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Top Institutions and Economists in the Field of Utility Models and Prospect Theory, as of August 2026

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Top Institutions

Rank Institution Score Authors Author
Shares
1Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)171.58
2Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)2.3051.33
3Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy2.85134.69
4McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada4.1731.13
5Paris School of Economics, Paris, France4.94195.05
6National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)5.98230.73
7University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)6.6830.25
8Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland8.85102.68
9Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands9.8321.40
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy10.2671.52
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland10.3982.30
-Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands11.1310.83
10University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)11.3120.48
11Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.6752.26
12Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France12.79112.14
13Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)13.7130.93
14University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.1550.46
15California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)15.1730.64
16Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany15.2951.80
17University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)16.4040.62
18Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom16.6562.21
19Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.9240.38
20Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)18.1620.55
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)18.3840.37
21Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)19.0662.70
22New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)20.1150.83
23Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → Experimental Economics Center, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)22.4261.24
24University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom23.6120.84
25Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom24.1152.42
26Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France26.0442.14
-University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom28.0131.60
26University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom28.0131.60
28University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)28.2920.39
29Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)29.6562.65
30Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)31.3610.53
-Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)31.4910.28
-Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain31.7131.26
30Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Alicante, Spain31.7131.26
32University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)32.9910.23
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Scienze delle Decisioni, Milano, Italy34.0142.18
33HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France34.3351.69
34Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)34.8541.14
35Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France35.2651.98
36National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore37.1842.63
37University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)37.8410.32
-Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)38.3080.55
37Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States)38.3080.55
39Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland38.63144.12
40London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom39.61112.33
41University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom39.6650.80
42University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)41.2910.17
43Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)43.5620.15
44Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark44.0451.78
45Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium44.2341.04
46Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)45.1410.28
47Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg45.76410.79
48Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)46.0710.05
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg46.88410.79
49Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel50.1220.27
50University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom51.0831.64
-Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)52.8710.33
50Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)52.8710.33
-KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium53.2161.07
50KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium53.2161.07
53University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)53.2720.17
54Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), Paris, France53.4820.75
55Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)56.4731.98
-Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia56.4930.97
55Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia56.4930.97
57Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France56.9793.42
58Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)57.3310.07
59Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France57.45133.22
60Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)57.6420.78
61Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France59.0182.67
62California Institute of Technology → Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Pasadena, California (United States)61.4610.11
63University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada61.6920.66
-Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France62.4920.48
63Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France62.4920.48
-University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom62.5040.43
65Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands63.1831.61
-California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences → Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science, Pasadena, California (United States)63.6310.11
66Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain63.7641.42
67Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France64.15113.70
68Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy64.2410.07
69Università degli Studi di Torino → Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy64.8951.00
70Danmarks Nationalbank, København, Denmark66.7910.42
71Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia66.8010.04
72Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom67.8562.83
-Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark69.2210.41
73Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands69.8150.75
74Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands70.4392.11
-Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium70.4330.90
75University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom70.5341.28

Top Authors

Rank Author Score
1Robert J. Barro
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
1.82
2Larry Epstein
McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada
1.94
3Peter P. Wakker
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
4.65
4Edi Karni
Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
8.82
5Colin Farrell Camerer9.48
6Ernst Fehr
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
10.55
7James Andreoni
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)
11.28
8Michael Woodford
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
11.40
9Massimo Marinacci
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Scienze delle Decisioni, Milano, Italy
11.82
10Herve Moulin
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom
12.23
11Olivier Blanchard
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
12.30
12Robert Sugden
University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom
13.48
13Andrei Shleifer
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
14.27
14Lars Peter Hansen
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
14.39
15Glenn W. Harrison
Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
14.65
16Charles Manski
Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)
14.93
17Jean-Michel Grandmont
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
16.70
18Uzi Segal
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
18.31
19John List
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
18.76
20Itzhak Gilboa
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France
19.51
21Tim Bollerslev
Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
19.86
22Han Bleichrodt
Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain
23.55
23Graciela Chichilnisky
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
23.87
24Tomasz Strzalecki
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
25.52
25Ariel Rubinstein27.81
26Miles Spencer Kimball
University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)
28.24
27Daniel L. McFadden
University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
28.46
28David Huffman
Cornell University → SC Johnson College of Business, Ithaca, New York (United States)
28.71
29David Schmeidler †30.55
30Aldo Rustichini
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
32.54
31Sujoy Mukerji
Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom
32.74
32Louis Eeckhoudt
Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France
33.17
33Uri Gneezy
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
34.32
34Wing-Keung Wong
Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan
34.99
35Joseph Stiglitz35.05
36Vernon L. Smith
Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)
35.77
37Bernard Salanié (Bernard Salanie)
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
37.80
38Armin Falk
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
37.86
39B. Douglas Bernheim
Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)
39.47
40Thomas Dohmen
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
42.75
41Xavier Gabaix
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
43.06
42John K.-h. Quah
National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore
45.06
43John Hey
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
45.45
44Simon Grant
Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia
46.16
45Christian Gollier
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France
46.36
46Geert Bekaert
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
46.37
47Jean-Marc Tallon
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
49.24
48Federico Echenique
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
49.35
49Oded Stark
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
49.97
50Stefan Nagel
University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
51.51
51Charles David Sprenger
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)
54.06
52Roland Benabou54.58
53Arthur Lewbel
Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)
55.30
54Werner B.f. Brouwer
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands
55.63
55Emmanuel Saez
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
55.88
56Yoram Halevy
University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada
57.35
57Ravi Bansal
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
59.37
58Fabio Maccheroni
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
60.83
59Sydney C. Ludvigson
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
62.01
60Marc Fleurbaey
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
62.54
61Steffen Andersen
Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark
64.96
62Uwe Sunde
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
66.62
63David Laibson
Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
66.94
64Jianjun Miao
Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China
67.01
65Marcos Escobar Anel67.32
66Alain Jacques Chateauneuf
Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la Gestion (IPAG), Paris, France
Paris School of Economics, Paris, France
67.83
67Andrew Postlewaite
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
67.85
68Geoffrey Heal
Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
69.62
69Pietro Ortoleva
Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)
70.02
70Peter Hammond
University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom
70.06
71Pierre Chiappori
Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
70.49
72Luigi Guiso
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
71.12
73Raman Uppal
Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France
71.19
74Harald Uhlig
University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
72.49
75André Jean-Louis de Palma (Andre de Palma)
Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France
72.98
76Mark Dean
Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)
73.51
77Ulrich Schmidt74.25
78Daniel Friedman
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)
75.32
79Elisabet Rutstrom
Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
75.71
80Ferdinand Vieider
Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Vakgroep Economie, Gent, Belgium
76.59
81Andrew Caplin
New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
76.68
82Francoise Forges
Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) → Centre de Recherches en Mathématiques de la Décision (CEREMADE), Paris, France
Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) → Laboratoire d'Économie de Dauphine (LEDa), Paris, France
80.02
83Robin Cubitt81.16
84Paul Klemperer
Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
81.88
85Dirk Krueger
University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
82.72
86Paolo Ghirardato
Università degli Studi di Torino → Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy
Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche, Torino, Italy
83.12
87Jörg Stoye (Joerg Stoye)
Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)
83.13
88Heng-fu Zou
Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China
83.77
89Martin Browning
Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom
83.77
90Soren Johansen
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
84.25
91Christopher P. Chambers
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
87.69
92Massimo Guidolin
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
89.96
93Yves Sprumont
Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
92.06
94Emmanuel Farhi †92.37
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