REPEC's Rankings of USC Economics

As we enter the recruiting season for both new MA and PHD students and recruiting new faculty, it is useful to collect some facts about where USC Economics ranks.   I find that vanilla rankings such as US News and World Report are backwards looking and based on outdated information.  So, permit me to present some facts based on REPEC;

We are ranked #20 among U.S economics departments (Columbia is double counted).

We are ranked #23 in the world among research universities.  (I"m not counting 4 non-universities ranked above us).   We hold this same rank if you restrict to our publications over the last 10 years.

In Econometrics,  we are ranked #7 in the world.

In natural resources economics, we are ranked #5 in the world (and I'm ranked #2!). 

In terms of individual economists, we hold the following ranks among the world's 55,000 ranked economists.   So, Hashem is the #24 ranked economist in the world.  Impressive!

24	24. M Hashem Pesaran Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) 125 Joshua Aizenman Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

342	Matthew E. Kahn Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

584	Cheng Hsiao Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

747

747  Kevin J. Murphy Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) 815 Arie Kapteyn Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) 1293 Vincenzo Quadrini Department of Finance and Business Economics, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

1425	John Strauss Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

1660	Hyungsik Roger Moon Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

1732	Geert Ridder Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA) 2125 Romain Ranciere Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

2377	Jeffrey B. Nugent Department of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (USA)

When you add up the USC Economists sitting at the Economics Department, Marshall, CESR, the Price School and the Schaeffer Health Economics center, we collectively represent a thriving research community.

As you ponder these facts, keep in mind that this is a lower bound relative to what we will achieve over the next 5 to 10 years.  We achieved these accomplishments despite the fact that USC Economics has only 1 endowed chair.  We are the largest major on campus and our MA program is thriving.