OVERALL RANKING OF ECONOMISTS (TOP 500) 1984-1988

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Note that to compute the rankings I used the same weights I used to compute the 1994-1998 rankings (This implies that it doesn't take into account that the quality of journals might change over time).
Rank Name Average Rank
1 Stiglitz,-Joseph-E. 2.90909
2 Summers,-Lawrence-H. 3.09091
3 Mankiw,-N.-Gregory 9.90909
4 Tirole,-Jean 12.6364
5 Svensson,-Lars-E.-O. 13.5455
6 Phillips,-Peter-C.-B. 16.3636
7 Laffont,-Jean-Jacques 24.3636
8 West,-Kenneth-D. 29.5455
9 Feldstein,-Martin 30.5455
10 Blinder,-Alan-S. 32.4545
11 Judd,-Kenneth-L. 35.0909
12 Abel,-Andrew-B. 36.4545
13 Moulin,-Herve 37.3636
14 Blanchard,-Olivier-Jean 41.8182
15 Campbell,-John-Y. 44.8182
16 Fischer,-Stanley 47.9091
17 Roth,-Alvin-E. 49.0909
18 Shapiro,-Carl 49.3636
19 Poterba,-James-M. 49.6364
20 Barro,-Robert-J. 59.7273
21 Helpman,-Elhanan 66.1818
22 McCallum,-Bennett-T. 66.7273
23 Grossman,-Gene-M. 67
24 Viscusi,-W.-Kip 67.0909
25 Calvo,-Guillermo-A. 72.0909
26 Varian,-Hal-R. 73.0909
27 Evans,-Paul 73.5455
28 Obstfeld,-Maurice 75.2727
29 Baumol,-William-J. 77.4545
30 Ross,-Stephen-A. 77.6364
31 Rosenzweig,-Mark-R. 79.8182
32 Kimbrough,-Kent-P. 87.1818
33 Turnovsky,-Stephen-J. 91.9091
34 Newey,-Whitney-K. 94.2727
35 Ram,-Rati 94.7273
36 Bernheim,-B.-Douglas 95
37 Maskin,-Eric-S. 96
38 Fishburn,-Peter-C. 97.2727
39 Epstein,-Larry-G. 97.5455
40 Razin,-Assaf 100
41 Smith,-Bruce-D. 100.455
42 Leamer,-Edward-E. 102.364
43 Heckman,-James-J. 103.545
44 Lee,-Lung-fei 107.455
45 Allen,-Steven-G. 108.545
46 Stoker,-Thomas-M. 110.273
47 Hausman,-Jerry-A. 114.091
48 Moffitt,-Robert-A. 114.727
49 Whalley,-John 115.091
50 Schmalensee,-Richard 115.636
51 Hubbard,-R.-Glenn 117.455
52 van-Wijnbergen,-Sweder 118.455
53 Frankel,-Jeffrey-A. 118.818
54 Gal-Or,-Esther 119.727
55 Stulz,-Rene-M. 121.182
56 Tollison,-Robert-D. 123
57 Cooper,-Russell 123.818
58 Vives,-Xavier 129.364
59 Hamilton,-James-D. 131.818
60 Eaton,-Jonathan 134.091
61 Stock,-James-H. 136
62 Newbery,-David-M. 138.364
63 Fama,-Eugene-F. 140.182
64 Sappington,-David-E.-M. 140.545
65 Pissarides,-Christopher-A. 143.273
66 Dornbusch,-Rudiger 144.545
67 Katz,-Michael-L. 145.636
68 Andrews,-Donald-W.-K. 146
69 Nickell,-S. 146.455
70 Frenkel,-Jacob-A. 147.182
71 Dixit,-Avinash 147.727
72 Samuelson,-Larry 148.818
73 Riordan,-Michael-H. 150.364
74 Shapiro,-Matthew-D. 152.182
75 Behrman,-Jere-R. 154.091
76 Stahl,-Dale-O. 154.818
