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

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1National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)93.62570143.23
2London School of Economics (LSE), London, United Kingdom58.06363249.60
3University of Chicago → Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois (United States)33.596658.87
4University of California-Berkeley → Department of Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)32.126551.00
5Harvard University → Department of Economics, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)31.187562.87
6International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)30.87550510.76
7World Bank Group, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)30.44661598.90
8Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Economics Department, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)28.676454.83
9Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), Barcelona, Spain28.66196176.80
10Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, United Kingdom27.1842155.32
11Oxford University → Department of Economics, Oxford, United Kingdom26.81188140.70
12Yale University → Economics Department, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)26.297154.86
13Brown University → Economics Department, Providence, Rhode Island (United States)25.366358.74
14Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano, Italy24.75190151.42
15University of Chicago → Department of Economics, Chicago, Illinois (United States)24.038775.59
16Stanford University → Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California (United States)23.535144.87
17Stanford University → Department of Economics, Stanford, California (United States)23.366955.51
18Paris School of Economics, Paris, France23.28226175.79
19Dartmouth College → Economics Department, Hanover, New Hampshire (United States)23.064441.07
20New York University (NYU) → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)22.646048.03
21European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany22.42293266.83
22University of California-Berkeley → Walter A. Haas School of Business, Berkeley, California (United States)22.385243.05
23Boston University → Department of Economics, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)21.937367.05
24Princeton University → Department of Economics, Princeton, New Jersey (United States)21.625142.40
25University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)21.438876.35
-World Bank Group → Economics Research, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)21.05150134.55
26Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg20.631032186.70
27Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City, New York (United States)20.5910399.92
28University of Michigan → Economics Department, Ann Arbor, Michigan (United States)20.596455.45
29Harvard University → Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)20.029247.71
-London School of Economics (LSE) → Economics Department, London, United Kingdom19.905745.91
30University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)19.715850.28
31Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Toulouse, France19.61168161.77
32University of California-San Diego (UCSD) → Department of Economics, La Jolla, California (United States)19.515144.36
33Columbia University → School of Arts and Sciences → Department of Economics, New York City, New York (United States)19.485543.05
34University of British Columbia → Vancouver School of Economics, Vancouver, Canada18.846156.88
35Northwestern University → Department of Economics, Evanston, Illinois (United States)18.425042.87
-Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) → IZA@LISER Network, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg18.38989145.27
36Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) → Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)18.316347.77
37Sciences Po → Sciences économiques, Paris, France17.8311579.98
38New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.655952.43
38University of Pennsylvania → Department of Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)17.655248.82
40Columbia University → Graduate School of Business, New York City, New York (United States)17.496351.32
41Cornell University → Department of Economics, Ithaca, New York (United States)17.115339.07
42University College London (UCL) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom177660.45
43University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) → Anderson Graduate School of Management, Los Angeles, California (United States)16.473734.70
44University of Warwick → Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom16.449375.64
45Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)16210204.30
46Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält, Zürich, Switzerland15.74194167.71
47Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel, Switzerland15.6010597.42
48Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (United States)14.815244.24
49Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)14.734030.58
50University of Toronto → Department of Economics, Toronto, Canada14.497267.22
51Johns Hopkins University → Department of Economics, Baltimore, Maryland (United States)14.483630.84
-Federal Reserve Bank of New York → Research and Statistics Group, New York City, New York (United States)14.226860.55
52Harvard University → Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)14.094632.87
53Duke University → Department of Economics, Durham, North Carolina (United States)14.095446.30
54Monash University → Monash Business School, Melbourne, Australia14.05203191.47
55Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management, Tilburg, Netherlands13.90149129.44
56University of Nottingham → School of Economics, Nottingham, United Kingdom13.8411774.30
57Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Bruxelles, Belgium13.56180143.99
-Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) → Universitat Pompeu Fabra → Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Barcelona, Spain13.3610780.22
58Yale University → School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)13.264434.99
59Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California (United States)13.204138.90
-Columbia University → Graduate School of Business → Finance and Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)13.062822.92
-Sciences Po → Sciences économiques → Department of Economics, Paris, France13.065040.46
60London Business School (LBS), London, United Kingdom13.043428.72
61Vanderbilt University → Department of Economics, Nashville, Tennessee (United States)12.955149.64
62Georgetown University → Economics Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)12.785849.18
-Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis → Research Division, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)12.494941.21
62Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)12.495849.91
-Universität Zürich → Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutält → Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Zürich, Switzerland12.38114102.41
64University of Texas-Austin → Department of Economics, Austin, Texas (United States)12.266053.84
65Universiteit van Amsterdam → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Amsterdam, Netherlands12.2411086.14
66Rijksuniversiteit Groningen → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfskunde, Groningen, Netherlands12.209686.71
67Boston College → Department of Economics, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (United States)12.197366.69
68University of Notre Dame → Department of Economics, South Bend, Indiana (United States)12.186458.75
69University of Southern California → Department of Economics, Los Angeles, California (United States)12.087659.89
70Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam → School of Business and Economics, Amsterdam, Netherlands11.94140105.79
71Université Catholique de Louvain → Louvain Institute of Data Analysis and Modelling in Economics and Statistics (LIDAM), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium11.9113897.21
72KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen, Leuven, Belgium11.91163121.00
73University of Wisconsin-Madison → Economics Department, Madison, Wisconsin (United States)11.783631.98
74Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI), Madrid, Spain11.733227.12
75University of Minnesota → Department of Economics, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)11.692217.19

