| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 8133 | 185 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 4256 | 137 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2216 | 129 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1483 | 60 |
| 5 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1164 | 83 |
| 6 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1130 | 28 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 918 | 25 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 890 | 18 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 881 | 23 |
| 10 | CESifo | München, Germany | 859 | 30 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 819 | 51 |
| 12 | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 816 | 19 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 769 | 16 |
| 14 | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 745 | 11 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 743 | 28 |
| 16 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 708 | 12 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 699 | 20 |
| 18 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 689 | 36 |
| 19 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 619 | 20 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 615 | 20 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 602 | 20 |
| 22 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 599 | 26 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 592 | 16 |
| 24 | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 578 | 23 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 543 | 12 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 527 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 513 | 18 |
| 28 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 511 | 11 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 508 | 37 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 492 | 13 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 484 | 11 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 475 | 33 |
| 33 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 471 | 16 |
| 34 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 465 | 18 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 461 | 12 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 459 | 17 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 450 | 19 |
| 38 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 445 | 24 |
| 39 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 443 | 21 |
| 40 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 436 | 5 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 426 | 21 |
| 42 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 425 | 20 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 424 | 21 |
| 44 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 415 | 42 |
| 45 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 400 | 19 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 399 | 12 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 397 | 29 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 396 | 23 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 396 | 18 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 391 | 10 |
| 51 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 390 | 25 |
| 52 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 386 | 15 |
| 53 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 376 | 11 |
| 54 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 374 | 22 |
| 55 | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 368 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 366 | 17 |
| 57 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 365 | 6 |
| 58 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 364 | 13 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 351 | 21 |
| 60 | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 350 | 20 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 346 | 10 |
| 62 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 338 | 26 |
| 63 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 337 | 7 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 337 | 15 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 336 | 16 |
| 66 | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 330 | 12 |
| 67 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 329 | 28 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 328 | 25 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 327 | 15 |
| 70 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 324 | 16 |
| 71 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 315 | 21 |
| 72 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 306 | 4 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 303 | 17 |
| 74 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 302 | 17 |
| 74 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 302 | 10 |
| 76 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 301 | 9 |
| 77 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 300 | 12 |
| 77 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 300 | 13 |
| 79 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 296 | 4 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 293 | 14 |
| 81 | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 292 | 13 |
| 81 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 292 | 29 |
| 81 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 292 | 17 |
| 81 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 292 | 13 |
| 85 | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 291 | 26 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 291 | 8 |
| 87 | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 282 | 14 |
| 88 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 280 | 15 |
| 89 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 279 | 9 |
| 90 | Département et Laboratoire d'Economie Théorique Appliquée (DELTA), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 278 | 15 |
| 91 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 276 | 7 |
| 91 | Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 276 | 20 |
| 93 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 275 | 12 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 273 | 17 |
| 94 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 273 | 35 |
| 96 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 272 | 24 |
| 97 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 266 | 16 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 263 | 18 |
| 98 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 263 | 14 |
| 100 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 261 | 15 |
| 101 | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 260 | 2 |
| 101 | Econometria, Facultade de Ciencias Económicas e Empresariais, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela | Santiago de Compostela, Spain | 260 | 15 |
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