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

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1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)93.10565141.99
2London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom57.53363250.55
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.356860.63
4University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)32.126450.00
5Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)31.187461.86
6Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia29.90128125.21
7Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)27.776252.93
8International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)27.62549508.88
9World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)26.89652590.75
10Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)26.297154.58
11Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom25.4442254.40
12Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom24.73189141.15
13Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain24.48194174.10
14Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)24.366358.74
15University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)23.538573.69
16Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)22.366854.51
17Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)22.125041.90
18Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy22.08190152.40
19Paris School of Economics, Paris, France22.08226176.89
20Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)22.064341.55
21Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)22.035043.87
22New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)21.746048.03
23Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)21.737367.30
24University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)21.385142.05
25University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)21.038976.95
26University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)20.715749.28
27Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)20.5910399.92
28Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France20.2912183.16
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom19.885745.89
29Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)19.719248.36
30University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)19.596455.45
31University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)19.515245.36
32Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)19.485442.05
33Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg19.001038186.19
34Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France18.90168160.56
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)18.50150135.21
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg17.71996145.36
35University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.655248.82
36Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.496250.32
37Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)17.435143.37
38European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany17.42288261.92
39University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom17.357156.90
40Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)17.316146.27
41Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)17211205.39
42Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)16.775339.07
43New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.755952.43
44Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)16.453731.84
45University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada15.996156.87
46Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)15.815345.24
47Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)15.734131.58
48University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)15.473734.70
49University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom15.449476.89
50Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland14.6010698.42
51Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland14.14194167.87
52Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)14.105446.30
53Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)13.954240.64
54Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands13.77148128.44
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)13.726860.55
55Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)13.685950.08
56Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium13.66179143.98
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.465143.16
56Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.466051.86
-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
58University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada12.647468.27
59Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)12.264333.99
60Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)12.244632.87
61Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)12.204138.90
62Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.197366.69
63London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom12.143428.72
64University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.087558.92
65Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands12.0410682.65
66Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia11.85204191.48
66University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom11.8511874.31
68University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)11.814435.54
69DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany11.79142100.81
70ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany11.78203154.40
71University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)11.783631.98
72University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.692217.19
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain11.5810678.27
73University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)11.303935.06
74Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands11.209686.61
75University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)11.186357.78
-Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.042115.44
76Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden10.946549.97

Top 6%

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

Top 7%

In random order
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, 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
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
CESifo, München, Germany
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)

Top 8%

In random order
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)

Top 9%

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

Top 10%

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