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

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  • For Economic Design, these are 338 institutions and 346 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)151.76
2Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)2.3831.57
3Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)2.7562.88
4Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)3.7650.86
5Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom5.8120.69
6University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom5.8331.62
-University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom5.8331.62
7Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France7.1073.02
8Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain7.2551.21
9Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany9.3420.40
-Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany10.4210.28
10Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)10.9850.92
11University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)11.1410.32
12National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)11.4560.13
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica → Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain12.5130.63
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona → Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Barcelona, Spain12.5130.63
13Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland13.3541.98
14Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.2920.49
-Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom14.3410.10
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland14.3531.48
-Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia15.0530.65
14Deakin University → Business School, Melbourne, Australia15.0530.65
16Paris School of Economics, Paris, France16.0430.54
17Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany16.3820.30
18Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland18.0631.09
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland19.0931.09
19Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)19.3110.59
20National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) → Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management, St. Petersburg, Russia20.4652.00
21Universidad Nacional de San Luis → Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis (IMASL) → Grupo de Teoría de Juegos, San Luis, Argentina21.3285.76
-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, Russia21.4852.00
22University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada21.8530.65
23Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)22.3820.45
24Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)22.6020.47
25University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)26.7310.09
26University of Tokyo → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan27.6320.68
27Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel29.5510.19
28Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)29.7220.43
-Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Berlin, Germany29.9010.19
29Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada29.9410.25
30Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan31.3021.60
31Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands32.4910.18
32Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium32.9820.37
-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, Belgium32.9820.37
33Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)33.2010.58

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Herve Moulin
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2.41
2Dirk Bergemann
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
3.88
3Tayfun Sönmez (Tayfun Sonmez)
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
3.96
4Darrell Duffie
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
4.04
5Joshua D Angrist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
4.45
6Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
5.00
7Parag Pathak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
6.18
8Stephen Morris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
6.94
9Federico Echenique
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
9.23
10Piotr Dworczak
Group for Research in Applied Economics (GRAPE), Warszawa, Poland
Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
10.44
11M. Bumin Yenmez
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
11.07
12Benny Moldovanu
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich → Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Bonn, Germany
11.65
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)
12.13
14Michael Ostrovsky
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
12.96
15Marek Pycia
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
14.52
16Scott Duke Kominers
Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
15.59
17M. Utku Ünver (M. Utku Unver)
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
16.97
18Szilvia Pápai (Szilvia Papai)
Concordia University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ), Montréal, Canada
17.91
19Anna Bogomolnaia
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
19.41
20Roland Strausz
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Berlin, Germany
24.79
21Shigehiro Serizawa
Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan
28.91
22Lars Ehlers
Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
28.94
23Philip A. Haile28.95
24Bettina Klaus
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
30.07
25Yves Sprumont
Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
30.35
26Aner Sela
Ben Gurion University of the Negev → Economics Department, Beer-Sheva, Israel
32.05
27P. Jean-Jacques Herings
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
32.75
28YingHua He33.67
29Philippe Jehiel
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
34.36
30Juan Matias Ortner
Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
35.13
31Seema Jayachandran
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
35.57
32Hitoshi Matsushima
University of Tokyo → Faculty of Economics, Tokyo, Japan
35.82
33James Albrecht
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
37.27
34Francesco Decarolis
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → BAFFI Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation, Milano, Italy
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
37.98
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