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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Risk Management, as of April 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.48331.18
2Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)1.8340.45
3New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)2.5361.04
4Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)4.5820.57
5Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)4.8662.52
6European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany4.983110.98
-New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)7.5740.31
7Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business, Columbus, Ohio (United States)7.6620.23
8University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.8220.26
9Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland10.3091.93
10Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)10.4350.52
11University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)10.6940.42
12Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)11.0430.62
13London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom12.2261.01
14Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)12.5240.71
-Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)12.7310.16
15Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)13.81112.74
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)15.2040.44
16Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)15.6750.95
17Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France17.4461.44
-New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Volatility Institute, New York City, New York (United States)17.4810.13
18Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)18.0640.19
19London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom19.1481.90
20Copenhagen Business School, København, Denmark21.0530.31
21Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France21.1461.92
22Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom21.40380.99
-Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark22.6420.28
23Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland23.47131.34
24Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia24.1471.73
25Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)26.0320.27
-Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)26.0320.27
26World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)26.4071.85
27University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)28.0030.52
28Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)28.8940.28
29Banco de España, Madrid, Spain29.49124.02
30Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands29.7340.87
31Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)30.65103.33
32University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)30.6640.57
-University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)34.3930.34
33University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada34.8910.29
34Bank of England, London, United Kingdom34.92229.94
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Banking and Finance, Caulfield, Australia36.0510.36
35Lebanese American University → Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon36.8210.52
36International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)37.0461.65
37Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)37.8530.76
38Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland38.2272.56
39Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain38.7320.57
-Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)38.8630.76
40HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada40.0430.79
41Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy40.2871.82
42University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom40.7030.26
43University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Kenan Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)42.8620.41
-Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)43.8630.28
44City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)45.0810.50
45University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)45.2320.39
-University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)45.2320.39
46Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark46.0382.00
47Chinese Academy of Sciences → Institutes of Science and Development, Beijing, China46.8710.44
-Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland49.4341.30
48Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada50.8810.46
49Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)51.3910.62
50Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)51.4230.17
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom51.9020.74
51Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands52.1731.43
52HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France52.1820.65
53Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland52.2310.26
54Banque de France, Paris, France52.42123.90
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)52.5161.21
55Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy53.90188.10
56Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)54.0510.15
57Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy55.7740.12
58New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)55.8410.11
-London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom56.8220.15
59University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences, Pretoria, South Africa58.0410.14
60Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands58.7171.11
-University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa59.2210.14
61Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)59.3751.11
62KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium61.7962.05
63Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion, Orléans, France63.3321.59
-Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France63.3321.59
64European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy63.5010.08
65University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)64.1410.04
66Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Roma, Italy67.9651.07
67Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands68.1952.68
68Tsinghua University → PBC School of Finance, Beijing, China68.7210.35
69Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium69.3042.08
70Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland71.2550.72
71Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)71.7920.05
72University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)72.4231.10
73Centro Studi di Economia e Finanza (CSEF), Napoli, Italy73.0130.27
74Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany73.1760.84
75University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)74.5720.14
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Banking und Finance (Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen), Zürich, Switzerland74.8540.47
76Università Ca' Foscari Venezia → Dipartimento di Economia, Venezia, Italy75.0950.88

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Robert F. Engle1.41
2John Y. Campbell
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
2.90
3Tim Bollerslev
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
3.84
4Robert J. Barro
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
6.13
5Stephen J. Brown
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
6.16
6Francis Diebold
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
6.89
7René M. Stulz (Rene M. Stulz)
Ohio State University → Fisher College of Business → Department of Finance, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
7.43
8Lasse Heje Pedersen
Copenhagen Business School → Institut for Finansiering, København, Denmark
10.30
9Viral V. Acharya
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom
13.66
10Campbell Harvey
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
13.70
11William Goetzmann
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
16.64
12Rangan Gupta
University of Pretoria → Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences → Department of Economics, Pretoria, South Africa
