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

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For Utility Models and Prospect Theory, these are 745 institutions and 937 authors.

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Top Institutions

Rank	Institution	Score	Authors	Author Shares
1	Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1	7	1.51
2	Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	2.53	5	1.30
3	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy	2.57	15	5.40
4	McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada	4.13	3	1.13
5	Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	4.94	19	5.04
6	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	5.88	25	0.74
7	University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	6.68	3	0.25
8	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland	8.89	10	2.68
9	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands	9.90	2	1.41
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	10.08	7	1.52
-	Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	10.39	8	2.30
10	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	11.24	2	0.48
-	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands	11.31	1	0.83
11	Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	12.03	5	2.29
12	Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	13.71	3	0.93
13	University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	13.77	5	0.47
14	Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	14.10	11	2.14
15	Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	15.54	5	1.80
16	California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences, Pasadena, California (United States)	16.00	3	0.64
17	Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	16.27	6	2.21
18	University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	16.79	4	0.62
19	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)	17.26	4	0.36
20	Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	18.15	2	0.55
-	Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	18.49	4	0.36
21	Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	18.70	6	2.70
22	New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	20.02	5	0.83
23	University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom	22.84	2	0.84
24	Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom	24.02	5	2.44
25	Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France	25.25	4	2.32
26	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom	27.10	3	1.68
-	University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	27.10	3	1.68
27	University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)	27.86	2	0.39
28	Georgia State University → Andrew Young School of Policy Studies → Department of Economics → Experimental Economics Center, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	28.41	5	1.10
29	Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	29.12	6	2.65
-	Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	31.31	1	0.28
30	Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	31.43	1	0.53
-	Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain	32.71	3	1.26
30	Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Alicante, Spain	32.71	3	1.26
32	University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	32.72	1	0.23
-	Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Scienze delle Decisioni, Milano, Italy	34.21	4	2.18
33	HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	34.27	5	1.69
34	National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore	34.55	4	2.85
35	Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	34.63	5	1.98
36	Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	34.71	4	1.14
37	University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	37.48	1	0.32
38	Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland	38.38	14	4.71
-	Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)	38.47	8	0.56
38	Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics, Orange, California (United States)	38.47	8	0.56
40	London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom	39.13	9	1.32
41	University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom	39.29	5	0.80
42	University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	41.39	1	0.17
43	Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)	43.53	3	0.15
44	Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium	43.58	4	1.03
45	Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	44.65	5	1.77
46	Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	45.26	1	0.05
47	Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	45.33	1	0.29
48	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	45.93	41	0.79
-	Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg	47.08	41	0.79
49	Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel	50.05	2	0.27
50	University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	51.30	3	1.64
51	University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	51.33	2	0.18
52	Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX), Paris, France	52.81	2	0.75
53	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	53.76	1	0.33
-	Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	53.76	1	0.33
54	KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium	55.50	6	1.05
-	KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium	55.50	6	1.05
55	Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France	56.49	13	3.25
56	Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France	56.50	9	3.41
-	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	56.69	3	0.92
56	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics, Canberra, Australia	56.69	3	0.92
58	Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	56.82	3	1.98
59	Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	57.06	1	0.07
60	Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	57.79	2	0.78
61	Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France	57.81	8	2.69
-	University of Nottingham → School of Economics → Centre for Decision Research and Experimental Economics (CeDEx), Nottingham, United Kingdom	61.53	4	0.43
62	California Institute of Technology → Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Pasadena, California (United States)	61.93	1	0.11
63	University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	62.46	2	0.66
64	Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain	63.41	4	1.42
65	Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy	63.79	1	0.08
66	Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands	63.82	3	2.58
67	Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord), Lille/Paris, France	64.45	2	0.48
-	Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France	64.45	2	0.48
-	California Institute of Technology → Division of Social Sciences → Laboratory for Experimental Economics and Political Science, Pasadena, California (United States)	64.98	1	0.11
68	Università degli Studi di Torino → Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy	65.18	5	1.00
69	Université de Lyon → Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Lyon, France	66.06	10	3.54
70	Danmarks Nationalbank, København, Denmark	68.05	1	0.42
71	Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics → Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis and Research Centre (SPEAR), Canberra, Australia	68.66	1	0.04
-	Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark	69.88	1	0.41
72	Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands	70.24	9	2.14
73	Leicester University → School of Business, Leicester, United Kingdom	70.51	6	2.81
74	University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	70.88	2	0.23

