Rankings.  Public Economics

 

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6. Subdiscipline Public Economics
JEL: D6-D7, H0-H4, H7, K0-K5

    Equiv Papers Internal Share Author Count
1 Harvard U USA 22.0 10.5 56
2 U Chicago USA 12.9 8.1 33
3 Princeton U USA 11.9 10.0 28
4 Northwestern U USA 10.7 9.5 29
5 U California - Berkeley USA 10.7 8.0 48
6 U Toulouse I (Sciences Sociales) France 10.4 15.9 19
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA 9.6 7.0 29
8 New York U (NYU) USA 9.1 8.6 26
9 U Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 9.0 13.2 24
10 U California - Irvine USA 8.6 36.5 12
11 Stanford U USA 8.3 7.3 43
12 Columbia U USA 8.3 8.9 28
13 U Pennsylvania USA 8.2 7.4 26
14 U Autonoma Barcelona Spain 7.5 33.2 16
15 London School of Economics (LSE) UK 6.9 7.3 20
16 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA 6.7 17.9 9
17 Yale U USA 6.7 6.1 25
18 U California - Los Angeles (UCLA) USA 6.2 6.5 23
19 U Rochester USA 6.2 10.7 14
20 Vanderbilt U USA 6.2 20.4 12
21 U British Columbia Canada 5.9 9.6 20
22 U Montreal Canada 5.6 20.4 4
23 U Wisconsin - Madison USA 5.6 8.0 17
24 U Amsterdam Netherlands 5.5 13.1 18
25 Tilburg U Netherlands 5.3 9.3 23
26 Warwick U UK 5.3 11.8 15
27 Cornell U USA 5.2 7.6 24
28 U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign USA 4.9 8.6 20
29 Stockholm U Sweden 4.6 15.7 11
30 George Mason U USA 4.6 39.2 17
31 Indian Statistical Institute - New Delhi India 4.6 28.6 7
32 U Toronto Canada 4.5 10.5 14
33 U Carlos III Madrid Spain 4.4 12.3 16
34 Carnegie Mellon U USA 4.2 11.0 13
35 Syracuse U USA 4.2 19.5 14
36 U Southern California USA 4.1 8.8 12
37 U Maryland - College Park USA 4.1 6.1 27
38 Rice U USA 4.0 16.9 6
39 Tel Aviv U Israel 4.0 8.4 20
40 Duke U USA 4.0 9.1 18
41 Boston College USA 3.8 10.1 11
42 U Bonn Germany 3.5 16.1 15
43 U Texas - Austin USA 3.5 5.6 15
44 Johns Hopkins U USA 3.4 10.2 5
45 Bar-Ilan U Israel 3.4 26.3 14
46 Texas A&M U USA 3.3 8.9 12
47 U Zurich Switzerland 3.1 18.0 9
48 U Cambridge UK 3.0 7.9 10
49 Georgetown U USA 3.0 9.9 9
50 College of William & Mary USA 3.0 32.1 7
51 Georgia State U USA 3.0 24.8 14
52 Indiana U USA 3.0 8.7 15
53 U Florida USA 2.9 12.5 9
54 U Caen France 2.9 71.1 4
55 U Cergy-Pontoise France 2.8 25.6 7
56 Catholic U Louvain Belgium 2.8 11.7 9
57 U Bocconi Italy 2.8 16.6 3
58 U California - Santa Barbara USA 2.8 13.6 10
59 Boston U USA 2.8 4.9 9
60 U California - San Diego USA 2.8 4.5 10
61 U York UK 2.7 10.0 11
62 Southern Methodist U USA 2.6 14.7 11
63 Penn State U USA 2.6 6.2 15
64 U Alicante Spain 2.6 21.9 8
65 Ben-Gurion U Israel 2.5 21.2 12
66 Queen's U Canada 2.5 8.9 8
67 Virginia Tech USA 2.5 14.0 12
68 Erasmus U Rotterdam Netherlands 2.5 10.2 10
69 U Georgia USA 2.4 17.3 12
70 Brown U USA 2.4 4.6 10
71 Dartmouth College USA 2.4 8.1 9
72 Rutgers U USA 2.3 7.4 14
73 U North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA 2.3 6.1 13
74 U Minnesota USA 2.3 4.6 14
75 U California - Davis USA 2.3 4.6 14
76 U Nottingham UK 2.2 8.7 10