77 Card,-David 155
78 Hall,-Robert-E. 160.727
79 Wolinsky,-Asher 162
80 Shiller,-Robert-J. 162.091
81 Spulber,-Daniel-F. 162.273
82 Laidler,-David 163.364
83 Oswald,-Andrew-J. 163.364
84 Geweke,-John-F. 163.909
85 Pindyck,-Robert-S. 171.818
86 Lucas,-Robert-E.-B. 173.818
87 Hart,-Oliver 176.182
88 Griliches,-Zvi 177
89 Cecchetti,-Stephen-G. 180.818
90 Rotemberg,-Julio-J. 185.273
91 Gordon,-Robert-J. 189.545
92 Aizenman,-Joshua 191.455
93 Lazear,-Edward-P. 195
94 Roll,-Richard 197.545
95 Solow,-Robert-M. 199.727
96 Thaler,-Richard-H. 199.818
97 Eichengreen,-Barry 201.818
98 Lindbeck,-Assar 204.455
99 Thakor,-Anjan-V. 204.818
100 Kiefer,-Nicholas-M. 206.273
101 Reinganum,-Jennifer-F. 208.455
102 Rogoff,-Kenneth 210.091
103 Peltzman,-Sam 214.455
104 Sachs,-Jeffrey-D. 215.909
105 Shavell,-Steven 216
106 Smith,-V.-Kerry 226.636
107 James,-Christopher 230
108 Guesnerie,-Roger 231.545
109 Malcomson,-James-M. 231.727
110 Howitt,-Peter 234.182
111 Aumann,-Robert-J. 234.636
112 Hamermesh,-Daniel-S. 234.727
113 Edwards,-Sebastian 234.909
114 Rubinstein,-Ariel 234.909
115 Grossman,-Sanford-J. 247.455
116 Rosen,-Sherwin 247.545
117 Neary,-J.-Peter 253.091
118 Fisher,-Franklin-M. 257.727
119 Moore,-John 258.091
120 Weiss,-Andrew-A. 258.091
121 Walsh,-Carl-E. 262.091
122 Weitzman,-Martin-L. 262.364
123 Browning,-Edgar-K. 267
124 Williamson,-Stephen-D. 269.545
125 Farrell,-Joseph 271.909
126 Farmer,-Roger-E.-A. 272.727
127 Weymark,-John-A. 274.091
128 Kleidon,-Allan-W. 276
129 Borjas,-George-J. 277.182
130 Stark,-Oded 279.545
131 Samuelson,-Paul-A. 280
132 Pashigian,-B.-Peter 280.182
133 Hillman,-Arye-L. 280.273
134 Leonard,-Jonathan-S. 281.182
135 Modigliani,-Franco 284.909
136 Allen,-Beth 286
137 Joskow,-Paul-L. 288.636
138 Robinson,-Peter-M. 289.909
139 Henderson,-J.-Vernon 290.545
140 Bresnahan,-Timothy-F. 290.818
141 Johnson,-William-R. 296.818
142 Williamson,-Oliver-E. 298.091
143 Rogerson,-William-P. 301.909
144 Dreze,-Jacques-H. 302.364
145 Dotsey,-Michael 304.091
146 Shleifer,-Andrei 304.273
147 Smirlock,-Michael 305.545
148 Ethier,-Wilfred-J. 306.455
149 Buchanan,-James-M. 307.091
150 Fair,-Ray-C. 308
151 Rust,-John 308.273
152 Meltzer,-Allan-H. 308.455
153 Smith,-Vernon-L. 308.545
154 Palfrey,-Thomas-R. 308.636
155 Harris,-Richard-I.-D. 309.545
156 Nalebuff,-Barry 311.091
157 Scotchmer,-Suzanne 311.636
158 LeRoy,-Stephen-F. 312.727
159 Wildasin,-David-E. 312.818
160 Auerbach,-Alan-J. 315.636
161 Zellner,-Arnold 316.636
