Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Public Economics, as of April 2026

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For Public Economics, these are 1176 institutions and 1696 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1	77	4.34
2	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	2.00	15	3.40
3	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	3	9	1.32
4	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.21	9	1.09
5	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	4.77	29	4.49
6	University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	6.29	2	1.05
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	6.54	10	1.74
7	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	6.79	27	4.88
8	International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	8.28	20	9.84
9	Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom	8.53	67	1.91
10	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	10.09	6	2.12
-	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics → Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Berkeley, California (United States)	11.12	1	0.52
11	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	11.37	8	1.67
12	Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.02	9	0.74
13	Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	14.76	6	1.52
14	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	15.60	4	0.80
15	Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	16.30	5	0.82
16	Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	16.74	4	1.89
17	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	18.70	7	1.28
18	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	18.94	4	0.59
19	University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	19.27	6	0.58
20	University of Michigan → Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	20.43	1	0.38
-	University of Michigan → Ross School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	20.43	1	0.38
21	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	21.11	10	1.16
22	CESifo, München, Germany	21.80	95	3.78
23	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	22.53	6	2.20
24	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	22.54	9	1.19
25	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	24.00	12	1.10
26	ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	24.96	22	4.21
27	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	25.46	2	0.85
28	Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	26.81	16	3.52
29	Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	27.14	5	0.73
30	World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	28.26	16	5.22
31	Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	28.92	3	1.06
32	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	29.26	13	3.16
33	Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala, Sweden	33.05	16	5.12
34	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France	33.10	18	2.53
35	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	33.49	4	0.56
36	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	33.64	100	5.34
-	Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	35.18	8	0.90
37	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands	36.52	3	0.83
38	Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	38.10	4	1.48
39	Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	39.18	6	3.86
40	Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom	39.18	7	0.99
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	39.32	5	0.41
41	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	40.33	3	0.38
-	Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	41.93	2	1.11
-	Oxford University → Saïd Business School → Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford, United Kingdom	42.17	6	0.83
42	Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	44.41	2	0.78
-	Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	45.41	8	1.26
43	University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	45.66	3	1.14
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	45.91	93	2.01
44	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	46.04	3	0.24
45	University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	47.28	4	1.08
46	Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France	47.66	25	7.26
47	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	47.77	5	1.51
48	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	48.39	11	2.24
49	Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	50.24	6	2.39
50	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	50.25	10	1.61
51	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	51.28	8	0.90
-	Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	51.47	2	0.78
52	University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	51.64	2	1.71
53	Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	53.51	3	0.96
54	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	53.69	1	0.69
55	University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	53.88	5	0.90
56	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	54.00	3	0.83
-	University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	54.70	1	0.69
57	Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	55.68	4	1.52
58	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland	56.26	8	1.63
59	Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	56.71	3	0.63
60	Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	57.18	4	2.13
61	Government of the United States → Department of the Treasury, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.45	4	2.64
-	Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	57.98	1	0.48
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	58.29	7	2.13
-	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	58.46	8	1.09
62	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	61.83	3	0.63
63	Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	62.44	5	0.31
64	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway	62.53	14	7.29
-	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	63.99	1	0.05
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	64.20	1	0.24
65	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	64.44	2	0.37
66	Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden	65.16	17	4.97
-	Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) → Economics Department, Paris, France	66.62	16	4.17
67	Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	68.17	7	2.06
68	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	69.07	14	3.81
69	Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)	69.91	3	1.03
70	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London, United Kingdom	70.03	19	0.97
71	Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	70.04	1	0.30
-	Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	70.04	1	0.30
-	World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	71.41	5	2.40
72	European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	71.77	6	1.58