77 U Notre Dame Namur (FUNDP) Belgium 2.2 27.7 8
78 Uppsala U Sweden 2.2 19.8 8
79 EHESS - Paris France 2.2 24.9 3
80 U Copenhagen Denmark 2.2 9.0 12
81 Arizona State U USA 2.1 7.1 9
82 Washington U St Louis USA 2.1 7.4 12
83 U Oslo Norway 2.0 12.2 8
84 U Arizona USA 2.0 6.9 10
85 Ecole National Ponts & Chaussees France 2.0 11.6 3
86 U Virginia USA 2.0 6.4 9
87 U Oklahoma USA 2.0 24.2 8
88 U Alabama - Tuscaloosa USA 1.9 27.6 5
89 U St Gallen Switzerland 1.9 29.3 4
90 U Leicester UK 1.9 13.7 4
91 U Bordeaux IV (Montesquieu) France 1.9 57.5 1
92 U Vienna Austria 1.9 11.1 6
93 Hitotsubashi U Japan 1.9 22.3 4
94 Florida State U USA 1.8 19.3 7
95 Tohoku U Japan 1.8 48.9 2
96 Free U Berlin (Freie U) Germany 1.8 19.9 3
97 U Colorado - Boulder USA 1.7 8.9 11
98 Maastricht U Netherlands 1.7 8.7 6
99 Copenhagen Business School  Denmark 1.7 26.0 4
100 Hebrew U Israel 1.7 5.0 13
101 Royal Holloway College UK 1.7 16.6 5
102 U Delaware USA 1.7 22.5 8
103 U Pompeu Fabra Spain 1.6 6.1 7
104 Academia Sinica Taiwan 1.6 12.4 8
105 U Mannheim Germany 1.6 9.1 6
106 European U Institute Italy 1.6 4.4 4
107 U Birmingham UK 1.6 17.2 5
108 Australian National U Australia 1.5 7.5 7
109 Claremont U USA 1.5 18.1 6
110 U Melbourne Australia 1.5 7.6 15
111 Chinese U Hong Kong China 1.5 7.4 12
112 U Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-U) Germany 1.5 10.9 7
113 U Kentucky USA 1.5 9.7 7
114 Montana State U USA 1.5 16.6 7
115 Stockholm School of Economics Sweden 1.4 5.9 9
116 U Laval Canada 1.4 11.6 5
117 U Mississippi USA 1.4 14.1 5
118 Michigan State U USA 1.4 3.1 10
119 U Tokyo Japan 1.4 12.2 7
120 U Aix-Marseille II (Mediterranee) France 1.4 14.9 6
121 U Groningen Netherlands 1.4 13.6 8
122 Mexican Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM)  Mexico 1.4 16.7 3
123 U Iowa USA 1.4 5.6 8
124 U Osnabrueck Germany 1.3 41.6 4
125 U Colorado - Denver USA 1.3 17.4 5
126 Tufts U USA 1.3 10.9 6
127 U Illinois - Chicago USA 1.3 9.8 9
128 Oxford U UK 1.3 2.8 10
129 Birkbeck College UK 1.3 8.9 3
130 Ecole Polytechnique France 1.3 11.7 2
131 U New South Wales Australia 1.3 10.0 7
132 Simon Fraser U Canada 1.3 9.3 9
133 George Washington U USA 1.3 8.6 9
134 McMaster U Canada 1.3 12.9 8
135 U Haifa Israel 1.3 18.2 4
136 U Western Ontario Canada 1.3 7.6 4
137 York U Toronto Canada 1.3 9.5 8
138 Humboldt U Berlin Germany 1.2 6.7 14
139 Purdue U USA 1.2 4.7 8
140 HEC Paris France 1.2 19.7 2
141 U Pau France 1.2 69.6 1
142 U Washington USA 1.2 4.1 6
143 KU Leuven Belgium 1.2 10.2 7
144 U Cologne Germany 1.1 28.5 3
145 Free U Brussels (U Libre) Belgium 1.1 9.9 5
146 U Wyoming USA 1.1 9.8 6
147 U Bologna Italy 1.1 16.0 5
148 U Maryland - Baltimore USA 1.1 26.5 4
149 U Durham UK 1.1 23.5 4
150 West Virginia U USA 1.1 20.4 4
151 U Oregon USA 1.1 8.0 7
152 Emory U USA 1.1 8.3 7
153 Indiana-Purdue University (IUPUI) USA 1.1 11.8 5
154 Ecole Normale Superieure Paris France 1.0 12.0 4
155 Norwegian School of Economics & Business Norway 1.0 9.9 6
156 U Essex UK 1.0 2.8 7
157 U Manchester UK 1.0 6.7 9