162 Jorgenson,-Dale-W. 318.273
163 Robins,-Philip-K. 318.545
164 Mookherjee,-Dilip 318.727
165 Stockman,-Alan-C. 319.364
166 Bernanke,-Ben-S. 319.455
167 MacDonald,-Glenn-M. 321.545
168 Drazen,-Allan 322.545
169 Huberman,-Gur 323
170 Roemer,-John-E. 324.273
171 Riley,-John-G. 327.455
172 Persson,-Torsten 330.909
173 Blundell,-Richard 331.091
174 Kotlikoff,-Laurence-J. 331.545
175 Schultz,-T.-Paul 334.636
176 French,-Kenneth-R. 335.273
177 Townsend,-Robert-M. 337.273
178 Ashenfelter,-Orley 337.727
179 Jones,-Larry-E. 343.727
180 Ng,-Yew-Kwang 344.273
181 Huang,-Chi-Fu 344.545
182 Marcus,-Alan-J. 344.818
183 Danziger,-Leif 344.909
184 Caves,-Richard-E. 349.909
185 Lucas,-Robert-E., Jr. 350.545
186 Wolpin,-Kenneth-I. 350.636
187 Levine,-David-K. 352.455
188 Balassa,-Bela 353.455
189 Lang,-Kevin 353.636
190 Isaac,-R.-Mark 354.273
191 Romer,-David-H. 354.364
192 Buiter,-Willem-H. 361.818
193 Kuhn,-Peter 366.727
194 Chiappori,-Pierre-Andre 367.455
195 Blau,-David-M. 370
196 Fudenberg,-Drew 372.636
197 Anderson,-Gary-M. 373.273
198 Milgrom,-Paul 375.182
199 Jarrell,-Gregg-A. 376.909
200 Chiswick,-Barry-R. 377.364
201 Roley,-V.-Vance 378.909
202 Wilson,-John-Douglas 380.818
203 Cheng,-Leonard-K. 385
204 Pagan,-Adrian-R. 385.545
205 Machina,-Mark-J. 386.545
206 Becker,-Gary-S. 387.455
207 Alesina,-Alberto 387.818
208 Berger,-Mark-C. 387.818
209 Constantinides,-George-M. 389.909
210 Friedman,-Milton 390
211 Pakes,-Ariel 391.909
212 McAfee,-R.-Preston 393.091
213 Romer,-Christina-D. 394.818
214 Katz,-Eliakim 394.909
215 Karpoff,-Jonathan-M. 395.909
216 Hellwig,-Martin 396.727
217 Admati,-Anat-R. 398.364
218 Duffie,-J.-Darrell 400.818
219 Watson,-Mark-W. 403
220 Evans,-George-W. 403.545
221 Tabellini,-Guido 406.364
222 Gapinski,-James-H. 409.273
223 Saloner,-Garth 409.364
224 Markusen,-James-R. 411.455
225 Morrison,-Catherine-J. 412
226 Djajic,-Slobodan 415.091
227 Abraham,-Katharine-G. 415.273
228 Sah,-Raaj 416.909
229 Grinols,-Earl-L. 425.909
230 McCloskey,-Deirdre-N. 426.273
231 Saari,-Donald-G. 428
232 Greenwald,-Bruce-C. 428.909
233 Gale,-Douglas 430.727
234 Titman,-Sheridan 430.727
235 Ippolito,-Richard-A. 433.727
236 Topel,-Robert-H. 434
237 Green,-Richard-C. 435.364
238 Akerlof,-George-A. 436.909
239 Basu,-Kaushik 444.455
240 Deaton,-Angus 449.091
241 Lewbel,-Arthur 450.636
242 Brown,-Stephen-J. 452
243 Garber,-Peter-M. 452.091
244 Gourieroux,-Christian 453.182
245 Boskin,-Michael-J. 456.909
246 Kahn,-Charles-M. 457
247 Diamond,-Peter-A. 458.545
