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Top 10% Institutions and Economists in the Field of Economic Design, as of May 2025

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Top 10% institutions in the field of Economic Design

For Economic Design, these are 340 authors affiliated with 1301 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

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

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

2.37632.13
2Department of Economics, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

2.99651.25
3African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI)

Yaoundé, Cameroun

3.2460.93
4Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stanford, California (USA)

4.21502.19
5Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

4.811565.3
6Department of Economics, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA)

7.16713.26
7Economics Department, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

7.72660.99
8Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

10.48150.75
9Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

12.571771.82
10National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

12.74900.78
---Finance Department, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland (USA)

12.9690.5
11Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

13.35670.55
12Paris School of Economics

Paris, France

14.562221.19
13Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

15.57741.35
---Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

Glasgow, United Kingdom

17.32561.33
14Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

18.311852.49
15Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

18.9550.81
---Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Universität Zürich

Zürich, Switzerland

19.791101.97
16Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (USA)

19.87830.99
17Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

24.8640.22
18Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Bonn, Germany

25.05490.66
19Economics Department, Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island (USA)

25.12632.65
20Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

27.24841.13
21London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

27.253500.89
22Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

28.47350.48
23Economics Department, Georgetown University

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

30.64501.02
24Department of Economics, University of Toronto

Toronto, Canada

30.85751.11
25Department of Economics, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

31.74610.57
26Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

31.891850.49
27Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

33.65562.93
28École de Management de Normandie

Caen/Le Havre, France

34.2100.34
29Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

35.48310.94
30Grupo de Teoría de Juegos, Instituto de Matemática Aplicada San Luis (IMASL), Universidad Nacional de San Luis

San Luis, Argentina

36.12147.12
31Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

36.61540.52
32Department of Economics, Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

38.89690.96
---Wirtschaftstheoretische Abteilung II, Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

Bonn, Germany

39.6920.27
---Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

40.43420.77
---Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

40.43340.77
---Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

41.1322.87
33Department of Economics, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

41.63480.49
34Department of Economics, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

42.97720.65
35School of Economics, University of Queensland

Brisbane, Australia

46.88992.58
36Department of Economics, Oxford University

Oxford, United Kingdom

47.531812.3
37Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Bogotá, Colombia

51.771250.58
---Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

Milano, Italy

51.8500.28
38Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

52.46900.69
39Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

55.52440.21
40Department of Economics, Princeton University

Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

55.91520.1
41Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Israel

57.92380.74
42Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Basel, Switzerland

58.641030.51
43Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

60.172111.66
44Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions (STIET), University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

60.5510.25
45Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

64.02780.7
---Department of Economics, Business School, Deakin University

Melbourne, Australia

64.02430.7
46Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal

Montréal, Canada

64.42310.76
47Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST)

Palaiseau, France

65.751082.72
48Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU)

New York City, New York (USA)

66.94580.78
49Economics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, Wisconsin (USA)

68.79360.26
50IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra

Barcelona, Spain

69.06190.06
51Department of Economics, University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

Los Angeles, California (USA)

69.42560.26
52Saint Petersburg Branch, School of Economics and Management, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

St. Petersburg, Russia

70.87521.86
53Resources for the Future (RFF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

70.98622.57
54Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

La Jolla, California (USA)

71.41530.17
---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

72.4691.82
55Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

73.14550.46
---European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

73.67660.31
56Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Bruxelles, Belgium

73.671760.31
57Osaka University of Economics

Osaka, Japan

73.71171.83
58Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

73.74420.36
59Banco de España

Madrid, Spain

77.841471.55
60HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

77.88410.84
61Economics Department, University of Essex

Colchester, United Kingdom

79.64511.16
62Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

79.681221.61
63Faculty of Economics, Keio University

Tokyo, Japan

79.75431.11
64Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

79.871360.57
---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

81.58500.57
65Indian Statistical Institute

New Delhi, India

81.68245.45
66Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

82.61970.44
67Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis

St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

83.92300.76
68Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

84.01590.66
69Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim

Mannheim, Germany

85.01700.94
70Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

San Francisco, California (USA)

86.79410.49
71Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ)

Montréal, Canada

87.31580.98
72School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney

Sydney, Australia

88.01821.51
---Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Toulouse, France

88.93130.09
73Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin

Austin, Texas (USA)

90.25560.55
74International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

92.595380.75
75School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

93.361400.26
76Department of Economics, Royal Holloway

Egham, United Kingdom

94.97350.42
77Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)

Mannheim, Germany

95.591902.77
78Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln

Köln, Germany

96.64460.4
79Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

97.03500.44
80Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany

97.419650.29
---Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

97.93100.66
81Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland (USA)

99.11320.09
82Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

Beer-Sheva, Israel

99.38240.36
83Department of Economics, Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas (USA)

101.59350.79
84Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

103.41992.34
---Finance Unit, Harvard Business School, Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

103.81100.05
---Institut für Wirtschaftstheorie I, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität Berlin

Berlin, Germany

103.9530.17
85School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

104.641031.5
86Department of Economics, Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia (USA)

105.92310.09
87Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Dallas, Texas (USA)

107.56580.28
88Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX)

Paris, France

108.931531.13
89Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Tokyo, Japan

109.71410.67
90Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Coventry, United Kingdom