16.65
13Hyun Song Shin
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland
19.09
14Elie I. Bouri
Lebanese American University → Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon
19.21
15Torben G. Andersen
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
20.34
16Robert J. Shiller21.09
17Georges Dionne
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada
21.84
18Christian S. Gourieroux
University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada
22.00
19Brian M. Lucey
Trinity College Dublin → School of Business, Dublin, Ireland
22.88
20Peter P. Carr23.99
21Geert Bekaert
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
24.36
22Darrell Duffie
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
24.83
23Andrew W. Lo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
25.33
24Ross Levine
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
26.35
25Anat Admati
Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)
26.94
26Peter F. Christoffersen28.27
27Qiang Ji
Chinese Academy of Sciences → Institutes of Science and Development, Beijing, China
28.48
28Michael McAleer28.99
29Stefano Giglio
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
29.65
30John Cummins
Temple University → Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
32.95
31Carmen Reinhart
Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
34.10
32Asli Demirguc-Kunt
World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
34.29
33Christophe Hurlin
Université d'Orléans → Faculté de droit, d'économie et de gestion → Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orléans (LEO), Orléans, France
34.58
34Til Schuermann34.68
35Anil Kashyap
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
37.39
36Andrew Patton
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
39.92
37W Kip Viscusi
Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)
40.23
38Steven Ongena
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Banking und Finance (Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen), Zürich, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
41.83
39Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
42.13
40Liuren Wu
City University of New York (CUNY) → Baruch College → Zicklin School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
43.16
41Jon Danielsson
London School of Economics (LSE) → Financial Markets Group (FMG), London, United Kingdom
43.84
42Jean Charles Rochet
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
45.38
43René Garcia (Rene Garcia)
Université de Montréal → Département de Sciences Économiques, Montréal, Canada
47.81
44Christian Lundblad
University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Kenan Flagler Business School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
48.18
45Kevin Stiroh
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)
48.29
46Suleyman Basak
London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom
48.64
47Francis A. Longstaff
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management → Finance Group, Los Angeles, California (United States)
49.14
48Alain Monfort
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
49.99
49K. Geert Rouwenhorst
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
50.00
50Tobias Adrian
International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
53.33
51Markus K. Brunnermeier
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
54.16
52Wolfgang Karl Härdle (Wolfgang Karl Haerdle)
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Berlin, Germany
Humboldt-Universität Berlin → Center for Applied Statistics and Econometrics (CASE), Berlin, Germany
55.12
53Andrew Ang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
56.02
54Andre Lucas
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
57.22
55Steven Davis
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
59.17
56Iftekhar Hasan
Fordham University → Gabelli School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)
Suomen Pankki, Helsinki, Finland
59.31
57Scott R. Baker
University of Wisconsin-Madison → School of Business → Department of Finance, Investment and Banking, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)
59.75
58Lubos Pastor
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
61.76
59Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
61.98
60Simon Gilchrist
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
62.88
61Takatoshi Ito63.08
62Josef Zechner
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria
63.63
63Mohammad Hashem Pesaran
University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
64.60
64Massimo Guidolin
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
64.78
65Stefan Nagel
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
66.45
66Javier Suárez (Javier Suarez)
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
68.28
67Peter Hansen
University of North Carolina-Chapel-Hill → Department of Economics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (United States)
69.52
68Michel Dacorogna73.45
69Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
73.46
70Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
73.46
71Oliver Bruce Linton
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
74.03
72Thorsten Beck
European University Institute → Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), Firenze, Italy
74.46
73Gary Gorton
Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
76.44
74John Cotter76.92
75Martin Eling
Universität St. Gallen → School of Finance → Institut für Versicherungswirtschaft, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
77.47
76Patrick Bolton
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
78.02
77Jianqing Fan
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
78.25
78Yacine Ait-Sahalia
Princeton University → Department of Economics → Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
79.48
79Amit Goyal
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
80.39
80Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
80.83
81Siem Jan Koopman
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics → Afdeling Econometrie and Operations Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
81.08
82Helene Rey
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
84.48
83Söhnke M. Bartram (Sohnke M. Bartram)
University of Warwick → Warwick Business School → Finance Group, Coventry, United Kingdom
84.98
84Michael Gordy
Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
86.44
85Duc Khuong Nguyen
University of Cambridge → Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, United Kingdom
86.80
86Christian Pierdzioch
Helmut Schmidt Universität Hamburg → Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre, Hamburg, Germany
87.78
87Mamdouh Abdulaziz Saleh Al-Faryan
University of Portsmouth → Portsmouth Business School → Economics and Finance Group, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
88.57
88Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
88.66
89Hao Zhou
Tsinghua University → PBC School of Finance, Beijing, China
89.97
90Kevin Dowd
Cato Institute, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
89.99
91Sweder van Wijnbergen (Sweder Wijnbergen)
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
90.80
92Neil Shephard
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
91.98
93Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
92.02
94Hui Chen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
94.23
95Michael Rockinger
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Institut de Banque et Finance (IBF), Lausanne, Switzerland
Swiss Finance Institute, Genève/Zürich, Switzerland
94.56
96Nicholas Bloom
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
97.64
97Eric Michel Renault97.66
98Riza Demirer
Southern Illinois University → Department of Economics and Finance, Edwardsville, Illinois (United States)
97.68
99Afees Adebare Salisu
Centre for Econometrics and Applied Research, Ibadan, Nigeria
98.60
100Mark Wohar
University of Nebraska-Omaha → Department of Economics, Omaha, Nebraska (United States)
98.77
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