| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12240 | 208 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7550 | 154 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4063 | 160 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2160 | 67 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2003 | 35 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1934 | 93 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1513 | 38 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1496 | 27 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1347 | 26 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1278 | 20 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1244 | 62 |
| 12 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1152 | 31 |
| 13 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1130 | 31 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1127 | 50 |
| (14) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1099 | 19 |
| 15 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1077 | 44 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1076 | 25 |
| 17 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1061 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1048 | 29 |
| 19 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1035 | 12 |
| (19) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1027 | 27 |
| 20 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1022 | 22 |
| (20) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 991 | 19 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 987 | 24 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 959 | 24 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 939 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 928 | 23 |
| 25 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 909 | 37 |
| (25) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 888 | 13 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 882 | 20 |
| 27 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 859 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 854 | 23 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 825 | 18 |
| 30 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 816 | 26 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 790 | 18 |
| 32 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 781 | 37 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 778 | 11 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 770 | 22 |
| 35 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 763 | 16 |
| 36 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 761 | 24 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Government of the United States | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 745 | 29 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 744 | 17 |
| (38) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 739 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 731 | 25 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 726 | 15 |
| 41 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 704 | 11 |
| 42 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 700 | 15 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 687 | 24 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 679 | 17 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 660 | 17 |
| 46 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 658 | 33 |
| 47 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 657 | 22 |
| 48 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 648 | 15 |
| 49 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 636 | 11 |
| 50 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 604 | 12 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 590 | 21 |
| 52 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 589 | 13 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 572 | 29 |
| (53) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 570 | 15 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 569 | 20 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 568 | 19 |
| 56 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 566 | 19 |
| (56) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 564 | 23 |
| 57 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 563 | 33 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 556 | 10 |
| 59 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 555 | 14 |
| 60 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 549 | 14 |
| (60) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 549 | 11 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 549 | 16 |
| 62 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 546 | 19 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 530 | 28 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 526 | 6 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 524 | 28 |
| 66 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 512 | 14 |
| 67 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 509 | 8 |
| 68 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 498 | 51 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 497 | 16 |
| 70 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 496 | 17 |
| 71 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 493 | 19 |
| 72 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 487 | 28 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 486 | 18 |
| 74 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 481 | 19 |
| (74) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 473 | 14 |
| 75 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 459 | 16 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 455 | 15 |
| 77 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 444 | 7 |
| 78 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 442 | 12 |
| 79 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 435 | 22 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 425 | 17 |
| (80) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 424 | 15 |
| 80 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 424 | 15 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 422 | 23 |
| 83 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 415 | 14 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 413 | 13 |
| 85 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 409 | 18 |
| 86 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 408 | 25 |
| 87 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 407 | 9 |
| 88 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 401 | 4 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 400 | 8 |
| 90 | European Central Bank, European Community | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 399 | 36 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 393 | 23 |
| (91) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 393 | 11 |
| (91) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 392 | 6 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 389 | 18 |
| 93 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 386 | 8 |
| (93) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 386 | 8 |
| 94 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 385 | 22 |
| 95 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 383 | 10 |
| (95) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 382 | 12 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 381 | 13 |
| 97 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 379 | 10 |
| 98 | Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex | Colchester, United Kingdom | 378 | 9 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 377 | 13 |
| 100 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 376 | 9 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 376 | 9 |
| 102 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 372 | 18 |
| 103 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 370 | 37 |
| (103) | Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 368 | 32 |
| (103) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 367 | 3 |
| (103) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 364 | 16 |
| (103) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 362 | 3 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 360 | 18 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 357 | 13 |
| 105 | Bank of England, Government of the United Kingdom | London, United Kingdom | 357 | 17 |
| (105) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 357 | 12 |
| 107 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 356 | 22 |
| 108 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 352 | 10 |
| 109 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 351 | 13 |
| 109 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 351 | 14 |
| 111 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 348 | 18 |
| 111 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 348 | 8 |
| 113 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 347 | 28 |
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