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Top 12 Economic research institutes based in France

RevenueBase identified 55 economic research institutes headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,226 professional contacts across them, including 79 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers economic research institutes headquartered in France, 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.

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.

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The 12 largest economic research institutes based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 12 of 55 economic research institutes based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 19, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to economic research institutes: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Indirect evidenceClermont-ferrand, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5057 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Welcome to the CERDI’s Page.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
2Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Qu’est-ce que le CEPII?”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
3Partial evidencePessac, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20044 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Bordeaux Sciences Economiques / Bordeaux School of Economics, laboratoire de recherche en sciences économiques - Université de Bordeaux, CNRS (UMR 6060) et INRAE (UMR 1441)”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
4Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5028 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Rexecode is a French non governmental macroeconomics research institute.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
5Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-20027 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’évaluation des politiques publiques (LIEPP) est une plateforme de recherche de Sciences Po financée dans le cadre du programme "Investissements…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
6Indirect evidenceDijon, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5023 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Page officielle de l'IREDU!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
7Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-5012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le but de la Fondation iFRAP (Fondation pour la recherche sur les administrations et les politiques publiques) est d'« effectuer des études et des recherches scientifiques sur…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
8Strong evidenceBesançon, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202611-509 contacts →

Strong evidence

“CRESE (Centre de REcherche sur les Stratégies Economiques) is a French research center in Economics

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
9Indirect evidenceVilletaneuse, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 202651-2007 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le CEPN (UMR CNRS 7234) est un laboratoire unique en sciences économiques et de gestion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
10Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Créé en 2008, PrimeView est un cabinet indépendant de recherche économique et financière.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
11Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-106 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Asterès est un cabinet de conseil indépendant dans le domaine économique, fondé et dirigé par Nicolas Bouzou.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026
12Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 19, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“GLOBAL MACRO & THEMATIC INDEPENDENT RESEARCH RichesFlores Research (RF Research) élabore des diagnostics économiques et financiers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026

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Economic research institutes based in France at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
6.4%Verified-email coverage
22.3Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
36.4%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
14
11-50
19
51-200
15
201-500
4
501-1,000
1
1,001-5,000
1

Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 55 companies.

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.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in France 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. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
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, 79 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
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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 based in France?

RevenueBase identified 55 economic research institutes headquartered in France 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?

CERDI, headquartered in Clermont-Ferrand, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most economic research institutes?

Paris leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Aix-En-Provence (2) and Dijon (2).

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 79 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 55 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.