Top Authors

Rank	Author	Score
1	Robert J. Barro Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	1.81
2	Larry Epstein McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada	1.85
3	Peter P. Wakker Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen → Econometrisch Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands	4.73
4	Colin Farrell Camerer	9.59
5	Edi Karni Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)	10.04
6	Ernst Fehr Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland	10.40
7	James Andreoni University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)	11.23
8	Olivier Blanchard Paris School of Economics, Paris, France Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	11.49
9	Michael Woodford Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	11.58
10	Massimo 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	12.12
11	Herve Moulin University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School → Department of Economics, Glasgow, United Kingdom	12.27
12	Robert Sugden University of East Anglia → School of Economics, Norwich, United Kingdom	13.39
13	Lars Peter Hansen University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	13.87
14	Andrei Shleifer Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	14.10
15	Glenn W. Harrison Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business → Department of Risk Management and Insurance, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	14.57
16	Charles Manski Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States) Northwestern University → Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Evanston, Illinois (United States)	15.07
17	Jean-Michel Grandmont Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France	15.34
18	Uzi Segal Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	17.97
19	John List University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	18.95
20	Itzhak Gilboa Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France	19.08
21	Tim Bollerslev Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	20.55
22	Graciela Chichilnisky Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	23.57
23	Han Bleichrodt Universidad de Alicante → Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales → Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Alicante, Spain	23.94
24	Miles Spencer Kimball University of Colorado → Department of Economics, Boulder, Colorado (United States)	26.51
25	Ariel Rubinstein	27.59
26	Daniel L. McFadden University of Southern California → Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)	28.37
27	David Huffman Cornell University → Johnson Graduate School of Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)	29.34
28	David Schmeidler †	30.25
29	Louis Eeckhoudt Lille Économie et Management (LEM), Lille, France	31.42
30	Sujoy Mukerji Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom	32.74
31	Aldo Rustichini University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)	32.89
32	Joseph Stiglitz	33.93
33	Uri Gneezy University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Rady School of Management, La Jolla, California (United States)	34.69
34	Vernon L. Smith Chapman University → Argyros College of Business and Economics → Economic Science Institute (ESI), Orange, California (United States)	34.93
35	Tomasz Strzalecki Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	36.54
36	Armin Falk Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	37.48
37	Wing-Keung Wong Asia University → College of Management → Department of Finance, Wufeng, Taiwan	37.81
38	B. Douglas Bernheim Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)	39.39
39	Bernard Salanié (Bernard Salanie) Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	42.55
40	Thomas Dohmen Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany	43.11
41	Xavier Gabaix Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	43.68
42	John Hey University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom	44.29
43	Simon Grant Australian National University → College of Business and Economics → Research School of Economics, Canberra, Australia	44.53
44	Geert Bekaert Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	44.53
45	Federico Echenique University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	47.41
46	John K.-h. Quah National University of Singapore (NUS) → Department of Economics, Singapore, Singapore	47.53
47	Jean-Marc Tallon Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	47.97
48	Stefan Nagel University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	49.30
49	Christian Gollier Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France	50.60
50	Oded Stark Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland	52.03
51	Roland Benabou	54.96
52	Arthur Lewbel Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)	55.07
53	Charles 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)	55.57
54	Yoram Halevy University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada	55.80
55	Emmanuel Saez University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)	56.14
56	Werner B.f. Brouwer Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands	57.12
57	Ravi Bansal Duke University → Fuqua School of Business → Finance Area, Durham, North Carolina (United States)	60.09
58	Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	61.31
59	Fabio Maccheroni Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy	61.57
60	Sydney C. Ludvigson New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	62.07
61	David Laibson Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)	62.85
62	Marcos Escobar Anel	64.07
63	Jianjun Miao Zhejiang University → School of Economics, Hangzhou, China	64.42
64	Steffen Andersen Danmarks Nationalbank → Forskning, København, Denmark	64.88
65	Alain Jacques Chateauneuf Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la Gestion (IPAG), Paris, France Paris School of Economics, Paris, France	66.08
66	Andrew Postlewaite University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	66.11
67	Uwe Sunde Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany	66.28
68	Pietro Ortoleva Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)	68.82
69	Pierre Chiappori Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)	70.48
70	Harald Uhlig University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)	70.74
71	Raman Uppal Groupe EDHEC (École de Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord) → Département Comptabilité, Droit, Finance et Économie, Lille/Paris, France	70.81
72	André Jean-Louis de Palma (Andre de Palma) Université de Cergy-Pontoise → Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application (THEMA), Cergy-Pontoise, France	70.89
73	Ulrich Schmidt	71.03
74	Peter Hammond University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom	71.48
75	Luigi Guiso Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy	71.57
76	Elisabet Rutstrom Georgia State University → J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)	73.49
77	Daniel Friedman University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)	73.65
78	Mark Dean Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)	75.07
79	Andrew 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)	75.77
80	Ferdinand Vieider Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde → Vakgroep Economie, Gent, Belgium	77.60
81	Geoffrey Heal Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)	78.05
82	Francoise 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	79.62
83	Robin Cubitt	79.99
84	Paolo 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	81.79
85	Dirk Krueger University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)	81.86
86	Martin Browning Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	82.56
87	Paul Klemperer Oxford University → Department of Economics → Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom	82.66
88	Soren Johansen Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark	83.12
89	Jörg Stoye (Joerg Stoye) Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)	84.62
90	Christopher P. Chambers Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)	88.23
91	Emmanuel Farhi †	90.58
92	Yves Sprumont Deakin University → Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia	91.19
93	Heng-fu Zou Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) → China Economics and Management Academy, Beijing, China	91.51

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