| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5975.79 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 2910.3 | 137 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1524 | 129 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1095.43 | 60 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 910.74 | 28 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 770.54 | 83 |
| 7 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 734.51 | 18 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 714.2 | 25 |
| 9 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 637.44 | 19 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 620.73 | 23 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 616.61 | 12 |
| 12 | CESifo | München, Germany | 587.83 | 30 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 571.83 | 16 |
| 14 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 556.91 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 542.34 | 28 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 521.53 | 20 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 493.04 | 20 |
| 18 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 477.03 | 51 |
| 19 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 459.66 | 11 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 432.93 | 20 |
| 21 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 429.22 | 23 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 428.99 | 12 |
| 23 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 419.65 | 26 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 419.41 | 20 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 414.24 | 16 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 407.09 | 18 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 401.71 | 11 |
| 28 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 389.06 | 36 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 364.65 | 16 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 359.5 | 12 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 358.91 | 13 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 346.65 | 17 |
| 33 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 340.83 | 5 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 308.85 | 15 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 305.93 | 19 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 304.86 | 10 |
| 37 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 303.56 | 24 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 300.65 | 25 |
| 39 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 300.31 | 15 |
| 40 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 296.16 | 13 |
| 41 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 295.11 | 18 |
| 42 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 294.61 | 21 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 294.36 | 21 |
| 44 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 282.83 | 37 |
| 45 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 282.24 | 11 |
| 46 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 280.26 | 21 |
| 47 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 280.08 | 12 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 278.53 | 10 |
| 49 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 277.81 | 20 |
| 50 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 275.53 | 19 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 271.45 | 18 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 270.96 | 29 |
| 53 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 263.89 | 6 |
| 54 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 261.08 | 4 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 259.25 | 23 |
| 56 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 258.33 | 14 |
| 57 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 256.31 | 12 |
| 58 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 252.26 | 33 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 250.83 | 25 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 248.58 | 15 |
| 61 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 245.33 | 22 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 245.24 | 17 |
| 63 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 242.5 | 7 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 232.33 | 21 |
| 65 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 232.28 | 13 |
| 66 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 230.73 | 42 |
| 67 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 227.41 | 9 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 227.31 | 15 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 225.28 | 16 |
| 70 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 224.6 | 20 |
| 71 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 223.16 | 10 |
| 72 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.58 | 7 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 222.58 | 7 |
| 74 | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 218.5 | 7 |
| 75 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 216.98 | 9 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 214.49 | 8 |
| 77 | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 210.83 | 3 |
| 78 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 210.66 | 13 |
| 79 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 208.73 | 12 |
| 80 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 208.41 | 28 |
| 81 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 205.75 | 13 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 202.83 | 12 |
| 83 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 202.53 | 29 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 201.33 | 14 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 191.83 | 17 |
| 86 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 191.78 | 7 |
| 87 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 186.58 | 2 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 186.11 | 8 |
| 89 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 185.41 | 16 |
| 90 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 184.21 | 21 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 183.49 | 17 |
| 92 | Global Economics @ Management Group, Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 182.83 | 1 |
| 93 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 181.74 | 14 |
| 94 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 181.28 | 15 |
| 95 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 179.65 | 15 |
| 96 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 179.53 | 14 |
| 97 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 178.6 | 26 |
| 98 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 178.49 | 24 |
| 99 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 177.91 | 11 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 176.41 | 15 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 175.25 | 18 |
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