248 Miyazaki,-Hajime 459.273
249 Hardouvelis,-Gikas-A. 459.455
250 Friedman,-Benjamin-M. 460.091
251 Mountain,-Dean-C. 460.636
252 Skinner,-Jonathan 462.545
253 Feenstra,-Robert-C. 465.727
254 Diewert,-W.-Erwin 466.455
255 Garen,-John-E. 467.091
256 Huffman,-Gregory-W. 469.364
257 Griffin,-James-M. 470.545
258 Eisner,-Robert 475.364
259 Davidson,-Carl 475.545
260 Powell,-James-L. 475.636
261 Ross,-Thomas-W. 476.636
262 Tobin,-James 480.727
263 Levy,-Haim 483.545
264 Hafer,-R.-W. 483.818
265 Christiano,-Lawrence-J. 484.636
266 Kehoe,-Timothy-J. 485.455
267 Mendelson,-Haim 486.182
268 Plott,-Charles-R. 487.727
269 Prescott,-Edward-C. 493.182
270 Farber,-Henry-S. 497.636
271 Freeman,-Richard-B. 503.273
272 Chamley,-Christophe 503.636
273 Frank,-Robert-H. 504.091
274 Miller,-Merton-H. 507.545
275 Wernerfelt,-Birger 509.364
276 Baron,-David-P. 509.455
277 Pencavel,-John 510.818
278 Grandmont,-Jean-Michel 511
279 Besanko,-David 516.182
280 de-Meza,-David 517
281 Demange,-Gabrielle 517.182
282 van-der-Ploeg,-Frederick 518.091
283 Wright,-Randall 519.182
284 Klemperer,-Paul 522.091
285 Rosen,-Harvey-S. 524.909
286 Darity,-William, Jr. 526.364
287 Hansen,-Robert-G. 528.636
288 Thisse,-Jacques-Francois 531.091
289 Roberts,-Russell-D. 533.182
290 King,-Robert-G. 537.364
291 Jovanovic,-Boyan 542.273
292 Spiller,-Pablo-T. 545.273
293 Blackorby,-Charles 547.273
294 Waldman,-Michael 547.455
295 Margo,-Robert-A. 548.818
296 Lee,-Dwight-R. 550.727
297 Dasgupta,-Partha 552.182
298 Heiner,-Ronald-A. 557.364
299 Gottschalk,-Peter 558.818
300 Gordon,-Roger-H. 559.091
301 Repullo,-Rafael 559.455
302 ten-Raa,-Thijs 559.636
303 Bond,-Eric-W. 560.636
304 Staiger,-Robert-W. 563.909
305 Ray,-Debraj 566.545
306 Roberts,-John 572.909
307 Wolfe,-Barbara-L. 581.545
308 Perry,-Motty 582.727
309 Hollander,-Samuel 583.273
310 Bloom,-David-E. 583.818
311 Lichtenberg,-Frank-R. 584.455
312 Sandler,-Todd 588.818
313 Romer,-Paul-M. 589.091
314 Dixon,-Huw-David 596.364
315 Corden,-W.-Max 596.909
316 Chavas,-Jean-Paul 597.727
317 Srivastava,-Sanjay 598.455
318 Shughart,-William-F., II 599.545
319 Kim,-Moshe 603.909
320 Spindt,-Paul-A. 604.273
321 Ronn,-Ehud-I. 606.455
322 White,-Michelle-J. 606.545
323 Thomson,-William 611.091
324 McFadden,-Daniel-L. 613.273
325 Shepherd,-William-G. 617.818
326 Simon,-Leo-K. 622
327 McMillan,-John 624.909
328 Spear,-Stephen-E. 625.273
329 Allen,-Franklin 625.364
330 Engle,-Robert-F. 627.636
331 Donaldson,-David 629.727
332 White,-Lawrence-H. 630.909
