| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6365.75 | 209 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3491.67 | 156 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1936.57 | 161 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1142.25 | 67 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1093.08 | 36 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 933.04 | 93 |
| 7 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 858.53 | 13 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 812.74 | 27 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 774.2 | 38 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 753.14 | 27 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 751.94 | 24 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 749.76 | 22 |
| 13 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 645.71 | 65 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 643.35 | 55 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 630.25 | 22 |
| 16 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 604.38 | 30 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 599.06 | 29 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 596.4 | 19 |
| 18 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 595.86 | 20 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 544.58 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 537.28 | 24 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 526.5 | 23 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 513.01 | 32 |
| 22 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 499.99 | 11 |
| (22) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 491.91 | 15 |
| (22) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 479.42 | 26 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 472.26 | 23 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 470.98 | 21 |
| 25 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 466.91 | 44 |
| 26 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 460.48 | 19 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 458.81 | 25 |
| (27) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 446.15 | 19 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 444.5 | 18 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 434.08 | 20 |
| 30 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 417.59 | 16 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 416.14 | 24 |
| 32 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 405.08 | 17 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 403.7 | 29 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 397.43 | 11 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 394.93 | 18 |
| 36 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 392.35 | 26 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 379.53 | 25 |
| 38 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 377.36 | 38 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 367.6 | 30 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 366.25 | 12 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 361.51 | 13 |
| 42 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 358.11 | 21 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 354.41 | 14 |
| 44 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 350.19 | 24 |
| 45 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 349.78 | 16 |
| 46 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 339.66 | 17 |
| 47 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 333.45 | 15 |
| 48 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 328.46 | 12 |
| 49 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 327.13 | 37 |
| 50 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 315.41 | 25 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 306.7 | 15 |
| 52 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 303.66 | 7 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 302.78 | 21 |
| 54 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 302.41 | 14 |
| 55 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 301.18 | 16 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 298.18 | 16 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 297.85 | 29 |
| 58 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 296.04 | 19 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 291.61 | 10 |
| 60 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 291.15 | 6 |
| 61 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 290.88 | 22 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 285.89 | 20 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 283.83 | 27 |
| (63) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 281.89 | 15 |
| (63) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 280.28 | 11 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 279.53 | 19 |
| 65 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 267.53 | 32 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 260.48 | 10 |
| 67 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 258.83 | 12 |
| 68 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 256.91 | 14 |
| 69 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 256.19 | 34 |
| (69) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 254.3 | 24 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 250.91 | 14 |
| 71 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 246.9 | 19 |
| 72 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 240.45 | 8 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 239.5 | 22 |
| 74 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 238.58 | 8 |
| (74) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 238.58 | 8 |
| 75 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 236.83 | 5 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 235.16 | 18 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 234 | 23 |
| 78 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 231.33 | 14 |
| 79 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 230.21 | 22 |
| 80 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 228.49 | 19 |
| 81 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 226.58 | 28 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 224.74 | 15 |
| 83 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 224.36 | 16 |
| (83) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 224.28 | 14 |
| 84 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 216.58 | 17 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 216.33 | 9 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 213.86 | 24 |
| 87 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 212.35 | 50 |
| 88 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 211.41 | 18 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 211.33 | 8 |
| (89) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 209.66 | 6 |
| 90 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 208.78 | 21 |
| 91 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 208.7 | 16 |
| (91) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 208.54 | 3 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 206.91 | 13 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 205.16 | 26 |
| 94 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 203.89 | 38 |
| 95 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 203.01 | 18 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 202.1 | 15 |
| 97 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 201.73 | 19 |
| (97) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 201.11 | 11 |
| 98 | Handelshøjskolen i København | København, Denmark | 200.33 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 199.24 | 13 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 197.53 | 10 |
| 101 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 196.86 | 9 |
| (101) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 196.15 | 16 |
| 102 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 192.83 | 6 |
| (102) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 191.58 | 3 |
| 103 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 191.06 | 19 |
| 104 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 190.44 | 16 |
| (104) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 189.16 | 9 |
| 105 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 188.28 | 38 |
| 106 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 187.1 | 4 |
| 107 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 186.52 | 14 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 186.33 | 8 |
| 109 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 185.41 | 13 |
| 110 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 184.2 | 11 |
| 111 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 184.03 | 15 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 183.51 | 18 |
| 113 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 182.95 | 11 |
| 114 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 182.41 | 21 |
| 115 | Department of Economics, University of St Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 182.03 | 10 |
| 116 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 181.66 | 18 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 180.99 | 7 |
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