Top 6%

In random order
University of California-Irvine → Department of Economics, Irvine, California (United States)
University of California-Davis → Economics Department, Davis, California (United States)
University of Virginia → Department of Economics, Charlottesville, Virginia (United States)
Universiteit van Tilburg → School of Economics and Management → CentER Graduate School for Economics and Business, Tilburg, Netherlands
University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) → Department of Economics, Santa Barbara, California (United States)
University of Chicago → Harris School of Public Policy, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis → Research Department, Minneapolis, Minnesota (United States)
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Tel Aviv University → Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv, Israel
DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung), Berlin, Germany
Brookings Institution, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Finance Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
ifo Institut - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der Universität München e.V., München, Germany
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München → Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, München, Germany
University of California-Berkeley → Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Berkeley, California (United States)
Washington University in St. Louis → Department of Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco → Economic Research, San Francisco, California (United States)
London School of Economics (LSE) → Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London, United Kingdom
University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) → Economics Department, Santa Cruz, California (United States)

Top 7%

In random order
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Australian National University → Crawford School of Public Policy, Canberra, Australia
Université Libre de Bruxelles → Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management → European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Bruxelles, Belgium
CESifo, München, Germany
Pennsylvania State University → Department of Economics, State College, Pennsylvania (United States)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (United States)
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE), Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi → Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Milano, Italy
Hebrew University of Jerusalem → Department of Economics, Jerusalem, Israel
Imperial College → Business School, London, United Kingdom
Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam → Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) → Research Department, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Western Ontario → Department of Economics, London, Canada
Aarhus Universitet → Institut for Økonomi, Aarhus, Denmark
University of Maryland → Department of Economics, College Park, Maryland (United States)
Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main → Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Top 8%

In random order
Queen's University → Economics Department, Kingston, Canada
New York University (NYU) → Stern School of Business → Economics Department, New York City, New York (United States)
Rutgers University-New Brunswick → Department of Economics, New Brunswick, New Jersey (United States)
Columbia University → School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), New York City, New York (United States)
University of Cambridge → Faculty of Economics, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Universität Mannheim → Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Mannheim, Germany
Washington University in St. Louis → Olin School of Business, St. Louis, Missouri (United States)
Cornell University → College of Agriculture and Life Sciences → Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ithaca, New York (United States)
Tinbergen Instituut, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Københavns Universitet → Økonomisk Institut, København, Denmark
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond → Economic Research Division, Richmond, Virginia (United States)
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid → Departamento de Economía, Madrid, Spain
Monash University → Monash Business School → Department of Economics, Melbourne, Australia
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn → Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Bonn, Germany
Arizona State University → W.P. Carey School of Business → Department of Economics, Tempe, Arizona (United States)
Oxford University → Saïd Business School, Oxford, United Kingdom
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
Ohio State University → Department of Economics, Columbus, Ohio (United States)
University of Rochester → Economics Department, Rochester, New York (United States)
Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford, California (United States)

Top 9%

In random order
Northwestern University → Kellogg Graduate School of Management → Department of Finance, Evanston, Illinois (United States)
Purdue University → Mitch Daniels School of Business → Department of Economics, West Lafayette, Indiana (United States)
Aix-Marseille Université → École d'Économie d'Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence/Marseille, France
University of Toronto → Rotman School of Management, Toronto, Canada
Brookings Institution → Economic Studies, Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
University of Washington → Department of Economics, Seattle, Washington (United States)
University of Southern California → Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles, California (United States)
Banco de España, Madrid, Spain
Tufts University → Department of Economics, Medford, Massachusetts (United States)
George Washington University → Department of Economics, 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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign → Department of Economics, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (United States)
KU Leuven → Faculteit Economie en Bedrijfswetenschappen → Department of Economics, Leuven, Belgium
INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Université de Lausanne → Faculté des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Lausanne, Switzerland
University of Cambridge → Judge Business School, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE), Paris, France
University of York → Department of Economics and Related Studies, York, United Kingdom
Duke University → Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia (United States)

Top 10%

In random order
University of Pennsylvania → Wharton School of Business → Real Estate Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
Banque de France, Paris, France
Stockholm School of Economics → Department of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Palaiseau, France
London Business School (LBS) → Department of Economics, London, United Kingdom
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
UNSW Sydney → UNSW Business School, Sydney, Australia
Yale University → Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, New Haven, Connecticut (United States)
Universität Wien → Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wien, Austria
University of Miami → Miami Herbert Business School → Department of Economics, Coral Gables, Florida (United States)
Universität zu Köln → Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Germany
WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, Austria
Universitetet i Oslo → Økonomisk institutt, Oslo, Norway
Maastricht University → School of Business and Economics, Maastricht, Netherlands
Göteborgs Universitet → Handelshögskolan, Göteborg, Sweden
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
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
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas (United States)
HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales), Jouy-en-Josas, France
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