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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Computational Economics, as of July 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.1420.32
2Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)2.5910.49
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)2.9830.76
4Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy3.50122.66
5Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia4.91169.44
6Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)5.2140.61
7University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)7.0341.23
8Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)7.8810.18
9National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)10.04110.17
10Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà", Ancona, Italy10.9551.94
11Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)11.2520.37
12University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada11.8430.31
13University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom13.0461.93
14Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom14.5630.46
15International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)15.40102.22
-Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Management, Ancona, Italy15.7410.50
16University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)16.9920.35
17Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)17.0830.71
18Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland17.4752.21
19European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain19.19289.83
20Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)19.4520.93
21Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)20.1741.39
22Iowa State University → Department of Economics, Ames, Iowa (United States)20.4220.43
23Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands23.0620.72
-Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands23.0620.72
-Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics → Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)23.6541.32
24Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy24.2972.53
-University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)25.5610.43
24University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)25.5610.43
26University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada25.7121.13
27UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia26.0420.08
28Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)26.2620.06
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)27.3120.06
28Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)27.3120.06
30Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Oldenburg, Germany27.4310.31
-UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia27.7810.07
31Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg28.45182.16
32Santa Clara University → Department of Economics, Santa Clara, California (United States)31.3010.62
33Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany33.9330.72
34London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom34.6250.59
35University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.0410.13
36Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)36.0220.58
-Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom36.4010.08
37Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)37.6310.01
38University of Essex → Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester, United Kingdom39.5550.70
39Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI), Nice, France40.8940.88
-Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI) → Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion (GREDEG), Nice, France40.8940.88
40Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland40.9031.00
41Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark40.9141.27
42Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy41.4440.79
43World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)42.8651.53
44Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France43.2740.90
45Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Istituto di Economia, Pisa, Italy43.5410.24
46University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)43.9320.65
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg44.75140.91
47Paris School of Economics, Paris, France45.3060.44
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)46.5620.81
48University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom47.3210.14
49Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)48.1910.08
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)48.1910.08
50Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)49.2610.08
51University of Wisconsin-Madison → Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)49.2610.19
52Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France50.0261.51
53Vlerick Business School, Gent, Belgium50.4110.80
54Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland51.6531.26
55Bank of England, London, United Kingdom53.5694.83
-Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark55.1930.83
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France57.5910.23
55Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France57.5910.23
57Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom58.1720.28
58Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Montréal, Canada58.4230.92
-Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada58.4230.92
59University of Strathclyde → Strathclyde International Public Policy Institute (SIPPI), Glasgow, United Kingdom59.2810.47
-Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Ancona, Italy60.0531.43
60Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands62.9020.13
-Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Amsterdam, Netherlands62.9020.13
-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Milano, Italy63.8220.34
61Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France63.8650.31
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France63.8650.31
62Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland64.2820.15
63King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom65.4631.33
64Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)66.0220.10
65Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain66.4141.55
66University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)67.5310.06
-Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) → Environment Directorate, Paris, France70.6631.07
-Singapore Management University → School of Economics, Singapore, Singapore71.8120.23
66Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore71.8120.23
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain71.8820.30
68Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg → Volkswirtschaftslehre, Bamberg, Germany72.8820.50
69University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)73.2810.21
70Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)74.5010.45
71Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO), Montréal, Canada75.3320.57
72Università degli Studi di Genova → Centro Interdisciplinario in Economia e Finanza (CINEF), Genova, Italy75.5010.57

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Kenneth L. Judd
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
1.51
2Whitney Newey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.42