110.93870.17
---Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

111.8240.49
91Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus

Nicosia, Cyprus

111.8300.49
---Staatswissenschaftliches Seminar, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität zu Köln

Köln, Germany

11280.08
92Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Madrid, Spain

112.79600.95
93Economics Department, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC)

Santa Cruz, California (USA)

113.47460.4
94Ekonomi Grubu, Sabancı Üniversitesi

İstanbul, Turkey

117.07161.33
95Economics Department, University of California-Davis

Davis, California (USA)

117.57500.24
96Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)

117.82561.3
---Department of Finance, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

118.18180.12
97Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois (USA)

118.18540.12
98Economics Department, University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA)

119.66610.49
99European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS)

Liège, Belgium

120.6420.05
100Poole College of Management, North Carolina State University

Raleigh, North Carolina (USA)

121.23251.65
---Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

San Francisco, California (USA)

123.39330.45
101Division of Economics, Seoul National University

Seoul, South Korea

126.58240.33
102International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

127.411870.38
103Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka University

Osaka, Japan

128.08140.36
---Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

129.36472.22
104Economics Department, Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan (USA)

129.9540.76
105HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Montréal, Canada

133.3411.38
106Department of Economics, University of Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana (USA)

133.6590.5
---Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

137.89270.3
107ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V.

München, Germany

138.611590.93
---Department of Economics, Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University

West Lafayette, Indiana (USA)

138.99430.32
108Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

Kyoto, Japan

139.58412.35
---Research and Statistics Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

New York City, New York (USA)

140.04650.39
109Department of Economics, Concordia University

Montréal, Canada

140.33200.5
110Department of Economics, Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa (USA)

142.69481.04
111UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney

Sydney, Australia

145.12860.4
---School of Economics, UNSW Business School, UNSW Sydney

Sydney, Australia

145.12510.4
112Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Groningen, Netherlands

145.17880.17
113École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France

145.591251.13
114Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

London, United Kingdom

147.523830.47
115Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Berlin, Germany

148.47200.73
---Department of Economics, Sciences économiques, Sciences Po

Paris, France

148.99561.33
116School of Economics, University of Bristol

Bristol, United Kingdom

149.39570.77
---Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales)

Jouy-en-Josas, France

150.97170.49
117Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York

York, United Kingdom

153.55910.97
118School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University

New York City, New York (USA)

154.27350.03
119School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary University of London

London, United Kingdom

154.59711.7
---Abteilung "Verhalten auf Märkten", Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)

Berlin, Germany

160.4630.62
---Economics Department, London School of Economics (LSE)

London, United Kingdom

161.25560.13
120Economics Department, Queen's University

Kingston, Canada

161.4520.35
121Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, California (USA)

162.49520.28
---Department of Economics, Management School, Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

164.36520.58
122Management School, Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

164.36680.58
123Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University

Ramat-Gan, Israel

165.68210.27
124Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

170.07481.2
125European Central Bank

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

170.442710.7
126Graduate School of Economics and Management, Université Paris-Saclay

Saint-Aubin, France

171.42951.09
---CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, School of Economics and Management, Universiteit van Tilburg

Tilburg, Netherlands

172.3950.1
127Department of Economics, National University of Singapore (NUS)

Singapore, Singapore

173.26420.25
---Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics (BSE)

Barcelona, Spain

173.591020.46
128Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Pasadena, California (USA)

175.13171.3
129Department of Economics, McMaster University

Hamilton, Canada

175.23520.42
130School of Management, Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut (USA)

178.42410.17

The rankings

Top 10% authors in the field of Economic Design

For Economic Design, these are 340 authors affiliated with 1301 institutions.
All authors classified in this field.

RankAuthorScore
1Herve Moulin

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

2.44
2Tayfun Sonmez

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

3.96
3Joshua D Angrist

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

4.39
4Paul Klemperer

5.03
5Dirk Bergemann

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

5.22
6Parag Pathak

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

5.62
7Darrell Duffie

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

5.81
8Stephen Morris

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

8.42
9M. Bumin Yenmez

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

9.5
10Benny Moldovanu

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

11.95
11Michael Ostrovsky

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

13.88
12Szilvia Papai

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

14.73
13Federico Echenique

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

14.85
14Marek Pycia

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

14.9
15Utku Unver

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

18.69
16Yeon-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)

20.63
17Shigehiro Serizawa

Osaka University of Economics, Osaka, Japan

20.92
18Scott Duke Kominers

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

21.7
19Piotr Dworczak

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

23.11
20Lars Ehlers

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

26.71
21Philip A. Haile

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

26.81
22Philippe Jehiel

Paris School of Economics, Paris, France

30.48
23Yves Sprumont

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

31.06
24Roland Strausz

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

31.75
25Seema Jayachandran

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

32.41
26Francesco 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

32.73
27Bettina Klaus

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

33
28Aner Sela

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

33.8
29Axel Ockenfels

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

37.18
30Hitoshi Matsushima

Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

37.69
31James Albrecht

Economics Department, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia (USA)

38.21
32P. Jean-Jacques Herings

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

39.03
33Katalin Springel

HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada

39.09
34Mariagiovanna Baccara

Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (USA)

39.74

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