IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/top/old/2609/top.cmp.html

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

What this page is about

This page is part of a larger set of rankings for research items, serials, authors and institutions made available on this site. A FAQ is available.

  • Customize this ranking.
  • The scores of institutions in each field are determined by a weighted sum of all scores of authors affiliated with the respective institutions, where the authors have provided weights ("shares") if they have multiple affiliations. The weights are determined, for each author, by the proportion of all working papers announced in NEP that have also been announced in this NEP report.
  • To be classified, an author needs to have five or more working papers announced in the NEP report for this field. For authors whose first paper is less that 10 years old, having 25% of the papers in the NEP report is sufficient.
  • Only classified authors are considered for the institution scores.
  • A series of rankings by different criteria are aggregated. The average rank score is determined by taking a harmonic mean of the ranks in each criterion. For a list of criteria, see the general ranking page.
  • Authors who are deceased or whose email address with RePEc is invalid are not counted, the latter under the assumption that they have moved or have died
  • For institutions: Authors who are deceased or whose email address with RePEc is invalid are not counted, the latter under the assumption that they have moved or have died
  • There are 9374 institutions with 74391 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings
  • For Computational Economics, these are 733 institutions and 893 authors.

The data presented here are experimental. They are based on a sample of the research output in Economics and Finance. Only material catalogued in RePEc is considered. For any citation based criterion, only works that could be parsed by the CitEc project are considered. For any ranking of people, only those registered with the RePEc Author Service can be taken into account. And for rankings of institutions, only those listed in EDIRC and claimed as affiliation by the respective, registered authors can be measured. Thus, this list is by no means based on a complete sample. You can help making this more comprehensive by encouraging more publications to be listed (instructions) and more authors to register (form). For more details on the various rankings that are available as well for documentation, follow this link.

EntityFull rankingLast 10 years10 best authorsLast 10 years, 10 best authorsTop 5% authorsMore
AuthorsShort Details Short Details More
InstitutionsShort Details Short Details Short Details Short Details All yearsLast 10 More
RegionsShort Details Short Details More

Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)130.46
2Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)2.2510.49
3Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy2.95122.66
4Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)4.2140.61
5Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia5.381710.08
6University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)5.7920.65
7University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)6.2241.23
8Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)8.4210.18
9Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà", Ancona, Italy10.5151.94
10Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)10.5520.35
11University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada11.6630.30
12National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)12.09110.15
13University of Strathclyde → Economics Department, Glasgow, United Kingdom12.8661.93
14Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom14.5730.45
15International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)14.85112.47
-Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Management, Ancona, Italy15.7410.50
16Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)17.3430.70
17University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)17.6220.35
18Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland17.9652.20
19Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)18.1920.89
20European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain18.73289.80
21Iowa State University → Department of Economics, Ames, Iowa (United States)20.0620.43
22Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)20.1241.39
-Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands22.4020.72
22Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands22.4020.72
-Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics → Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)23.4041.32
24Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy23.5072.57
25University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada25.5821.13
-University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)25.9410.43
25University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)25.9410.43
27Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)26.4820.06
28UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia26.7020.08
29Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Oldenburg, Germany27.3910.31
30Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)27.5320.06
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)27.5320.06
-UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia28.6110.07
31Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg29.21182.17
32Santa Clara University → Department of Economics, Santa Clara, California (United States)31.7410.62
33Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France32.0660.34
34Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany34.9130.72
35London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom34.9250.54
36University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.6910.13
-Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom37.6410.08
37Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)37.9420.58
38Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)38.4110.01
39Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland39.1141.48
-Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI) → Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion (GREDEG), Nice, France42.3740.88
39Université Côte d'Azur → École Universitaire de Recherche d'Économie et de Management (ELMI), Nice, France42.3740.88
41Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy42.5240.81
42University of Essex → Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester, United Kingdom42.7340.69
43Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland43.1030.98
44Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark43.7541.27
45Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Istituto di Economia, Pisa, Italy45.0710.24
46World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)45.2151.53
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)45.4920.78
47Paris School of Economics, Paris, France45.7460.44
48Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)46.5020.10
49Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France46.5040.90
50Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain47.0241.62
51University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)47.5520.65
-University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand50.0110.02
51University of Auckland → Business School, Auckland, New Zealand50.0110.02
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg50.01140.92
53University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom50.5210.14
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain51.3120.37
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)51.9010.08
53Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)51.9010.08
55Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France52.0061.52
56Vlerick Business School, Gent, Belgium52.0810.80
57University of Wisconsin-Madison → Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)52.3510.19
58Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)52.9710.08
59Bank of England, London, United Kingdom55.3094.83
-Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Center for Research in Econometric Analysis of Time Series (CREATES), Aarhus, Denmark59.0030.83
60Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom61.2520.28
61University of Strathclyde → Strathclyde International Public Policy Institute (SIPPI), Glasgow, United Kingdom62.0810.47
-Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG) → Département des Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada62.1730.92
61Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) → École des Sciences de la Gestion (ESG), Montréal, Canada62.1730.92
-Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Ancona, Italy62.2031.43
-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Milano, Italy62.9320.36
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France64.1310.22
61Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France64.1310.22
-Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Amsterdam, Netherlands66.8120.13
61Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands66.8120.13
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France67.6950.31
65King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom68.6231.33
66Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy70.7020.09
67Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland70.7620.15
68University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)70.9310.06
-Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) → Environment Directorate, Paris, France72.2831.07
69Università degli Studi di Genova → Centro Interdisciplinario in Economia e Finanza (CINEF), Genova, Italy75.0910.57
70University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)75.1610.21
71Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg → Volkswirtschaftslehre, Bamberg, Germany75.7820.50
72Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO), Montréal, Canada76.3620.57
73University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada76.8530.49