3Sendhil Mullainathan
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.32
4Joseph Stiglitz5.80
5Peter Howitt
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
7.33
6Victor Chernozhukov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
8.34
7Giovanni Dosi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy
8.39
8Christian Hansen
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
9.50
9Susan Athey
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
9.92
10Andrea Roventini
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy
11.76
11Melissa Dell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
13.86
12Mauro Gallegati
Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Management, Ancona, Italy
14.05
13Jack P.c. Kleijnen
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
15.57
14Guido Imbens
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
15.72
15Dacheng Xiu
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
17.83
16Peter Bishop Dixon
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
18.01
17Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
19.63
18Leigh Tesfatsion
Iowa State University → Department of Economics, Ames, Iowa (United States)
19.70
19Peter C. B. Phillips21.41
20Jianqing Fan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
22.95
21James R. Markusen
University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)
23.90
22John Whalley
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
24.39
23Manuel S. Santos
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
25.69
24Christoph Böhringer (Christoph Boehringer)
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Oldenburg, Germany
26.11
25Juan F Rubio-Ramirez
Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
26.72
26Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron)
Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland
27.35
27Mario Vanhoucke
Vlerick Business School, Gent, Belgium
27.42
28Michael P Keane
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia
28.64
29Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
30.89
30Serguei Maliar
Santa Clara University → Department of Economics, Santa Clara, California (United States)
31.45
31Erik Brynjolfsson31.74
32Sherman Robinson
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
33.76
33Mauro Napoletano
Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI) → Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion (GREDEG), Nice, France
33.77
34Benjamin Moll
London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom
37.75
35Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
37.88
36David F. Hendry
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
37.98
37David Andrew Kendrick38.55
38Anton Korinek
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
40.68
39João M.c. Santos Silva (Joao M.c. Santos Silva)
University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom
40.83
40Robert M. Stern41.74
41Thomas Warren Hertel
Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics → Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
43.52
42Laurence Kotlikoff
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
43.54
43Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
45.32
44Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
46.60
45Mike Tsionas46.88
46Jonathan Mark Horridge
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
48.67
47Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
48.76
48Maureen Therese Rimmer
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
49.10
49Carl Chiarella50.62
50Giorgio Fagiolo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Istituto di Economia, Pisa, Italy
50.73
51Joseph Francois
Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland
51.12
52Cars Hommes
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Amsterdam, Netherlands
51.89
53Lilia Maliar
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
52.10
54Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
Universidad de Oviedo → Facultad de Economía y Empresa → Departamento de Economía Aplicada, Oviedo, Spain
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
52.77
55Matteo G. Richiardi
University of Essex → Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester, United Kingdom
56.34
56Mark Schaffer
Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
56.50
57Gary Stanley Anderson57.34
58Tarek Alexander Hassan
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
57.77
59Andrew Feltenstein
Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
59.69
60George Kapetanios
King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom
60.64
61Richard S.j. Tol
University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom
62.16
62Andrea Prat
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
62.20
63John Gilbert
Utah State University → Jon M. Huntsman School of Business → Department of Economics and Finance, Logan, Utah (United States)
62.31
64Thomas F. Rutherford
University of Wisconsin-Madison → Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
63.26
65J. Doyne Farmer
Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
63.92
66Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Wolfgang Karl Haerdle)
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Berlin, Germany
64.30
67Luc Savard
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO), Montréal, Canada
64.78
68Michael Lechner
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
66.54
69Domenico Delli Gatti
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Milano, Italy
70.93
70Marco Raberto
Università degli Studi di Genova → Centro Interdisciplinario in Economia e Finanza (CINEF), Genova, Italy
71.14
71Neil Shephard
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
71.35
72Ajay K. Agrawal
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
71.92
73Frank Westerhoff (Frank H Westerhoff)
Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg → Volkswirtschaftslehre, Bamberg, Germany
73.24
74Greg Warren Kaplan
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
73.75
75Nicholas Rivers
Université d'Ottawa → École Supérieure d'Affaires Publiques et Internationales / Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Ottawa, Canada
74.30
76Alberto Russo
Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Ancona, Italy
74.37
77Oliver Hinz
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
76.38
78Marcelo Luis Veracierto
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
79.07
79Frank Schorfheide
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
79.35
80Luca Riccetti
Università degli Studi di Macerata → Facoltà di Economia e Diritto, Macerata, Italy
82.80
81Karen Turner
University of Strathclyde → Strathclyde International Public Policy Institute (SIPPI), Glasgow, United Kingdom
82.92
82Jurgen A. Doornik
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
83.89
83Martin Huber
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
84.63
84Leonardo Gambacorta
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
86.14
85Knut Einar Rosendahl
Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway
87.29
86J. Edward Taylor
University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)
87.58
87Ke Tang
Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China
87.98
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