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

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1London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom62.57362249.84
2National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)56.36567142.26
3European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany45.48288261.92
4World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)39.70656593.45
5International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)34.68549509.16
6Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland33.2510597.42
7Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)29.89211205.39
8Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy29.44189152.35
9Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)28.987562.86
10Paris School of Economics, Paris, France28.10226176.89
11University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)27.316860.63
12Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)27.0910399.92
13Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain25.97196176.30
14Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)23.046353.93
15University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)21.976450.00
16Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)21.356854.51
17University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)21.298674.69
18Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)20.735144.87
19University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom20.527257.90
20Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)20.467154.61
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)20.38151135.55
21Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France20.19168160.56
22Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France20.1212183.16
23Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)19.955142.40
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)19.226860.55
24Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom19189141.15
25Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia18.80205192.48
26Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)18.506146.27
27Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland18.14194167.71
28University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.558977.35
29Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.766351.32
30University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)16.626455.45
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom16.535745.89
31Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)16.494138.90
32Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom16.2442354.90
33University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada16.137468.27
34Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)15.957165.30
35University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)15.956357.75
36DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany15.89142100.81
37University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)15.825248.82
38Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg15.821037186.50
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France15.075442.57
39ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany14.90203153.65
40Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.845143.37
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland14.82114102.41
41Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.245345.24
42Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)14.234131.58
43Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)14.156257.74
44University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)13.915245.36
45New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)13.816048.03
46Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)13.745442.05
47Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.149248.36
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.105143.16
47Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.106051.86
49University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)12.865142.05
50Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France12.8411287.29
51Banca d'Italia, Roma, Italy12.69380368.97
52University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.675749.28
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg12.47994145.07
53New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)12.345952.43
54Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)12.265446.30
55Bank of England, London, United Kingdom12.21216197.87
56Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)12.114341.55
57Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)12.095339.07
58University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.097558.92
-Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)123328.96
59Banque de France, Paris, France11.70208183.75
60Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna → Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Bologna, Italy11.69130116.08
-International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)11.655450.39
61University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)11.355852.34
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain11.3510679.22
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom11.178932.02
62University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)11.123430.03
63Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)11.104333.99
64Banco de España, Madrid, Spain11.03156150.78
65Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands10.899787.61
-Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia10.758376.74
66Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)10.594844.54
67Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)10.533127.58
68University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)10.313631.98
69Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)10.107366.69
70UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia109079.09
71Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)9.925851.57
72Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)9.704644.59
73Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)9.663731.84
74University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada9.626156.88
74Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark9.628170.13
76KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium9.59162119.99
-Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia → Research Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)9.583028.12
77University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)9.235248.06
78Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)9.074632.87
-Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Economia "Ettore Bocconi", Milano, Italy8.903425.20
78Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)8.904341.64
80HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France8.894240.84
81University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)8.873734.70
82London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom8.633428.72
83University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom8.589376.39
-Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)8.542115.44
84University of Hong Kong → Faculty of Business and Economics, Pokfulam, Hong Kong8.483432.48
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)8.472822.92
-Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.427163.36
84Government of the United States → Department of Commerce, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)8.429081.69
86"Sapienza" Università di Roma → Facoltà di Economia, Roma, Italy7.99160153.55
87Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)7.983130.13
88University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)7.974845.26
89Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)7.975149.27
90Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden7.946549.97
91Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)7.862927.08
92Texas A&M University → Department of Economics, College Station, Texas (United States)7.853734.07

Top 6%

In random order
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze → Institut ekonomických studií, Praha, Czech Republic
Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) → Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Bergen, Norway
Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH), Bergen, Norway
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas → Economic Research Department, Dallas, Texas (United States)
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ) → Department of Management, Technology and Economics (D-MTEC), Zürich, Switzerland
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics → Department of Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore → Dipartimenti e Istituti di Scienze Economiche, Milano/Piacenza, Italy
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium
Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Kentucky → Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, Lexington, Kentucky (United States)
Queen Mary University of London → School of Economics and Finance, London, United Kingdom
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School → School of Economics, Sydney, Australia

Top 7%

In random order
Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica CSIC (IAE-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa → School of Business and Economics, Lisboa, Portugal
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
Government of the United States → Department of Commerce → Census Bureau → Center for Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
University of Michigan → Ross School of Business, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC) → Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique (DEEP), Lausanne, Switzerland
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
Istituto Einaudi per l'Economia e la Finanza (EIEF), Roma, Italy
University of Essex → Economics Department, Colchester, United Kingdom
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
BI Handelshøyskolen, Oslo, Norway
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
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
London School of Economics (LSE) → Finance Department, London, United Kingdom
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
London School of Economics (LSE) → Department of Geography and Environment, London, United Kingdom

Top 8%

In random order
Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), Wien, Austria
Universität Bern → Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Bern, Switzerland
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Stockholms Universitet → Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm, Sweden
CESifo, München, Germany
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
Dartmouth College → Tuck School of Business, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
Emory University → Department of Economics, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
European Commission → Joint Research Centre, Sevilla, Spain
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (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
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Finance Department, New York City, New York (United States)
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)
University of Melbourne → Faculty of Business and Economics, Melbourne, 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)
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli (LUISS) → Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Roma, Italy
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)

Top 9%

In random order
Universität St. Gallen → School of Economics and Political Science, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) → Départment Économie et Sciences de la Décision, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Dipartimento di Finanza, Milano, Italy
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
McGill University → Department of Economics, Montréal, Canada
Cornell University → Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Ithaca, New York (United States)
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
Lunds Universitet → Ekonomihögskolan, Lund, Sweden
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Curtin University → Faculty of Business and Law, Perth, Australia
University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
Libera Università di Bolzano / Freie Universität Bozen → Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France
Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Università degli Studi di Milano → Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Milano, Italy
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)
University of Oregon → Department of Economics, Eugene, Oregon (United States)
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Frankfurt, Germany
"Sapienza" Università di Roma → Facoltà di Economia → Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Roma, Italy

Top 10%

In random order
Universiteit Utrecht → School of Economics, Utrecht, Netherlands
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
Universitat de Barcelona → School of Economics, Barcelona, Spain
Università degli Studi di Torino → Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis", Torino, Italy
Johns Hopkins University → Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)
Boston University → Questrom School of Business, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
Lebanese American University → Adnan Kassar School of Business, Beirut/Byblos, Lebanon
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → School of Global Policy and Strategy, La Jolla, California (United States)
Tsinghua University → School of Economics and Management, Beijing, China
Oxford University → Oxford Martin School → INET Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Université Paris-Saclay → Graduate School of Economics and Management, Saint-Aubin, France
ESSEC Business School, Cergy-Pontoise, France
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Pittsburgh → Department of Economics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (United States)
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Macquarie University → Business School, Sydney, Australia
Beijing Institute of Technology → Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEP), Beijing, China
University of Glasgow → Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta → Economic Research Department, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Centre de recherche en Économie (OFCE), Paris, France
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