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Top 25 Economic research institutes worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,675 economic research institutes worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 31,932 professional contacts across them, including 7,946 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers economic research institutes worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for economic research institutes follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest economic research institutes worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,594 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Die Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft ist eine der führenden Organisationen für anwendungsorientierte Forschung: Seit der Gründung 1949 stärken Fraunhofer-Institute die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 611 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Oxford Economics, we equip our clients with the data and understanding they need to navigate an uncertain, fast-changing and challenging global economic and business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 524 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1944 to promote Brazil’s social and economic development, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) has consolidated itself as a one of the top 10 think tanks* in the world as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 471 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Erasmus School of Economics is a school with an international reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 454 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas – Fipe é uma organização de direito privado, sem fins lucrativos, criada em 1973.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 452 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bates White Economic Consulting offers services to law firms, Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit research organization dedicated to conducting and disseminating nonpartisan economic research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 261 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With more than 300 employees at two locations - Mannheim and Cologne - GESIS provides essential and internationally relevant research-based services for the social sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 255 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “blisko międzynarodowo przez całe życie Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Katowicach” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 227 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Thailand’s most respected economic think-tank with 30 years of policy research experiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 224 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Institute for Employment Research (IAB) conducts research on the labour market in order to advise political actors at all levels in a competent manner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “UKRI Economic and Social Research Council funds research and training in social and economic issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Shaping the Economic Debate”: The ifo Institute wants to help shape the economic policy debate in Germany and Europe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) is one of the leading economic research instituts in Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 213 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER /) was established on September 1, 1976 by Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 194 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more information please visit or contact us on: Founded in 1992 by a team of expert economists and analysts, CEIC Data provides the most expansive and accurate data insights…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 191 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Now Proudly Part of Cadmus.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “SEO Amsterdam Economics conducts applied economic research on behalf of both public and private sector clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a group, we provide services across the whole spectrum – from science and education to consultancy and communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “NCAER is India's oldest and largest national, non-profit, economic research institute.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IZA@LISER is a global community of scholars dedicated to excellence in labor economics and related fields.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 178 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim is a non-profit and independent institute with the legal form of a limited liability company (GmbH).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LISER is a Luxembourgish public research institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CEPR is an independent, non‐partisan, pan‐European non‐profit organization.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 159 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) does scientific research aimed at contributing to the economic decision-making process of politicians and policymakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: economic research institutes. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names economic research institutes.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of economic research institutes, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name economic research institutes. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Economic research institutes worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among economic research institutes, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for economic research institutes are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “economic research institutes”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names economic research institutes), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among economic research institutes, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 7,946 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Economic research institutes by location
10 lists · largest firstEvery Economic research institutes list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Economic research institutes based in the United States223
- Economic research institutes based in Germany141
- Economic research institutes based in Italy79
- Economic research institutes based in the United Kingdom70
- Economic research institutes based in India62
- Economic research institutes based in Brazil60
- Economic research institutes based in France55
- Economic research institutes based in Australia38
- Economic research institutes based in the Netherlands36
- Economic research institutes based in Switzerland26
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names economic research institutes, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many economic research institutes are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,675 economic research institutes worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, headquartered in Munchen, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most economic research institutes?
The United States leads with 223 companies, followed by Germany (141) and Italy (79). Every economic research institutes list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most economic research institutes?
London leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Berlin (21) and Paris (21).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 7,946 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,675 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.