| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 7916 | 180 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4070 | 123 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1996 | 117 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1479 | 55 |
| 5 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1132 | 77 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1057 | 27 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 937 | 23 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 902 | 18 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 876 | 25 |
| 10 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 836 | 18 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 785 | 48 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 763 | 27 |
| 13 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 742 | 11 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 721 | 14 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 716 | 26 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 707 | 19 |
| 17 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 698 | 10 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 622 | 18 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 611 | 19 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 607 | 21 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 606 | 15 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 606 | 35 |
| 23 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 579 | 19 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 548 | 12 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 537 | 17 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 531 | 18 |
| 27 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 529 | 24 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 516 | 11 |
| 29 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 514 | 10 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 497 | 13 |
| 31 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 486 | 19 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 472 | 17 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 448 | 19 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 448 | 13 |
| 35 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 446 | 25 |
| 35 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 446 | 19 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 442 | 11 |
| 38 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 436 | 18 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 426 | 21 |
| 40 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 407 | 28 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 400 | 27 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 399 | 22 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 394 | 17 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 390 | 21 |
| 45 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 389 | 40 |
| 46 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 385 | 15 |
| 46 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 385 | 12 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 382 | 21 |
| 49 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 376 | 14 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 373 | 22 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 370 | 23 |
| 51 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 370 | 4 |
| 53 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 367 | 32 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 361 | 20 |
| 55 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 345 | 10 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 339 | 15 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 333 | 6 |
| 58 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 331 | 12 |
| 59 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 329 | 8 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 325 | 11 |
| 61 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 320 | 28 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 317 | 15 |
| 63 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 311 | 17 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 310 | 15 |
| 65 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 305 | 9 |
| 66 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 301 | 21 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 297 | 22 |
| 68 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 292 | 15 |
| 69 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 291 | 10 |
| 70 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 290 | 12 |
| 70 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 290 | 24 |
| 72 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 289 | 9 |
| 73 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 288 | 7 |
| 73 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 288 | 28 |
| 75 | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 287 | 27 |
| 76 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 283 | 4 |
| 77 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 282 | 16 |
| 78 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 281 | 20 |
| 79 | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 278 | 13 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 278 | 12 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 275 | 13 |
| 81 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 275 | 11 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 271 | 15 |
| 84 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 270 | 7 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 270 | 7 |
| 86 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 269 | 33 |
| 87 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 266 | 9 |
| 87 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 266 | 15 |
| 89 | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 265 | 15 |
| 90 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 264 | 7 |
| 91 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 262 | 13 |
| 92 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 257 | 4 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 251 | 23 |
| 93 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 251 | 3 |
| 95 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 250 | 14 |
| 96 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 247 | 2 |
| 96 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 247 | 15 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 244 | 6 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 244 | 14 |
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