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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Economic Design, as of January 2026

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Economic Design

For Economic Design, these are 338 authors affiliated with 1337 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankInstitutionScoreAuthorsAuthor shares
1Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.55622.09
2Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

2.89661.24
3African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Yaoundé, Cameroun

3.5860.93
4Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

3.94502.23
5Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

5.331634.41
6Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

6.38691.37
7Department of Economics, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

7.41723.56
8National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

10.385170.88
9Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

10.6160.75
10Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

10.991841.93
11Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

12.071832.06
12Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

13751.66
---Finance Department, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

13.2590.5
---Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

14.38571.63
13Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

15.962221.22
14Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

16.35650.55
15Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

23.42841.07
16Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

23.811892.89
17Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

25.14630.23
---Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

25.141122.38
18Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Bonn, Germany

25.86520.66
19Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

27.62510.61
20Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

27.94751.23
21London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

28.533570.9
22Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

29.85871.13
23Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

31.3350.47
24Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

31.56612.63
---Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

31.96441.02
---Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

31.96351.02
25Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

33.9560.61
26Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

34.051840.49
27Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

35.6572.97
28Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

36.81320.94
29Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

38.48510.98
30Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

39.64520.5
31Grupo de Teoría de Juegos, Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis (IMASL), Universidad Nacional de San Luis

San Luis, Argentina

39.91147.18
32École de Management de Normandie

Caen/Le Havre, France

40.72100.34
33Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

41.46580.3
34Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

41.76710.95
---Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Bonn, Germany

41.9120.27
---Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

43.59332.91
35Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

44.32720.65
36Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

44.71450.48
37Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

46.66791.08
---Department of Economics, Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

46.66441.08
---Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

48.79280.1
38Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

St. Petersburg, Russia

50.3572.98
39Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

51.75570.82
40Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

52.58880.71
41Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

55.67370.29
---Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

56.09480.29
---International Laboratory of Game Theory and Decision Making, Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

St. Petersburg, Russia

57.32101.94
42Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel

57.87380.74
43Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions (STIET), University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

61.310.25
44Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

65.33410.4
45Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

66.692091.61
46Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal

Montréal, Canada

67.8310.77
47Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

68.15480.09
48HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

69.35410.86
49Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

72.04701.03
50School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

73.521041.69
51Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Basel, Switzerland

73.531040.48
52School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

73.711420.32
53Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

74.15560.26
54Resources for the Future (RFF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

74.4632.47
55Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

74.62601.46
56IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra

Barcelona, Spain

74.77180.05
57Department of Economics, Royal Holloway

Egham, United Kingdom

76.03360.52
58School of Economics, University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

76.88962.18
59Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST)

Palaiseau, France

77.711112.51
60Osaka University of Economics

Osaka, Japan

80.81171.76
61Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Mannheim, Germany

81.81912.79
62Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

La Jolla, California (USA)

82510.16
63Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

82.82600.68
64Faculty of Economics, Keio University

Tokyo, Japan

85.98451.09
65Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

86.23280.76
66Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

89.671010.4
67Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

San Francisco, California (USA)

90.08410.5
68Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin

Austin, Texas (USA)

90.35560.52
69Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

90.551201.53
70Banco de España

Madrid, Spain

91.181551.67
71Economics Department, University of Essex

Colchester, United Kingdom

92.75491.14
72School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney

Sydney, Australia

92.95811.51
73Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

93.939570.33
74Economics Department, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

94.66541.15
75Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ)

Montréal, Canada

94.73550.98
---Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

95.130.2
76Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Beer-Sheva, Israel

95.63220.4
77Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

95.71550.5
78Indian Statistical Institute

New Delhi, India

95.88234.41
79Department of Economics, Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas (USA)

97.09340.83
80Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

98.37910.22
81Department of Economics, University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia (USA)

98.95390.87
82Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln

Köln, Germany

100.01480.4
---Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

101.82100.66
83Department of Economics, University of Macau

Macau, Macao

102.52221.29
84Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

103.921340.55
---Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

104.56240.5
85Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

104.56300.5
---Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

105.2100.05
---Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

105.83490.55
86Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland (USA)

110.23330.08
87Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

110.45630.65
88Economics Department, University of California-Davis

Davis, California (USA)

110.49500.29
89Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Dallas, Texas (USA)

110.85460.27
90Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

112.73920.55
91Division of Economics, Seoul National University

Seoul, South Korea

113.11230.38
92Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)

