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

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1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom60.06363250.55
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)55.14565141.99
3European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany42.82288261.92
4Banco de la Republica de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia38.70128125.21
5International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)32.34549508.88
6Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland32.2510698.42
7World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)31.76652590.75
8Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)29.737461.86
9Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy28.32190152.40
10University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)27.316860.63
11Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)27.0910399.92
12Paris School of Economics, Paris, France26.66226176.89
13Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain26.21194174.10
14Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)26.046252.93
15Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)26211205.39
16University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)23.298573.69
17Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France22.9712183.16
18University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)22.476450.00
19Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)21.937154.58
20Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)20.735043.87
21Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)20.705041.90
22Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)20.356854.51
23University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom19.527156.90
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)19.226860.55
24DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany18.39142100.81
25Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France18.19168160.56
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom17.935745.89
26Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom17.22189141.15
27Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)176146.27
28Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)16.994138.90
29University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)16.658976.95
30University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)16.626455.45
31Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland16.61194167.87
32Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)16.145442.05
33Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg16.041038186.19
34ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany15.97203154.40
35Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom15.9642254.40
36Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)15.957367.30
37University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)15.856357.78
38Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia15.83204191.48
39University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.825248.82
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)15.39150135.21
40Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)15.126051.86
41University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada15.087468.27
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France15.075442.57
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
45Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)14.366250.32
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland13.79114102.57
46Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.629248.36
47Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)13.106358.74
48University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)12.915245.36
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg12.89996145.36
49Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France12.8411287.20
50New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)12.816048.03
51Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)12.245345.24
52Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)12.165446.30
53Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)12.145339.07
54Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy12.12379368.42
-Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)123328.96
55University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)11.865142.05
56University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)11.675749.28
57New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)11.345952.43
58University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)11.263631.98
59Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)11.104333.99
60University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)11.097558.92
61International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)10.60190178.02
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom10.518932.02
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain10.5010678.27
62University 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
63Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)10.114341.55
64Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow, Russia10.11268217.00
65UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia108977.96
66Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)9.954644.59
67Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)9.904240.64
68Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands9.899686.61
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
71University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)9.623430.03
72KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium9.60161118.99
73Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.594844.54
74University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom9.477959.61
75Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Moscow, Russia9.3213184.59
76University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)9.245248.06
77Bank of England, London, United Kingdom9.22215197.37
-Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)9.042115.44
78"Sapienza" Università di Roma → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy8.99160153.55
79Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)8.953127.58
80Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)8.935750.57
81Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)8.857366.69
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia8.788376.74
82London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom8.633428.72
83Harvard 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
83Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.479081.69
85Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway8.25131114.92
86Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland8.199469.10
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)8.072822.92
-Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway84540.85
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
89University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom7.969476.89
89Banque de France, Paris, France7.96206182.25
-Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)7.953530.89
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy7.903425.20
91HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France7.894240.84
92Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain7.823126.12
93University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada7.716156.87
94WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria7.6611084.35

Top 6%

In random order
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom
Univerzita Karlova v Praze → Institut ekonomických studií, Praha, Czech Republic
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway
Banco de la Republica de Colombia → Centro de Estudios Economicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena, Colombia
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom

Top 7%

In random order
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
Universidad de Zaragoza → Facultad de Economía y Empresa, Zaragoza, Spain
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom
Texas A&M University → Department of Economics, College Station, Texas (United States)
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain
Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)
Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
University of Michigan → Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Universiteit Gent → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Gent, Belgium

Top 8%

In random order
Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
University of Arizona → Eller College of Management, Tucson, Arizona (United States)
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Macquarie University → Business School, Sydney, Australia
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden
HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Montréal, Canada
Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, Ireland
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
University of Arizona → Eller College of Management → Economics Department, Tucson, Arizona (United States)

Top 9%

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

Top 10%

In random order
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
Kiel Institut für Weltwirtschaft - Leibniz Zentrum zur Erforschung globaler ökonomischer Herausforderungen (IfW), Kiel, Germany
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) → Escola de Economia de São Paulo (EESP), São Paulo, Brazil
New York University Abu Dhabi → Economics, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Université de Bordeaux → Bordeaux Sciences Économiques (BSE), Bordeaux, France
Uniwersytet Warszawski → Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Warszawa, Poland
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Université Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne) → Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
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
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Johns Hopkins University → Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
Peking University → Guanghua School of Management, Beijing, China
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway
Deakin University → Business School, Melbourne, Australia
Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
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