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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Cultural Economics, as of March 2026

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  • For Cultural Economics, these are 275 institutions and 224 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1130.45
2Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy2.1340.39
3University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)3.3330.23
4University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)5.1210.06
5Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland6.1420.45
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy6.1620.12
6Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)6.2610.16
7Paris School of Economics, Paris, France6.7330.23
8Brandeis University → Department of Economics, International Business School, Waltham, Massachusetts (United States)8.0710.74
9Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France9.3440.40
10Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)9.9620.12
11University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)10.2710.42
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France10.3540.40
12Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina12.4910.42
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain12.5240.60
12Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain12.5240.60
14University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)12.9410.19
15Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)13.4110.12
16Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium14.3030.39
17Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands15.1420.69
-Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands15.1420.69
18New Economic School (NES), Moscow, Russia16.0820.40
19University of Minnesota → Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)18.2810.15
20Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)19.2810.07
21University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)19.7110.14
22Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands20.0820.11
23HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France20.3020.45
24Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management, Firenze, Italy21.3120.88
-Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Firenze, Italy21.3120.88
25Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy22.3510.04
26Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland23.4330.64
-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, Belgium23.5720.26
27University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)24.2320.10

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Joel Waldfogel2.10
2Matthew Aaron Gentzkow
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.77
3Bruno S. Frey
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland
4.27
4Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
5.45
5David Walter Galenson
Universidad del CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
6.47
6Jesse Shapiro
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
6.71
7Kathryn Graddy
Brandeis University → Department of Economics, International Business School, Waltham, Massachusetts (United States)
7.56
8Stefano DellaVigna
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
7.60
9Peter Nijkamp
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
8.35
10Guido Tabellini
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
10.92
11Alberto Alesina12.36
12Luc Renneboog
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
12.46
13Eliana La Ferrara12.77
14Karol Jan Borowiecki
Syddansk Universitet → Institut for Økonomi → Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG), Odense, Denmark
13.02
15Victor A. Ginsburgh13.12
16Simon Anderson
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
13.68
17Maria Petrova
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
14.95
18Thierry A. Verdier
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
16.58
19Federico Etro
Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Firenze, Italy
17.24
20Paola Sapienza
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
18.02
21Gérard Roland (Gerard Roland)
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
20.34
22Ricard Gil
Universidad de Navarra → IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
20.56
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