 

6.1. Social Choice Theory / Allocative Efficiency / Public Goods
JEL: D60-D64, D69, D70-D71, H00, H40-H43, H49

    Equiv Papers Internal Share Author Count
1 U Autonoma Barcelona Spain 5.7 25.3 12
2 U Montreal Canada 5.3 19.4 3
3 Harvard U USA 4.1 2.0 22
4 New York U (NYU) USA 4.1 3.9 11
5 U Rochester USA 3.9 6.7 7
6 Vanderbilt U USA 3.7 12.1 5
7 U British Columbia Canada 3.6 5.9 11
8 U California - Berkeley USA 3.6 2.7 19
9 Indian Statistical Institute - New Delhi India 3.6 22.5 5
10 U California - Irvine USA 3.5 14.7 5
11 Columbia U USA 3.4 3.7 11
12 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA 3.3 9.0 8
13 Northwestern U USA 3.2 2.8 19
14 U Carlos III Madrid Spain 3.0 8.3 9
15 U Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 2.8 4.2 9
16 Stanford U USA 2.8 2.5 14
17 U Chicago USA 2.8 1.8 12
18 Rice U USA 2.7 11.5 2
19 U Wisconsin - Madison USA 2.6 3.7 7
20 Syracuse U USA 2.6 12.0 6
21 U Pennsylvania USA 2.5 2.3 12
22 U Toulouse I (Sciences Sociales) France 2.5 3.9 11
23 U California - Los Angeles (UCLA) USA 2.4 2.5 9
24 College of William & Mary USA 2.4 25.1 1
25 U Amsterdam Netherlands 2.4 5.6 7
26 Texas A&M U USA 2.3 6.3 7
27 Warwick U UK 2.3 5.2 10
28 U Cergy-Pontoise France 2.3 20.7 7
29 U Bonn Germany 2.3 10.5 11
30 Princeton U USA 2.1 1.8 11
31 Cornell U USA 2.0 2.9 13
32 Bar-Ilan U Israel 1.9 14.9 11
33 Tel Aviv U Israel 1.9 4.0 13
34 Boston College USA 1.9 5.0 7
35 U Alicante Spain 1.8 15.3 7
36 U Zurich Switzerland 1.8 10.5 6
37 U Maryland - College Park USA 1.8 2.6 10
38 Tohoku U Japan 1.8 48.9 2
39 U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign USA 1.7 3.1 9
40 Ben-Gurion U Israel 1.7 13.9 9
41 Hitotsubashi U Japan 1.6 19.1 4
42 U Notre Dame Namur (FUNDP) Belgium 1.6 20.0 6
43 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA 1.6 1.2 10
44 U California - Davis USA 1.6 3.1 5
45 U Cambridge UK 1.6 4.0 4
46 Penn State U USA 1.5 3.7 7
47 Indiana U USA 1.5 4.4 8
48 U California - Santa Barbara USA 1.5 7.3 4
49 Brown U USA 1.5 2.8 8
50 Johns Hopkins U USA 1.5 4.4 4
51 Carnegie Mellon U USA 1.4 3.8 7
52 London School of Economics (LSE) UK 1.4 1.5 7
53 U Caen France 1.4 34.0 4
54 Maastricht U Netherlands 1.4 7.0 2
55 Virginia Tech USA 1.3 7.6 10
56 Catholic U Louvain Belgium 1.3 5.6 7
57 Southern Methodist U USA 1.3 7.3 6
58 Duke U USA 1.3 2.9 12
59 Georgia State U USA 1.3 10.6 8
60 U Nottingham UK 1.3 4.9 3
61 Hebrew U Israel 1.2 3.6 8
62 U Birmingham UK 1.2 13.3 4
63 Yale U USA 1.2 1.1 8
64 U Pau France 1.2 69.6 1
65 U Minnesota USA 1.2 2.5 8
66 U Colorado - Denver USA 1.2 15.3 5
67 U Oslo Norway 1.2 7.0 3
68 Georgetown U USA 1.1 3.7 3
69 Tilburg U Netherlands 1.1 2.0 8
70 U Florida USA 1.1 4.7 4
71 Ecole National Ponts & Chaussees France 1.1 6.4 2
72 U York UK 1.1 4.0 7
73 U Bocconi Italy 1.1 6.3 3
74 U Texas - Austin USA 1.0 1.7 4
75 Arizona State U USA 1.0 3.5 5
76 U Tokyo Japan 1.0 8.8 5
77 Queen's U Canada 1.0 3.5 5
78 U Toronto Canada 1.0 2.3 4
79 Birkbeck College UK 1.0 6.6 2
80 U Osnabrueck Germany 1.0 29.6 4