Paris, France

117.371531.22
---Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

117.66170.51
---Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln

Köln, Germany

118.3580.08
93Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

118.771002.34
---Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

119.62170.12
94Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

119.62530.12
95Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

119.96410.67
96Department of Economics, Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

121.05300.09
97International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

121.885410.69
98Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Santa Cruz, California (USA)

122.39450.6
---Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

San Francisco, California (USA)

122.69330.46
99Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

125.48551.3
100Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University

Osaka, Japan

125.72130.38
101Management School, Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

131.17690.63
102Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina (USA)

132.5251.7
103Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

132.723970.48
---Department of Economics, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

132.79460.37
104Group for Research in Applied Economics (GRAPE)

Warszawa, Poland

133.8200.37
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

134.51640.26
105Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

134.511710.26
---Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

136.16280.3
106International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

136.471870.49
107Ekonomi Grubu, Sabancı Üniversitesi

İstanbul, Turkey

138.46171.33
108Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

142.42590.93
---CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

142.94930.13
109Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

145.2620.5
110HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Montréal, Canada

147.09411.37
---Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

147.32472.22
---Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

148.89660.35
111European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS)

Liège, Belgium

14920.05
112Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

149.71912.51
---Economics Discipline Group, Business School, University of Technology Sydney

Sydney, Australia

149.71392.51
113Department of Economics, Concordia University

Montréal, Canada

150.38200.5
114UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney

Sydney, Australia

151.76860.4
---School of Economics, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney

Sydney, Australia

151.76510.4
115École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France

153.871261.1
116Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

154.291060.5
117School of Economics, University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

156.95590.77
118ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V.

München, Germany

157.342021.38
119School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London

London, United Kingdom

163.64721.68
120Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

164.4520.29
121Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan

165.07402.32
122Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Berlin, Germany

165.96200.57
123School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

165.98350.03
124Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa (USA)

166.29481.02
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

166.44541.27
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

166.68550.13
125Economics Department, Queen's University

Kingston, Canada

167.28520.35
126Graduate School of Economics and Management, Université Paris-Saclay

Saint-Aubin, France

169.281001.17
127Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Paris, France

169.751430.42
---Economics Department, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona (USA)

170.03220.37
128Eller College of Management, University of Arizona

Tucson, Arizona (USA)

170.03280.37
129Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

170.83471.7
130Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF)

Napoli, Italy

171.38710.7
131Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University

Ramat-Gan, Israel

171.94210.27
132School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

173.34190.38
133Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore, Singapore

173.39430.25

The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Economic Design

For Economic Design, these are 338 authors affiliated with 1337 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankAuthorScore
1Herve Moulin

Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

2.37
2Tayfun Sonmez

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

4.04
3Dirk Bergemann

Economics Department, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

4.16
4Joshua D Angrist

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

4.67
5Paul Klemperer

Economics Group, Nuffield College, Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Department of Economics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

4.9
6Darrell Duffie

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

5.11
7Parag Pathak

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

5.63
8Stephen Morris

Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

7.65
9M. Bumin Yenmez

Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

10.07
10Piotr Dworczak

Group for Research in Applied Economics (GRAPE), Warszawa, Poland
Department of Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

11.75
11Benny Moldovanu

Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

11.86
12Yeon-Koo Che

Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin (USA)
Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, New York City, New York (USA)

12.71
13Michael Ostrovsky

Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA)

13.68
14Scott Duke Kominers

Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

13.85
15Marek Pycia

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

14.78
16Szilvia Papai

Department of Economics, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ), Montréal, Canada

16.08
17Utku Unver

Department of Economics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

16.31
18Federico Echenique

Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, California (USA)

16.48
19Anna Bogomolnaia

Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

19.02
20P. Jean-Jacques Herings

CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg, Tilburg, Netherlands

19.19
21Bettina Klaus

Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

25.31
22Shigehiro Serizawa

Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan

25.5
23Roland Strausz

Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
CESifo, München, Germany

26.85
24Lars Ehlers

Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

27.29
25Philip A. Haile

Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

30.39
26Yves Sprumont

Department of Economics, Business School, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

30.87
27Aner Sela

Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

31.88
28YingHua He †

34.7
29Philippe Jehiel

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

34.95
30Hans Gersbach

CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, Germany

35.6
31Seema Jayachandran

Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

36.02
32Salvador Barbera

Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain

36.19
33Francesco Decarolis

BAFFI Centre on Economics, Finance and Regulation, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy
Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy

36.38

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