In terms of best economic researchers out of several hundred from Switzerland, Germany, and Austria ranked by Forschungsmonitoring, we are proud to announce:

• SFI Prof. Laurent Frésard (USI) – No. 3 young economist under the age of 40, and strongest economist at USI
• SFI Prof. Roni Michaely (UNIGE) – No. 1 author as well as No. 1 lifetime scientist in business administration (BA) in terms of A+ publications, and strongest scientist in BA at UNIGE
• SFI Prof. Philipp Krüger (UNIGE) – No. 1 scientist under the age of 40 in BA in terms of A+ publications
• SFI Prof. Norman Schürhoff (UNIL) – strongest economist at UNIL
• SFI Prof. Steven Ongena (UZH) – No. 4 author as well as No. 11 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications, and strongest scientist in BA at UZH
• SFI Prof. Felix Kübler (UZH) – No. 4 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications
• SFI Prof. Harald Hau (UNIGE) – No. 6 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications, and strongest economist at UNIGE
• SFI Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet (UNIGE) – No. 7 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications
• SFI Prof. Rüdiger Fahlenbrach (EPFL) – No. 8 author as well as No. 8 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications
• SFI Prof. Amit Goyal (UNIL) – No. 8 lifetime scientist in BA in terms of A+ publications

Congrats also to many other SFI faculty members as well as all SFI partner universities for having it made into the ranking!

Note: BWL ranking as of January 2021 (last update). VWL ranking as of October 2019 (last update). Some professors might not be part of the ranking because they did not report their data.