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Top Economic Institutions by Number of Authors Ranked in Top 5% (Last 10 Years of Publications), as of May 2026

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1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom58.62361248.57
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)55.44564141.89
3European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany42.82287261.42
4Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia40.70127124.41
5International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)32.34549509.06
6World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)31.76654591.72
7Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland31.2510597.42
8Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)29.737360.87
9Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy28.37190152.45
10Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)27.0910399.92
11Paris School of Economics, Paris, France26.66224174.89
12University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)26.316659.13
13Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)26.046252.93
14Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)26211205.39
15Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain25.22193173.10
16University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)23.298573.69
17Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France22.7212082.91
18University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)22.476450.00
19Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)21.937054.08
20Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)20.735043.87
21Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)20.356753.51
22Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)19.704940.90
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)19.226860.55
23University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom18.527055.90
24DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany18.39142100.81
25Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom18189141.15
26University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.658976.95
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom17.435745.39
27Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France17.19168160.56
28Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)16.994138.90
29Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)16.836145.77
30University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)16.626455.45
31Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland16.61194167.87
32Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg16.371037187.47
33Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom16.3442054.94
34Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)16.145442.05
35ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany15.97203154.40
36Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia15.83204191.48
37University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.825248.82
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)15.39150134.68
38Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)15.366351.32
39Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)15.126051.86
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France15.075442.57
40Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)14.957367.30
41University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada14.867468.05
42Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.845143.37
43Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)14.734131.58
44Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, Austria14.698269.27
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)14.625143.16
45University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)13.915245.36
46University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)13.886357.78
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland13.79114102.57
47Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.619349.31
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg13.02994145.95
48New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)12.816048.03
49Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)12.245345.24
50Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)12.165446.30
51Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)12.145339.07
52Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)12.106257.74
-Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)123328.96
53University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)11.865142.05
54Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France11.8511287.20
55International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)11.50190178.92
56New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)11.345952.43
57University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)11.263631.98
58Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)11.104333.99
59University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)11.097558.92
60University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)10.675749.28
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain10.5010678.27
61University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)10.355953.34
-International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)10.315450.39
62Bank of England, London, United Kingdom10.22217198.37
63Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy10.12379368.42
64Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)10.114341.55
65Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia10.11268217.00
66UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia108977.96
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom9.958932.02
66Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)9.954644.55
68Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands9.899585.61
69Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy9.74129115.58
70Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)9.663731.84
71KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium9.60161119.49
72Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.594844.54
73University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom9.477858.61
74University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)9.245248.06
75University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom9.069376.64
-Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)9.042115.44
76Banco de España, Madrid, Spain9.03156150.78
77Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)8.953127.58
78Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)8.904139.64
79Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)8.857366.69
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia8.788376.74
80London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom8.633429.22
81University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)8.623430.03
82Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)8.594632.87
-Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)8.583028.12
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.477163.36
82Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.479081.69
-Banco de la Republica de Colombia → Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena, Colombia8.451716.45
84Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow, Russia8.3213083.59
85Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland8.199368.20
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)8.072822.92
86"Sapienza" Università di Roma → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy7.99160153.55
87Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)7.983131.03
88University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)7.974845.26
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy7.903526.20
89HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France7.894240.84
90Banque de France, Paris, France7.86206182.15
91Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom7.867365.50
92Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain7.823126.12
93University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada7.726156.88
94Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium7.65179143.98

Top 6%

In random order
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France

Top 7%

In random order
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain
University of Michigan → Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China
London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom
Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Gent, Belgium
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Texas A&M University → Department of Economics, College Station, Texas (United States)
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze → Institut ekonomických studií, Praha, Czech Republic
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden

Top 8%

In random order
Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium
Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Universidad de Zaragoza → Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Zaragoza, Spain

Top 9%

In random order
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
"Sapienza" Università di Roma → Facoltà di Economia → Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Roma, Italy
University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
Massey University → Business School, Auckland/Palmerston North, New Zealand
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC) → KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zürich, Switzerland
Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
CESifo, München, Germany
University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)
University of Oregon → Department of Economics, Eugene, Oregon (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
Macquarie University → Business School, Sydney, Australia
Brunel University London → Department of Economics and Finance, Uxbridge, United Kingdom
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) → Economics Department, Paris, France
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Economic Research Department, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Roma, Italy
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)

Top 10%

In random order
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Johns Hopkins University → Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
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
Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Arizona → Eller College of Management, Tucson, Arizona (United States)
University of Arizona → Eller College of Management → Economics Department, Tucson, Arizona (United States)
Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Deakin University → Business School, Melbourne, Australia
Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany
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