The following are some name brand research centers: Hoover
Institution,
Brookings Institution,
RAND,
The
National Bureau of Economic Research, Resources
for the Future,
CEP at the LSE,
Santa
Fe Institute,
Center
for Research on Economic and Financial Cycles, and at Berkeley the
BRIE
on international economics. (All are 
).
The IC2 Institute at the University
of Texas at Austin.
This is the Web site for the IC2 Institute, which
is a research center founded by George Kozmetsky. At this site you will
find information about research and conferences associated with the Institute
and its fellows in a large number of fields. The scope of those activities
is especially noteworthy, although in recent years the primary focus has
narrowed..
World Bank, OECD,
European Central Bank, and IMF.
Also see Research
at the IMF.
For other links to governmental research, see the Data Section of this web site.
According to rational expectations theory, the public will
learn of the government's own model, since there otherwise would be an
unexploited profit opportunity from selling information based upon the
government's model. The Macroeconomic
Advisers firm, previously called Laurence H. Meyer & Associates,
is the living evidence of that theory, since they originally were formed
for the primary purpose of selling consulting services based upon a version
of the Federal Reserve Board's own quarterly model used for policy simulations
at the Federal Reserve at that time. For a free alternative that might
be more suitable for academic research purposes, see the FAIRMODEL in the
Computer Programs section below.