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Top Economic Institutions by Number of Authors Ranked in Top 5%, as of May 2026

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  • There are 9321 institutions with 73501 registered authors evaluated for all the rankings

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1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)92.50564141.89
2London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom56.02361248.57
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.356659.13
4University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)32.846450.00
5Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)31.187360.87
6Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia30.90127124.41
7Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)27.776252.93
8International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)27.62549509.06
9World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)27.36654591.72
10Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)26.297054.08
11Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom26.0942054.94
12Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom24.73189141.15
13Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain24.57193173.10
14Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)24.366257.74
15University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)23.538573.69
16Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)22.366753.51
17Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy22.08190152.45
18Paris School of Economics, Paris, France22.08224174.89
19Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)22.064341.55
20Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)22.035043.87
21Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)21.737367.30
22Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)21.124940.90
23University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)21.038976.95
24New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)20.996048.03
25University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)20.715749.28
26Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France20.40168160.56
27University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)20.385142.05
28Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France20.2912082.91
29Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)19.739349.31
30Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)19.5910399.92
31University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)19.596455.45
32University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)19.515245.36
33Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)19.485442.05
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom19.385745.39
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.97150134.68
34Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)18.435143.37
35European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany18.42287261.42
36Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg18.001037187.47
37University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.655248.82
38Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.496351.32
39University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom17.357055.90
40Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)17211205.39
41Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)16.816145.77
42New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.755952.43
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg16.71994145.95
43Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)16.453731.84
44Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)15.815345.24
45Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)15.775339.07
46University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)15.473734.70
47University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom15.449376.64
48University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada14.996156.88
49Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)14.734131.58
50Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland14.6010597.42
51Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland14.14194167.87
52Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)13.954139.64
53Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands13.77149129.44
54Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium13.66179143.98
55Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)13.605446.30
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.465143.16
55Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.466051.86
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)13.226860.55
57Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.094632.87
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France13.065442.57
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)13.062822.92
58Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)12.745849.08
59London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom12.643429.22
60University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada12.377468.05
61Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)12.264333.99
62Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands12.2410682.65
63Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)12.204138.90
64Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.197366.69
65University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)12.186357.78
66University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.087558.92
67Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia11.85204191.48
68University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom11.8411974.51
69DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany11.79142100.81
70University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)11.783631.98
71University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.692217.19
72Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands11.209585.61
-Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.042115.44
73Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden10.946549.97
74ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany10.88203154.40
75University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)10.814637.54
76University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)10.804640.37

Top 6%

In random order
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)

Top 7%

In random order
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
CESifo, München, Germany
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM) → Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)

Top 8%

In random order
Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)

Top 9%

In random order
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, Austria
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
Banco de la Republica de Colombia → Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena, Colombia
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Iowa State University → Department of Economics, Ames, Iowa (United States)

Top 10%

In random order
Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)
Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
University of Connecticut → Department of Economics, Storrs, Connecticut (United States)
Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
University of Queensland → School of Economics, Brisbane, Australia
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)
Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway
Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow, Russia
University of Birmingham → Department of Economics, Birmingham, United Kingdom
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
Universidad de Chile → Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Santiago, Chile
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
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