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

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1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)94.45567142.26
2London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom57.03362249.84
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.356860.63
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)32.187562.86
5University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)32.126450.00
6World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)30.88656593.45
7International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)28.62549509.16
8Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)27.776353.93
9Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain27.41196176.30
10Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom27.2542354.90
11Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)26.297154.61
12Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)25.366257.74
13Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom24.82189141.15
14Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)24.366854.51
15Paris School of Economics, Paris, France24.08226176.89
16University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)24.038674.69
17Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy23.75189152.35
18Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)23.064341.55
19University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)22.768977.35
20New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)22.646048.03
21Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)22.625142.40
22Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)22.535144.87
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)22.49151135.55
23University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)22.385142.05
24Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)21.937165.30
25European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany21.41288261.92
26Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)21.029248.36
27Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg20.981037186.50
28Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France20.90168160.56
29Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)20.5910399.92
30University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)20.596455.45
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom19.885745.89
31University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)19.715749.28
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
34University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada18.846156.88
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg18.73994145.07
35Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)18.435143.37
36Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)18.316146.27
37University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom17.857257.90
38Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France17.8312183.16
39New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.655952.43
39University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.655248.82
41Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)17.50211205.39
42Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.496351.32
43Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)17.115339.07
44University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)16.473734.70
45University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom16.449376.39
46Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland15.74194167.71
47Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)15.734131.58
48Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)15.453731.84
49Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)15.094632.87
50Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.815345.24
51Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)14.785849.18
52Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands14.76149129.44
53Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland14.5510597.42
54University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada14.497468.27
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)14.226860.55
55Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)14.105446.30
56Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)13.954341.64
57Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium13.56179143.98
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland13.38114102.41
58Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)13.264333.99
59Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)13.204138.90
60University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)13.186357.75
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France13.165442.57
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)13.062822.92
61London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom13.043428.72
62University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom12.8511874.31
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain12.6110679.22
63Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)12.585851.57
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)12.495143.16
63Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)12.496051.86
65University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)12.265852.34
66Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands12.2410682.65
67Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.197366.69
68University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.087558.92
69Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia12.05205192.48
70Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium11.9113897.45
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
73Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)11.655549.58

Top 6%

In random order
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)

Top 7%

In random order
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
CESifo, München, Germany
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (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
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)

Top 8%

In random order
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (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
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)

Top 9%

In random order
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)

Top 10%

In random order
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI), Barcelona, Spain
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies → International Economics Section, Genève, Switzerland
Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria
University of Queensland → School of Economics, Brisbane, Australia
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