
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
36.29
40Marcos Escobar Anel37.45
41Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
39.17
42Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
39.45
43B. Douglas Bernheim
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
39.45
44John Hey
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
42.22
45John K.-h. Quah
National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore
42.74
46Christian Gollier
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
43.02
47Simon Grant
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia
43.22
48Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
43.29
49Jean-Marc Tallon
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
43.75
50Stefan Nagel
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
43.93
51Geert Bekaert
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
44.74
52Federico Echenique
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
46.34
53Charles David Sprenger
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
52.34
54Emmanuel Saez
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
52.49
55Arthur Lewbel
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
52.64
56Roland Benabou53.51
57Yoram Halevy
University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada
53.97
58Marc Fleurbaey
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
55.64
59Fabio Maccheroni
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
56.42
60Raman Uppal
Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France
56.72
61Ravi Bansal
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
57.27
62Heng-fu Zou
Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China
57.28
63Alain Jacques Chateauneuf
Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la Gestion (IPAG), Paris, France
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
58.50
64Steffen Andersen
Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark
59.47
65Sydney C. Ludvigson
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
60.94
66Jianjun Miao
Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China
62.94
67André Jean-Louis de Palma (Andre de Palma)
Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France
63.56
68Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
63.77
69David Laibson
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
64.06
70Irina Georgescu
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti → Facultatea de Cibernetica, Statistica şi Informatica Economica, Bucureşti, Romania
64.93
71Ulrich Schmidt65.11
72Geoffrey Heal
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
65.46
73Pietro Ortoleva
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
65.55
74Soren Johansen
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
65.59
75Elisabet Rutstrom
Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
66.11
76Massimo Guidolin
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
66.14
77Peter Hammond
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
66.29
78Andrew Postlewaite
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
66.45
79Todd Sarver
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
67.67
80Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
68.35
81Pierre Chiappori
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
69.84
82Harald Uhlig
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
69.99
83Daniel Friedman
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)
70.59
84Mark Dean
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
71.87
85Francoise Forges
Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) → Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques de la Décision (CEREMADE), Paris, France
Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) → Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa), Paris, France
72.47
86Andrew Caplin
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
73.46
87Robin Cubitt74.03
88Ferdinand Vieider
Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Vakgroep Economie, Gent, Belgium
74.04
89Jörg Stoye (Joerg Stoye)
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
77.59
90Dirk Krueger
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
78.61
91Paolo Ghirardato
Università degli Studi di Torino → Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy
Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche, Torino, Italy
78.88
92Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
79.52
93Martin Browning
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
81.65
94Yves Sprumont
Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
84.85
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