 

6.2. Political Economy
JEL: D72-D74, D78-D79, H10-H11, H19

    Equiv Papers Internal Share Author Count
1 Princeton U USA 7.1 6.0 14
2 Harvard U USA 6.0 2.9 26
3 Northwestern U USA 5.8 5.2 10
4 U California - Irvine USA 4.7 20.1 8
5 U Toulouse I (Sciences Sociales) France 4.7 7.1 12
6 U Chicago USA 4.3 2.7 14
7 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA 4.1 3.0 12
8 George Mason U USA 3.6 31.1 14
9 London School of Economics (LSE) UK 3.5 3.7 7
10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA 3.3 8.8 7
11 U California - Berkeley USA 3.2 2.4 19
12 New York U (NYU) USA 2.9 2.7 14
13 Stockholm U Sweden 2.8 9.6 6
14 Yale U USA 2.8 2.5 12
15 U Pennsylvania USA 2.7 2.4 7
16 U Southern California USA 2.7 5.7 7
17 Columbia U USA 2.5 2.7 14
18 U Amsterdam Netherlands 2.0 4.7 9
19 U California - Los Angeles (UCLA) USA 1.9 2.0 6
20 Johns Hopkins U USA 1.8 5.5 3
21 Stanford U USA 1.7 1.5 15
22 Erasmus U Rotterdam Netherlands 1.7 7.0 6
23 Carnegie Mellon U USA 1.5 4.0 6
24 U Oklahoma USA 1.5 18.9 4
25 U Toronto Canada 1.5 3.6 4
26 U Caen France 1.5 37.1 4
27 U Bocconi Italy 1.4 8.4 1
28 Bar-Ilan U Israel 1.4 10.7 9
29 U Delaware USA 1.4 18.6 5
30 U North Carolina - Chapel Hill USA 1.3 3.6 6
31 Tel Aviv U Israel 1.3 2.7 10
32 U Florida USA 1.3 5.5 3
33 Cornell U USA 1.3 1.9 2
34 EHESS - Paris France 1.2 13.7 2
35 U Carlos III Madrid Spain 1.1 3.0 8
36 U Maryland - Baltimore USA 1.0 24.6 3
37 Claremont U USA 1.0 12.1 3
38 Boston College USA 1.0 2.7 3
39 U Rochester USA 1.0 1.7 7
40 Duke U USA 1.0 2.2 4
41 U Copenhagen Denmark 1.0 4.0 3

 