73	Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	74.03	4	0.91
74	University of Manchester → School of Social Sciences → Department of Economics, Manchester, United Kingdom	74.92	7	1.66
75	Stockholms Universitet → Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholm, Sweden	76.04	6	2.04
76	Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	76.52	9	4.59
77	Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	76.63	5	0.32
78	Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	78.42	4	0.79
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain	79.13	8	1.37
79	Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain	79.23	14	3.93
80	International Institute for Management (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland	79.70	1	0.18
81	Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany	79.94	7	1.95
82	Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway	80.62	10	3.49
83	London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom	80.69	3	0.73
-	London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	81.69	3	0.73
-	London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom	82.14	7	0.16
-	Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen → Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala, Sweden	83.42	7	1.13
84	European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain	86.45	19	8.43
-	Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	86.53	5	2.10
85	Stony Brook University - SUNY → Economics Department, Stony Brook, New York (United States)	88.28	3	0.91
86	University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)	88.76	3	1.02
87	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	89.06	2	1.19
88	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	89.10	6	1.14
89	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	90.28	2	0.32
90	European Commission → Directorate-General Taxation and Custom Union, Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium	90.28	3	2.15
91	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	90.43	8	1.50
92	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany	90.54	5	1.14
93	Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)	91.69	3	0.19
94	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	93.28	4	1.43
95	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	93.46	4	0.37
-	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain	93.56	2	0.16
96	Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile	96.51	2	0.47
97	UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia	96.76	4	0.80
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	97.66	2	0.19
98	Universität Basel → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Basel, Switzerland	98.42	5	0.55
99	York University → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	98.50	1	0.88
100	Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	99.22	1	0.44
-	Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	99.22	1	0.44
101	University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada	99.82	5	1.18
102	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	101.54	7	2.34
103	Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany	101.95	21	6.65
104	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	103.48	3	0.32
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	104.49	6	2.09
105	Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy	105.29	7	0.64
106	University of Florida → Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, Florida (United States)	107.01	1	0.39
107	University of California-Riverside → Department of Economics, Riverside, California (United States)	107.06	2	0.98
108	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi, Trondheim, Norway	109.11	5	1.39
-	Norges teknisk-naturvitenskaplige universitet (NTNU) → Fakultet for Økonomi → Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Trondheim, Norway	109.11	5	1.39
109	Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)	110.26	1	0.77
110	University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	110.38	2	0.20
-	Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) → ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP), London, United Kingdom	111.40	9	0.48
111	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	112.46	2	0.50
-	UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia	114.59	2	0.24
112	Appalachian State University → Department of Economics, Boone, North Carolina (United States)	116.19	1	0.64
113	California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)	116.29	1	0.13
-	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	116.66	1	0.17
-	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	117.26	2	1.11
114	DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany	119.13	16	2.34
115	Government of Norway → Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Oslo, Norway	119.50	10	4.35
116	American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States)	120.11	1	0.26
117	Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain	120.23	4	0.35

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Joel Slemrod University of Michigan → Ross School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States) University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	2.44
2	Emmanuel Saez University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	2.47
3	Martin S. Feldstein †	2.97
4	Alan Auerbach University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics → Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance, Berkeley, California (United States)	4.32
5	James Poterba Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	4.45
6	Alberto Alesina †	7.13
7	Peter A. Diamond Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	9.08
8	James R. Hines, Jr. University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)	12.62
9	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.46
10	Torsten Persson Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	13.63
11	James Alm Tulane University → Department of Economics, New Orleans, Louisiana (United States)	13.66
12	Michael Keen International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	15.24
13	Lawrence H. Summers	16.28
14	Wallace E. Oates †	17.21
15	Whitney Newey Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	17.63
16	Stephen Coate National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	18.22
17	Robin Boadway Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada	19.42
18	Raj Chetty Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.24
19	Daron Acemoglu Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	21.47
20	Roger H. Gordon University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	22.96
21	John Creedy Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	24.47
22	Friedrich Georg Schneider Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Linz, Austria	25.85
23	John Douglas Wilson Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)	26.38