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Kenneth L. Judd
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
1.57
2Whitney Newey
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.30
3Sendhil Mullainathan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
5.22
4Joseph Stiglitz5.65
5Peter Howitt
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
7.31
6Victor Chernozhukov
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
8.16
7Giovanni Dosi
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy
8.33
8Christian Hansen
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
9.71
9Susan Athey
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
10.16
10Andrea Roventini
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa, Italy
11.26
11Mauro Gallegati
Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Management, Ancona, Italy
13.97
12Melissa Dell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
14.41
13Guido Imbens
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
15.46
14Jack P.c. Kleijnen
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
16.91
15Dacheng Xiu
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
17.19
16Peter Bishop Dixon
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
18.33
17Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
18.59
18Leigh Tesfatsion
Iowa State University → Department of Economics, Ames, Iowa (United States)
20.20
19Jianqing 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)
21.87
20Peter C. B. Phillips
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
University of Auckland → Business School → Department of Economics, Auckland, New Zealand
23.17
21John Whalley
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
24.41
22James R. Markusen
University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)
24.64
23Christoph Böhringer (Christoph Boehringer)
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Oldenburg, Germany
26.32
24Juan 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)
26.71
25Mario Vanhoucke
Vlerick Business School, Gent, Belgium
26.76
26Manuel S. Santos
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
26.98
27Rafał Weron (Rafal Weron)
Politechnika Wrocławska → Katedra Badań Operacyjnych i Inteligencji Biznesowej, Wrocław, Poland
27.69
28Michael P Keane
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia
29.48
29Erik Brynjolfsson31.56
30Serguei Maliar
Santa Clara University → Department of Economics, Santa Clara, California (United States)
31.64
31Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
32.38
32Mauro 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
33.21
33Sherman Robinson
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
34.52
34Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
36.35
35Benjamin Moll
London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom
38.09
36David F. Hendry
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
38.54
37Robert M. Stern †39.73
38David Andrew Kendrick †42.17
39Anton Korinek
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
42.37
40João M.c. Santos Silva (Joao M.c. Santos Silva)
University of Surrey → School of Economics, Guildford, United Kingdom
42.57
41Thomas Warren Hertel
Purdue University → Department of Agricultural Economics → Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
43.89
42Laurence Kotlikoff
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
44.80
43Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
44.99
44Jens Ludwig
University of Chicago → NORC, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
45.26
45Mike Tsionas †47.89
46Maureen Therese Rimmer
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
49.16
47Giorgio Fagiolo
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna → Istituto di Economia, Pisa, Italy
49.92
48Carl Chiarella †50.47
49Jonathan Mark Horridge
Victoria University → Centre of Policy Studies and Impact Project (COPS), Melbourne, Australia
50.90
50Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
51.27
51Joseph Francois
Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland
51.75
52Lilia Maliar
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
52.11
53Geoffrey 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)
52.95
54Tarek Alexander Hassan
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
53.53
55Cars Hommes
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Center for Nonlinear Dynamics in Economics and Finance (CeNDEF), Amsterdam, Netherlands
54.23
56Matteo G. Richiardi
University of Essex → Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester, United Kingdom
55.85
57Gary Stanley Anderson57.25
58Mark Schaffer
Heriot-Watt University → Edinburgh Business School, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
57.30
59Andrea 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)
61.89
60George Kapetanios
King's College London → Business School, London, United Kingdom
62.47
61Richard S.j. Tol
University of Sussex → Sussex Business School → Department of Economics, Brighton, United Kingdom
62.97
62Andrew Feltenstein
Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
63.31
63John Gilbert
Utah State University → Jon M. Huntsman School of Business → Department of Economics and Finance, Logan, Utah (United States)
64.50
64J. Doyne Farmer
Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
64.88
65Thomas F. Rutherford
University of Wisconsin-Madison → Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
65.24
66Luc Savard
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO), Montréal, Canada
65.47
67Ke Tang
Tsinghua University → Institute of Economics, Beijing, China
68.09
68Domenico Delli Gatti
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza, Milano, Italy
68.19
69Michael Lechner
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
69.04
70Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Wolfgang Karl Haerdle)
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Berlin, Germany
69.64
71Neil Shephard
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
70.06
72Marco Raberto
Università degli Studi di Genova → Centro Interdisciplinario in Economia e Finanza (CINEF), Genova, Italy
70.83
73Ajay K. Agrawal
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
72.35
74Alberto Russo
Università Politecnica delle Marche → Facoltà di Economia "Giorgio Fuà" → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali, Ancona, Italy
72.67
75Greg Warren Kaplan
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
73.31
76Oliver Hinz
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
75.35
77Nicholas Rivers
Université d'Ottawa → École Supérieure d'Affaires Publiques et Internationales / Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Ottawa, Canada
75.87
78Frank Westerhoff (Frank H Westerhoff)
Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg → Volkswirtschaftslehre, Bamberg, Germany
76.12
79Marcelo Luis Veracierto
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago → Economic Research Department, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
80.47
80Karen Turner
University of Strathclyde → Strathclyde International Public Policy Institute (SIPPI), Glasgow, United Kingdom
83.36
81Luca Riccetti
Università degli Studi di Macerata → Facoltà di Economia e Diritto, Macerata, Italy
84.35
82Frank Schorfheide
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
85.27
83Martin Huber
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg → Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät → Departement d'Économie Politique, Fribourg/Freiburg, Switzerland
86.53
84Jurgen A. Doornik
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
86.91
85Markus Pelger
Stanford University → Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford, California (United States)
87.62
86J. Edward Taylor
University of California-Davis → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Davis, California (United States)
87.66
87Armin Scholl
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Jena, Germany
89.09
88Knut Einar Rosendahl
Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway
89.54
89John Creedy
Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand
90.51
Credits:
We do our best, but we cannot exclude errors.
IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.