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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Industrial Organization, as of August 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France1.34226.77
2University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)1.5420.89
3National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)2.85241.20
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)4.4740.65
5Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom4.9841.31
6Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)6.8940.43
7London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom7.30131.01
-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, Belgium8.3261.17
7Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium8.3261.17
9Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.4420.62
10University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.4610.17
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)11.5710.17
11University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom11.9820.44
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom12.16100.25
12KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium12.6291.59
13New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)14.0030.58
-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France14.0510.05
14Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany14.5683.30
-New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)15.0630.58
15University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)15.0631.11
16Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)15.2910.31
17University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)16.5120.12
18University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada17.8031.89
19Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)18.4140.50
-Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät → Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf, Germany19.41154.52
19Heinriche-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Düsseldorf, Germany19.41154.52
-KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium20.7140.70
21Universidad de Navarra → IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain21.4720.42
22Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)21.7910.33
-Northwestern University → Department of Economics → Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Evanston, Illinois (United States)22.8510.33
23Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway23.4761.39
24University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada24.6220.27
25University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)25.4420.50
26Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain26.2661.26
27Nanjing University of Science and Technology → School of Economics and Management, Nanjing, China27.1511
28University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)28.8810.12
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway29.3741.11
29Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)29.5220.64
30Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)30.7920.17
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain30.8240.91
31Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy31.0161.50
32Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria31.1361.80
33Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany32.5820.26
34University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)33.7820.81
35University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)34.1731.22
36Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland34.3560.36
37Paris School of Economics, Paris, France37.0530.55
38University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom37.5550.49
39University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)37.5820.93
40Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden37.80102.63
-Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Wien, Austria38.4061.69
41Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom38.73290.75
42WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria39.8931.22
-University of Iowa → Tippie College of Business → Department of Economics, Iowa City, Iowa (United States)40.4610.45
42University of Iowa → Tippie College of Business, Iowa City, Iowa (United States)40.4610.45
44University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada41.2520.31
45Universidade do Minho → Escola de Economia e Gestão, Braga, Portugal42.4431.39
46Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel43.2210.26
47Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)43.8210.20
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland45.1420.15
48Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy45.5761.42
-Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management → Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, Firenze, Italy47.2730.91
48Università degli Studi di Firenze → Scuola di Economia e Management, Firenze, Italy47.2730.91
-KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics → Centrum voor Economie en Duurzaam Ondernemen (CEDON), Leuven, Belgium48.7310.15
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy49.1130.42
50Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)50.8831.49
51Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)51.2630.88
52Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)51.4910.12
-University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business → Strategy and Business Economics Division, Vancouver, Canada51.8910.07
53DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany52.0651.32
54Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)52.9810.22

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Carl Shapiro
University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)
1.09
2Michael Whinston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
5.89
3Allen N. Berger
Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Financial Institutions Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
6.71
4John Vickers
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
6.93
5Mark Armstrong
University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
7.63
6Margaret Slade
University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada
7.64
7Yaojie Zhang
Nanjing University of Science and Technology → School of Economics and Management, Nanjing, China
8.16
8Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
8.99
9Jean Tirole
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France
9.97
10Patrick Rey
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
10.90
11Bronwyn H Hall
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
11.10
12Mark J. Roberts
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
15.33
13Jacques Thisse (Jacques François Thisse)
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, Belgium
15.66
14Simon Anderson
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
16.36
15Aviv Nevo
Northwestern University → Department of Economics → Center for the Study of Industrial Organization (CSIO), Evanston, Illinois (United States)
16.38
16David Levine17.91
17Philippe Aghion
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
18.12
18Marc J. Melitz
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
20.13
19Xavier Vives
Universidad de Navarra → IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
21.33
20Chad Syverson
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
22.50
21Elhanan Helpman
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
22.66
22Joel Waldfogel22.67
23Arijit Mukherjee
University of Nottingham → Business School, Nottingham, United Kingdom
24.00
24Jay Pil Choi
Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)
24.06
25Rabah Amir
University of Iowa → Tippie College of Business → Department of Economics, Iowa City, Iowa (United States)
24.92
26Steven Tadelis
University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)
27.03
27Erik Brynjolfsson28.23
28Volker Nocke
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
30.29
29John van Reenen
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
31.02
30Jean Gabszewicz
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, Belgium
31.04
31Paul Joskow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
31.30
32Klaus M. Schmidt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
33.28
33Matthew Aaron Gentzkow
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
33.48
34Massimo Motta
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain
34.14
35Martin Peitz
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
34.41
36Jan K. De Loecker
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics → Centrum voor Economie en Duurzaam Ondernemen (CEDON), Leuven, Belgium
34.61
37Jan K. Brueckner
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
34.73
38Nicholas S. Economides
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
34.78
39Yongmin Chen
University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)
35.74
40Toshihiro Matsumura
University of Tokyo → Institute of Social Science, Tokyo, Japan
37.24
41Joshua Gans
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
38.21
42Martin Gaynor
Carnegie Mellon University → H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)
38.77
43Luis M B Cabral
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
39.49
44Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
40.17
45Gordon M. Phillips
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
40.21
46Stephen Morris
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
40.51
47Lawrence J. White
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
42.60
48Panle Jia Barwick
University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
44.18
49Bruno Jullien
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
45.85
50Dirk Bergemann
Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
46.80
51Saul Lach
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
48.34
52Josh Lerner
Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
49.77
53David Martimort
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
50.38
54John Haltiwanger
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
52.89
55Avi Goldfarb
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
53.37
56Keith Head
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business → Strategy and Business Economics Division, Vancouver, Canada
54.22
57Odd Rune Straume
Universidade do Minho → Escola de Economia e Gestão, Braga, Portugal
Universidade do Minho → Escola de Economia e Gestão → Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas e Empresariais (NIPE), Braga, Portugal
55.11
58Ali Yurukoglu
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
55.32
59Ashish Arora
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
57.18
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