24	Laurence Kotlikoff Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)	27.04
25	Michael P. Devereux Oxford University → Saïd Business School → Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford, United Kingdom	27.62
26	Joseph Stiglitz	28.10
27	Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	28.66
28	David Wildasin University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)	29.38
29	Gabriel Zucman Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	30.79
30	Guy Laroque University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France	30.82
31	Stefanie Stantcheva Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	31.64
32	Robert Glenn Hubbard Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	32.33
33	Rebecca M. Blank †	32.78
34	Thomas Sargent	32.86
35	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	33.69
36	Timothy Besley London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	34.55
37	Wojciech Kopczuk Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	37.51
38	Ben Lockwood University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	38.23
39	Assar Lindbeck †	39.82
40	Richard Blundell (Richard W. Blundell) University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom	40.22
41	Jeffrey B. Liebman Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	43.74
42	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	45.47
43	Caroline Hoxby Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	46.61
44	A.L.Bovenberg Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands	47.73
45	Guido Tabellini Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	51.08
46	Daniel Kaufmann Brookings Institution → Global Economy and Development Program, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	52.63
47	Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → International Center for Public Policy, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	53.17
48	Clemens Fuest ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	53.82
49	William Glenn Gale Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	55.11
50	Andrew Samwick Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)	55.44
51	Jose Scheinkman Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	55.54
52	Pranab K. Bardhan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	57.60
53	David Joulfaian Government of the United States → Department of the Treasury, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	57.69
54	Don Fullerton National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business → Department of Finance, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	57.69
55	James J. Heckman University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	59.15
56	Aart Kraay World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	59.19
57	Bruno S. Frey Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel/Zürich, Switzerland	61.12
58	Jack M. Mintz University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	61.63
59	Jean Tirole Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) → Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse, France	63.45
60	Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	65.35
61	Firouz Gahvari University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	65.82
62	Andrew Abel University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	65.93
63	Richard M. Bird †	66.19
64	Kjetil Storesletten University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	67.22
65	Pierre Pestieau 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	67.31
66	Andreas Peichl ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany	68.60
67	Peter H. Egger Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland	69.12
68	Owen Zidar Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	69.80
69	Norman Gemmell Victoria University of Wellington → Wellington School of Business and Government, Wellington, New Zealand	70.86
70	David E. Card	72.05
71	Bruce D. Meyer	72.50
72	Charles Manski Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States) Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	72.76
73	Dhammika Dharmapala	74.03
74	Richard Baldwin International Institute for Management (IMD), Lausanne, Switzerland	76.01
75	Sören Blomquist (Soren Blomquist) Uppsala Universitet → Nationalekonomiska Institutionen → Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS), Uppsala, Sweden	76.02
76	Helmuth Cremer Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	76.02
77	Dennis Epple Carnegie Mellon University → Tepper School of Business Administration → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)	78.06
78	Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato (Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato) Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	80.49
79	George R. Zodrow Rice University → Department of Economics, Houston, Texas (United States)	81.29
80	Olivier Blanchard Paris School of Economics, Paris, France Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	82.14
81	David Wise Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	83.57
82	Jonathan Heathcote Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	85.07
83	B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	86.12
84	Sam Bucovetsky York University → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	86.94
85	Xavier Sala-i-Martin Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	86.96
86	Ruud A. de Mooij International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	87.24
87	Assaf Razin	88.32
88	David Neumark University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	92.20
89	W Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)	92.21
90	Richard J. Cebula University of Tennessee-Knoxville → Haslam College of Business → Department of Economics, Knoxville, Tennessee (United States)	92.28
91	Gilbert Metcalf Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)	93.47
92	Steven Mark Fazzari Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)	93.54
93	Casey Mulligan University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	94.04
94	Jacques H. Dreze †	94.19
95	Thomas Piketty Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	94.57
96	Camille Landais London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom	95.95
97	Mark Huggett Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	97.89
98	Harald Uhlig University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	99.24
99	Thiess Büttner (Thiess Buettner) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany	101.23
100	David R. Agrawal University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)	102.36
101	Andreas Haufler Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	103.63
102	Alexander Daniel Klemm International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	106.82
103	Gustavo Jaime Ventura Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)	107.30
104	Kevin Allen Hassett Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)	108.65