333 Bulow,-Jeremy 634
334 Wolff,-Edward-N. 634.455
335 Siegel,-Daniel-R. 636.545
336 Manski,-Charles-F. 637.818
337 Williams,-Steven-R. 647.455
338 Sugden,-Robert 648.545
339 Browning,-Martin 649.273
340 Ruback,-Richard-S. 649.273
341 Bean,-Charles-R. 652.727
342 Vickers,-John 658.545
343 Filer,-Randall 659.727
344 Sheffrin,-Steven-M. 661.455
345 Aiyagari,-S.-Rao 661.636
346 Sobel,-Joel 664
347 Prucha,-Ingmar-R. 665.182
348 Brada,-Josef-C. 665.727
349 Kanemoto,-Yoshitsugu 667.182
350 Svejnar,-Jan 668.182
351 Yellen,-Janet-L. 668.273
352 Ondrich,-Jan 669
353 Porter,-Robert-H. 669
354 Rodrik,-Dani 670.182
355 MacLeod,-W.-Bentley 673.727
356 Saunders,-Anthony 678.636
357 Trivedi,-Pravin-K. 680.455
358 Shefrin,-Hersh 682
359 Ravallion,-Martin 682.818
360 Snower,-Dennis-J. 689.091
361 Taub,-Bart 690.273
362 Coursey,-Don-L. 694.545
363 Gahvari,-Firouz 698.182
364 Crawford,-Vincent 698.818
365 Andersen,-Torben-M. 700.182
366 Young,-Leslie 702.545
367 Coughlin,-Peter-J. 702.545
368 Cremer,-Jacques 702.818
369 Kreps,-David-M. 703.455
370 Olson,-Mancur, Jr. 704.091
371 Hosios,-Arthur-J. 704.636
372 Lott,-John-R., Jr. 705.455
373 Lewis,-Tracy-R. 706.091
374 Dwyer,-Gerald-P., Jr. 708.455
375 Singleton,-Kenneth-J. 711
376 Miron,-Jeffrey-A. 711.455
377 Haltiwanger,-John 711.818
378 Evans,-David-S. 719.727
379 Quigley,-John-M. 721.818
380 McKelvey,-Richard-D. 722.455
381 MacKinnon,-James-G. 723.909
382 Bester,-Helmut 724.273
383 Chesher,-Andrew 726.727
384 Myerson,-Roger-B. 728.455
385 Kindleberger,-Charles-P. 730.273
386 Osborne,-Martin-J. 731.091
387 von-Ungern-Sternberg,-Thomas 731.364
388 Goodfriend,-Marvin 735.636
389 Merrick,-John-J., Jr. 739.273
390 Vohra,-Rajiv 744.727
391 Hasbrouck,-Joel 748.636
392 Flood,-Robert-P. 750.818
393 Pesando,-James-E. 750.818
394 Solon,-Gary 751.364
395 Burtless,-Gary 753.545
396 Rochet,-Jean-Charles 755.636
397 Goldin,-Claudia 756.455
398 Zilcha,-Itzhak 759.818
399 Zame,-William-R. 764.182
400 Hayashi,-Fumio 767.091
401 Holzer,-Harry-J. 767.273
402 Martin,-Robert-E. 768.818
403 Pollak,-Robert-A. 769.545
404 Winter,-Ralph-A. 770.545
405 Seidman,-Laurence-S. 775.182
406 Sargent,-Thomas-J. 776.364
407 Friedman,-Daniel 779.182
408 Eckstein,-Zvi 780.727
409 Meese,-Richard-A. 782.364
410 Laband,-David-N. 786
411 Panagariya,-Arvind 788.455
412 Easterbrook,-Frank-H. 790.091
413 Bowles,-Samuel 791.273
414 Whinston,-Michael-D. 797
415 Libecap,-Gary-D. 797.818
416 Mark,-Nelson-C. 798.818
417 Azariadis,-Costas 801.182
