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

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1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)96.17561142.62
2London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom57.53362248.66
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)35.356659.13
4Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)32.187360.87
5University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)32.126450.00
6World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)31.30653591.48
7International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)28.62547506.71
8Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom28.1541655.76
9Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)27.776252.93
10Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain26.46185164.26
11Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)26.297054.10
12Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom25.82189141.15
13Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)25.366257.24
14Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)24.064442.55
15University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)24.038573.69
16Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy23.09190152.95
17Paris School of Economics, Paris, France23.08224174.39
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)22.91151136.34
18European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany22.41287261.02
19University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)22.368976.95
19Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)22.366854.01
21New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)22.146047.53
22Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)21.937165.96
23Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)21.5910399.92
24Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)21.535043.87
25Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)21.124940.90
26Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg20.901031186.78
27University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)20.715648.28
28University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)20.596455.45
29Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)20.485644.05
30Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)20.029247.76
31Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France19.90168160.56
32University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)19.885142.06
33University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)19.515245.36
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom19.385745.39
34University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada18.846257.88
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg18.65989146.26
35Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)18.605143.04
36Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France17.8312082.91
37Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)17.816145.77
38University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom17.757056.30
39University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.655349.82
40Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)17.50211205.36
41Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.496351.32
42Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)17.115238.07
43New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)16.755952.43
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 Kingdom16.449174.64
46Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)15.815446.24
47Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)15.484131.58
48Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)15.055547.25
49Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands14.75149129.44
50Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland14.74192167.07
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)14.726860.55
51Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland14.5510698.42
52University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada14.277568.85
53Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)13.954139.64
54Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)13.883630.23
55Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)13.594632.87
56London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom13.543328.22
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.495143.16
56Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)13.496051.86
58Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)13.204138.90
59University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)13.186458.78
-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
60Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium12.96177143.51
61University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)12.783631.98
62Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)12.764233.49
63Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)12.685546.08
64KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium12.58163120.99
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland12.38113102.52
65University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)12.265852.34
66Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.197366.69
67Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia12.05203190.48
68University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)11.924945.73
69University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom11.8511974.51
70University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)11.837457.67
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain11.6610375.27
71Michigan State University → Economics Department, East Lansing, Michigan (United States)11.655449.32
72University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)11.633430.03
-Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands11.5010080.53
73University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.442217.19

Top 6%

In random order
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
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
Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain

Top 7%

In random order
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (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
CESifo, München, Germany
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 Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)

Top 8%

In random order
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
George Mason University → Economics Department, Fairfax, Virginia (United States)
Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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 York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom

Top 9%

In random order
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
George Washington University → Department of Economics, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
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)
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business → Department of Finance and Business Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)
University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria
Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)

Top 10%

In random order
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)
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)
University of Queensland → School of Economics, Brisbane, Australia
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of British Columbia → Sauder School of Business, Vancouver, Canada
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)
Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Harvard University → Harvard Business School → Finance Unit, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
Williams College → Economics Department, Williamstown, Massachusetts (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
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