105	Enrico Moretti University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	112.25
106	Michael McKee Appalachian State University → Department of Economics, Boone, North Carolina (United States)	112.44
107	Dayanand Manoli Georgetown University → McCourt School of Public Policy, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	115.33
108	Florian Scheuer Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	116.43
109	Bronwyn H Hall University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	117.50
110	Bob Chirinko University of Illinois at Chicago → College of Business Administration → Department of Finance, Chicago, Illinois (United States) CESifo, München, Germany	118.26
111	James Alan Robinson University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	118.56
112	Michael Smart University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada CESifo, München, Germany	118.84
113	Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	119.80
114	Danny Yagan University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	120.15
115	Richard Anthony Kneller University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	122.45
116	Louis Kaplow National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	122.81
117	Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut, Freiburg, Germany	123.44
118	Jess Benhabib New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	124.14
119	Varadarajan Chari University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	125.18
120	Juan Carlos Conesa Stony Brook University - SUNY → Economics Department, Stony Brook, New York (United States)	128.30
121	Gaetan J.a. Nicodeme (Gaetan Nicodeme) European Commission → Directorate-General Taxation and Custom Union, Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium	128.70
122	Philippe Aghion London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	128.70
123	Mark Duggan Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	129.39
124	Juergen von Hagen	129.42
125	Aleh Tsyvinski	129.81
126	Alain Trannoy Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	129.99
127	Gerhard Glomm Indiana University → Department of Economics, Bloomington, Indiana (United States)	130.85
128	W. Adam Looney Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	131.14
129	Richard Evans Romano University of Florida → Warrington College of Business, Gainesville, Florida (United States)	131.28
130	Etienne Lehmann Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas → Département de Sciences Économiques et de Gestion → Centre de Recherche en Économie et Droit (CRED), Paris, France	131.48
131	Kai A. Konrad Max-Planck-Gesellschaft → Max-Planck-Institut für Steuerrecht und öffentliche Finanzen, München, Germany	132.43
132	Daniel Wilson Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States) Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)	133.70
133	Kory Kroft University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	134.20
134	Costas Meghir Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)	134.37
135	Mikhail Golosov University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	134.66
136	David Laibson Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	137.82
137	Iván Werning (Ivan Werning) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	138.82
138	Benjamin Olken Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	138.99
139	Bev Dahlby University of Calgary → School of Public Policy, Calgary, Canada	139.34
140	Hilary Williamson Hoynes University of California-Berkeley → Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, California (United States) University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	139.37
141	Ian Parry International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	141.09
142	Guttorm Schjelderup Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for foretaksøkonomi, Bergen, Norway	142.18
143	Axel Dreher Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg → Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften → Alfred-Weber-Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Heidelberg, Germany	143.41
144	Claus Thustrup Kreiner	145.11
145	Matthew C Weinzierl Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE) Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	145.30
146	Carlos Vegh Johns Hopkins University → School of Advanced International Studies → International Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	146.39
147	Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)	146.67
148	Ray Rees †	147.61
149	Luc Laeven European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	147.73
150	Austan Goolsbee National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) American Bar Foundation (ABF), Chicago, Illinois (United States) University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	148.62
151	Roland Benabou	149.33
152	Rosanne Altshuler Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)	149.45
153	Per Krusell Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden	151.76
154	Jeffrey Robert Brown University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → College of Business, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)	151.80
155	Benjamin B Lockwood University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Department of Business Economics and Public Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	153.07
156	Jean Hindriks Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium	154.31
157	Roel Maria Wilhelmus Jozef Beetsma Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands	154.73
158	Salvador Barrios European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain	154.77
159	Jordi Galí (Jordi Gali) Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain	155.03
160	Anwar Shah World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	155.25
161	Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States) Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	155.30
162	Wei Li Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Beijing, China	155.50
163	Francesco Giavazzi	158.78
164	Urs Fischbacher Universität Konstanz → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Konstanz, Germany	160.96
165	Richard Arnott †	161.68
166	Annette Alstadsæter (Annette Alstadsaeter) Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet → School of Economics and Business, Ås, Norway Paris School of Economics → Observatoire Européen de la Fiscalité, Paris, France	162.01
167	Antonio Afonso Universidade de Lisboa → Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) → Research in Economics and Mathematics (REM) → Unidade de Estudos sobre Complexidade e Economia (UECE), Lisboa, Portugal	163.87
168	Eric M. Leeper University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)	164.69
169	Olivia Mitchell National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Pension Research Council, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	166.45

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