The Economic Roundtable conducts research in collaboration with local universities. Joint program participants have included:

• Health Consumer Alliance of California
• Corporation for Supportive Housing
• UCLA Center for Sustainable Urban Systems
• Social Science Research Center California State University, Fullerton
• The Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs
• UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
• UCLA Business Forecasting Project
• UCLA Department of Geography
• UCLA Urban Center for People and the Environment
• USC Department of Geography
• USC WebGIS Services
• Los Angeles Homelessness Project at USC
• Southern California Studies Center at USC
• Southern California Inter-University Consortium on Homelessness and Poverty
• USC Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
• USC Sustainable Cities Program
• UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)