418 Darby,-Michael-R. 801.818
419 Daniel,-Betty-C. 803.545
420 Stuart,-Charles 804.636
421 Kuran,-Timur 805.818
422 Binmore,-Ken 805.909
423 Rogerson,-Richard 807.182
424 King,-Maxwell-L. 807.364
425 Wilson,-Robert 808
426 Ball,-Laurence 809.273
427 Zilberman,-David 811.909
428 Granger,-Clive-W.-J. 816.091
429 Wasserfallen,-Walter 816.909
430 Gilbert,-Christopher-L. 817.364
431 Hulten,-Charles-R. 823.455
432 McDonald,-Ian-M. 830.545
433 Morey,-Edward-R. 830.545
434 Wadhwani,-Sushil 831.909
435 Bruno,-Michael 832.909
436 Altonji,-Joseph-G. 834
437 Kahn,-James-A. 834.727
438 Smith,-James-P. 835.273
439 Abreu,-Dilip 836.273
440 Plosser,-Charles-I. 838
441 Williamson,-John 845
442 McCormick,-Robert-E. 848.909
443 Perloff,-Jeffrey-M. 851.545
444 Danzon,-Patricia-M. 855.636
445 Radner,-Roy 856.182
446 Sadka,-Efraim 860.545
447 Morgan,-Peter-B. 862.636
448 Field,-Alexander-James 863.727
449 Merton,-Robert-C. 863.909
450 Schultze,-Charles-L. 866.636
451 Winston,-Clifford 870.727
452 Sutton,-John 870.909
453 Cukierman,-Alex 871.818
454 Williams,-Jeffrey 871.909
455 Bonanno,-Giacomo 873.364
456 Atkinson,-Anthony-Barnes 875.636
457 Nickelsburg,-Gerald 881.636
458 Ebert,-Udo 883.636
459 Fershtman,-Chaim 883.636
460 Milbourne,-Ross 884.636
461 Smith,-Richard-J. 884.818
462 Timberlake,-Richard-H. 885.455
463 Pauly,-Mark-V. 886.636
464 Nordhaus,-William-D. 891.273
465 Wiggins,-Steven-N. 892.091
466 Eichenbaum,-Martin 893.727
467 Jensen,-Michael-C. 894.455
468 Holland,-A.-Steven 895.182
469 Williams,-Arlington-W. 896.364
470 Kane,-Edward-J. 898.364
471 Carmichael,-H.-Lorne 901.364
472 Kollintzas,-Tryphon 902.455
473 Dutta,-Bhaskar 902.727
474 Klein,-Lawrence-R. 903.455
475 Krasker,-William-S. 906.818
476 Green,-Edward-J. 913.636
477 Poirier,-Dale-J. 914.545
478 Rothenberg,-Thomas-J. 917
479 Mayer,-Colin 917.636
480 Pratt,-John-W. 918.455
481 Von-Wiezsacker,-Christian 919.273
482 Litterman,-Robert 919.364
483 Bhagwati,-Jagdish 920.091
484 Schwartz,-Alan 920.273
485 Bandyopadhyay,-Taradas 923.182
486 Bergson,-Abram 923.545
487 Harrington,-Joseph-E., Jr. 923.909
488 Murphy,-Kevin-J. 926.727
489 Arnott,-Richard 928.818
490 Greenwood,-Michael-J. 930.818
491 Parkin,-Michael 932
492 Chirinko,-Robert-S. 936.545
493 Haveman,-Robert 939.545
494 Polemarchakis,-Herakles-M. 939.818
495 Mak,-King-tim 941.273
496 Clark,-Peter-K. 941.455
497 Masten,-Scott-E. 947.364
498 O'Hara,-Maureen 947.545
499 Oates,-Wallace-E. 951.273
500 Donnenfeld,-Shabtai 951.545