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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Economic Design, as of May 2026

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  • For Economic Design, these are 340 institutions and 352 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.0051.26
2Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)2.5531.57
3Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)2.7262.87
4Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)3.7250.87
5Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France4.4993.21
-University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom6.6931.62
5University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom6.6931.62
7Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom6.7520.69
8Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain7.3662.04
9Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany9.8420.40
10University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)10.9010.33
11Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)10.9850.91
-Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany11.1510.28
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica → Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain12.3730.63
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain12.3730.63
12National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)12.4960.13
13Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland13.3141.98
14Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.1820.49
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland14.3131.48
-Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia14.7030.65
14Deakin University → Business School, Melbourne, Australia14.7030.65
-Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom14.9710.10
16Paris School of Economics, Paris, France16.2030.54
17Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany16.5120.30
18Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland17.3931.09
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland18.4331.09
19Universidad Nacional de San Luis → Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis (IMASL) → Grupo de Teoría de Juegos, San Luis, Argentina18.7285.76
20Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)19.2310.59
21National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) → Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management, St. Petersburg, Russia20.2252.00
22University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada21.0130.65
-National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) → Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management → International Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making, St. Petersburg, Russia21.2452.00
23Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)22.0420.46
24Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)22.5720.45
25University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)26.8910.09
26University of Tokyo → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan27.6720.68
27Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan28.0021.62
28Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel29.7710.19
29Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)29.9020.43
-Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Berlin, Germany29.9810.19
30Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada30.0610.25
31Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands30.6610.18
32Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium30.8020.38
-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, Belgium30.8020.38
33Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)32.9210.58
34Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)35.2510.60

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Herve Moulin
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2.66
2Dirk Bergemann
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
3.73
3Tayfun Sönmez (Tayfun Sonmez)
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
4.29
4Darrell Duffie
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
5.10
5Joshua D Angrist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
5.15
6Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
5.19
7Parag Pathak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
6.16
8Stephen Morris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
7.38
9Federico Echenique
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
8.37
10Piotr Dworczak
Group for Research in Applied Economics (GRAPE), Warszawa, Poland
Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
10.97
11M. Bumin Yenmez
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
11.11
12Benny Moldovanu
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany
12.23
13Yeon-Koo Che
University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
13.12
14Michael Ostrovsky
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
13.21
15Marek Pycia
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
14.10
16Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
15.95
17M. Utku Ünver (M. Utku Unver)
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
16.39
18Szilvia Pápai (Szilvia Papai)
Concordia University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ), Montréal, Canada
18.20
19Jean Charles Rochet
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
19.10
20Anna Bogomolnaia
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
19.50
21Shigehiro Serizawa
Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan
22.64
22Roland Strausz
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Berlin, Germany
24.83
23P. Jean-Jacques Herings
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
27.46
24Bettina Klaus
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
27.81
25Alex Smolin
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
28.08
26Lars Ehlers
Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
28.11
27Hitoshi Matsushima
University of Tokyo → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan
29.03
28Philip A. Haile29.45
29Yves Sprumont
Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
29.64
30Katalin Springel
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada
31.65
31Aner Sela
Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel
33.22
32YingHua He34.33
33Juan Matias Ortner
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
34.76
34Yasunori Okumura35.81
35Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
36.44
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