| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5523.86 | 188 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3036.69 | 143 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1620.19 | 141 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1031.96 | 64 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 918.33 | 30 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 782.2 | 85 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 685.93 | 25 |
| 8 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 682.85 | 19 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 659.25 | 34 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 628.06 | 24 |
| 11 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 591.94 | 12 |
| 12 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 557.73 | 27 |
| (12) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 557.11 | 19 |
| 13 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 534.91 | 19 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 516.94 | 22 |
| (14) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 510.33 | 12 |
| 15 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 501.48 | 28 |
| 16 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 469.83 | 54 |
| 17 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 448.5 | 11 |
| (17) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 445.42 | 26 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 442.03 | 23 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 433 | 20 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 428.26 | 22 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 426.41 | 16 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 416.26 | 21 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 411.95 | 15 |
| 24 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 406.37 | 37 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 405.48 | 18 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 382.24 | 15 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 379.6 | 10 |
| 28 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 372.25 | 15 |
| 29 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 354.26 | 25 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 349.76 | 11 |
| 31 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 349.38 | 39 |
| 32 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 341.31 | 25 |
| (32) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 335.25 | 11 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 330.01 | 16 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 328.51 | 19 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 325.23 | 17 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board, Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 323.64 | 27 |
| 37 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 316.48 | 15 |
| 38 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 310.44 | 19 |
| 39 | Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 310.44 | 24 |
| 40 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 308.46 | 38 |
| 41 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 300.08 | 14 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 293.36 | 17 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 292.74 | 11 |
| 44 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 291.79 | 29 |
| (44) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 291.74 | 15 |
| 45 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 290.5 | 6 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 290.36 | 21 |
| 47 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 286.33 | 35 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 285.7 | 10 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 281.36 | 16 |
| 50 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 276.73 | 21 |
| 51 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 276.41 | 15 |
| 52 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 271.24 | 23 |
| (52) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 269.98 | 12 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 269.16 | 26 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 267.14 | 6 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 264.86 | 22 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 264.49 | 25 |
| 57 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 264.36 | 17 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 261.14 | 10 |
| 59 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 248.18 | 14 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 247.7 | 15 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 247.58 | 19 |
| 62 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 243.99 | 9 |
| 63 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 237.01 | 48 |
| 64 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 234.36 | 30 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 233.47 | 16 |
| 66 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 229.5 | 7 |
| 67 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 228.41 | 16 |
| (67) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 227.01 | 21 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 225.58 | 23 |
| 69 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 221.58 | 8 |
| (69) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 221.58 | 8 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 217.24 | 16 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 215.91 | 12 |
| 72 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 215.41 | 4 |
| 73 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 213.75 | 11 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 213.46 | 29 |
| 75 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 211.58 | 28 |
| (75) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 209.78 | 14 |
| 76 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 209.58 | 21 |
| 77 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 206.11 | 7 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 205.5 | 9 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 202.75 | 18 |
| 80 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 202.21 | 21 |
| (80) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 201.62 | 3 |
| 81 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 195.41 | 13 |
| 82 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 194.9 | 16 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 193.33 | 13 |
| (83) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 192.83 | 13 |
| (83) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 191.45 | 13 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 186.58 | 13 |
| 85 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 183.66 | 17 |
| 86 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 182.33 | 37 |
| 87 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 181.74 | 15 |
| 88 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 181.01 | 17 |
| 89 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 179.83 | 25 |
| 90 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 179.15 | 15 |
| 91 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 178.41 | 18 |
| 92 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 178.03 | 36 |
| 93 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 174.53 | 9 |
| 94 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 172.73 | 8 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 171.58 | 18 |
| 96 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 171.35 | 4 |
| 97 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 171.11 | 16 |
| 98 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 169.5 | 7 |
| (98) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 169.49 | 3 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 168.7 | 13 |
| 100 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 167 | 7 |
| 101 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 166.53 | 17 |
| 102 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 166.36 | 11 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 165.93 | 13 |
| 104 | de Nederlandsche Bank, Government of the Netherlands | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 165.61 | 20 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 162.28 | 8 |
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