6.3 Theory of Taxation
JEL: H20-H26, H29, H30-H32, H39

    Equiv Papers Internal Share Author Count
1 Harvard U USA 5.0 2.4 22
2 U Michigan - Ann Arbor USA 4.9 7.2 8
3 Tilburg U Netherlands 3.5 6.1 13
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA 3.1 2.3 14
5 U Toulouse I (Sciences Sociales) France 2.8 4.3 9
6 U Illinois - Urbana-Champaign USA 2.4 4.3 8
7 Warwick U UK 2.3 5.0 8
8 U California - Berkeley USA 2.1 1.5 11
9 New York U (NYU) USA 1.7 1.6 8
10 U Toronto Canada 1.6 3.8 6
11 Yale U USA 1.6 1.5 6
12 Princeton U USA 1.5 1.3 8
13 U Maryland - College Park USA 1.5 2.2 11
14 London School of Economics (LSE) UK 1.5 1.6 7
15 Uppsala U Sweden 1.5 13.2 6
16 Columbia U USA 1.4 1.5 6
17 Syracuse U USA 1.4 6.7 7
18 Duke U USA 1.4 3.2 7
19 Cornell U USA 1.4 2.0 12
20 Stanford U USA 1.3 1.2 10
21 Dartmouth College USA 1.2 4.1 7
22 U Chicago USA 1.2 0.8 5
23 Georgia State U USA 1.2 9.9 7
24 U Bordeaux IV (Montesquieu) France 1.2 35.9 1
25 U British Columbia Canada 1.2 1.9 7
26 Copenhagen Business School  Denmark 1.2 17.6 2
27 Stockholm U Sweden 1.1 3.8 7
28 Queen's U Canada 1.1 3.9 4
29 U Amsterdam Netherlands 1.1 2.6 9
30 U Rochester USA 1.1 1.8 4
31 U Georgia USA 1.1 7.5 3
32 U York UK 1.1 3.9 3
33 U Colorado - Boulder USA 1.0 5.2 7
34 Tufts U USA 1.0 8.2 2
35 U Wisconsin - Madison USA 1.0 1.4 5
36 U Laval Canada 1.0 8.1 4
37 Georgetown U USA 1.0 3.2 3
38 Rice U USA 1.0 4.1 4
39 U St Gallen Switzerland 1.0 14.8 3

 

6.4 Law & Economics
JEL: K00, K10-K14, K19, K20-K23, K29, K30-K34, K39, K40-K42, K49

    Equiv Papers Internal Share Author Count
1 Harvard U USA 6.9 3.3 20
2 U Chicago USA 4.6 2.9 13
3 Stanford U USA 2.4 2.1 14
4 Vanderbilt U USA 2.4 7.7 5
5 U Pennsylvania USA 2.2 2.0 12
6 U California - Berkeley USA 1.8 1.3 19
7 U California - Los Angeles (UCLA) USA 1.2 1.3 7
8 U Arizona USA 1.2 4.1 6
9 U Wisconsin - Madison USA 1.1 1.6 6
10 Yale U USA 1.1 1.0 6
11 Princeton U USA 1.1 0.9 8
12 Northwestern U USA 1.0 0.9 5

 

JEL Descriptors:

6.1 D60 - Welfare Economics -- D61 - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis -- D62 - Externalities -- D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement -- D64 - Altruism -- D69 - Other -- D70 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making -- D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees -- D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking,Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior -- D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations -- D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances -- D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation -- D79 - Other -- H00 - Public Economics: General -- H40 - Publicly Provided Goods -- H41 - Public Goods -- H42 - Publicly Provided Private Goods -- H43 - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate -- H49 - Other

6.2 D72 - Economic Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking,Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior -- D73 - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations -- D74 - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances -- D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy-Making and Implementation -- D79 - Other -- H10 - Structure and Scope of Government -- H11 - Structure and Scope of Government -- H19 - Other

6.3 H20 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue -- H21 - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation -- H22 - Incidence -- H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies -- H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies -- H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies -- H26 - Tax Evasion -- H29 - Other -- H30 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents -- H31 - Household -- H32 - Firm -- H39 - Other

6.4 K00 - Law and Economics: General -- K10 - Basic Areas of Law K11 - Property Law -- K12 - Contract Law -- K13 - Tort Law and Product Liability -- K14 - Criminal Law -- K19 - Other -- K20 - Regulation and Business Law -- K21 - Antitrust Law -- K22 - Corporation and Securities Law -- K23 - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law -- K29 - Other -- K30 - Other Substantive Areas of Law -- K31 - Labor Law -- K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law -- K33 - International Law -- K34 - Tax Law -- K39 - Other -- K40 - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior -- K41 - Litigation Process -- K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law -- K49 - Other