| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 12408 | 209 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 7649 | 156 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4104 | 161 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2174 | 67 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2027 | 36 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1935 | 93 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1554 | 27 |
| 8 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1544 | 38 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1507 | 27 |
| 10 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1368 | 13 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1304 | 22 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1302 | 24 |
| 13 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1271 | 55 |
| 14 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1264 | 65 |
| 15 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1153 | 30 |
| 16 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1135 | 32 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1105 | 19 |
| 17 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1088 | 44 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1086 | 22 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1076 | 24 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1059 | 29 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1024 | 26 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 994 | 23 |
| (21) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 992 | 19 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 966 | 24 |
| 23 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 944 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 939 | 23 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 908 | 13 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 905 | 19 |
| 26 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 881 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 860 | 25 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 857 | 20 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 834 | 18 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 832 | 18 |
| 31 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 825 | 26 |
| 32 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 794 | 37 |
| 33 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 790 | 38 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 783 | 11 |
| 35 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 771 | 25 |
| 36 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 769 | 16 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 764 | 21 |
| 38 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 758 | 29 |
| (38) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 742 | 15 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 739 | 15 |
| 40 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 735 | 25 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 712 | 15 |
| 42 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 705 | 11 |
| 43 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 691 | 24 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 679 | 17 |
| 45 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 673 | 12 |
| 46 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 671 | 34 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 670 | 17 |
| 48 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 667 | 16 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 661 | 22 |
| 50 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 660 | 12 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 620 | 13 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 616 | 30 |
| 53 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 601 | 16 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 599 | 21 |
| 55 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montreal, Canada | 595 | 14 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 581 | 29 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 579 | 19 |
| (57) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 576 | 15 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 574 | 20 |
| (58) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 572 | 24 |
| 59 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 570 | 14 |
| 60 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 569 | 19 |
| (60) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 559 | 11 |
| 60 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 559 | 32 |
| 62 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 558 | 16 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 558 | 10 |
| 64 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 550 | 19 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 536 | 6 |
| 66 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 517 | 8 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 510 | 14 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 500 | 24 |
| 69 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 497 | 17 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 494 | 27 |
| 71 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 492 | 28 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 489 | 16 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 488 | 18 |
| 73 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 488 | 19 |
| 75 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 486 | 19 |
| (75) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 476 | 14 |
| 76 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 471 | 16 |
| 77 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 461 | 50 |
| 78 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 456 | 15 |
| 79 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 453 | 7 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 445 | 18 |
| 81 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 442 | 12 |
| 82 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 441 | 22 |
| 83 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 429 | 15 |
| (83) | 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 |
| 83 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 424 | 15 |
| 85 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 417 | 19 |
| 86 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 415 | 14 |
| 87 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 413 | 26 |
| 87 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 413 | 38 |
| 89 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 410 | 9 |
| (89) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 406 | 6 |
| (89) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 405 | 11 |
| 90 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 402 | 4 |
| 91 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 401 | 12 |
| 92 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 400 | 8 |
| 93 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 397 | 11 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 396 | 13 |
| 95 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 395 | 23 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 391 | 14 |
| 97 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 389 | 8 |
| (97) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 389 | 8 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 385 | 18 |
| 99 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 383 | 10 |
| 100 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 379 | 22 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 379 | 13 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 377 | 9 |
| 103 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 374 | 18 |
| (103) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 369 | 3 |
| (103) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 368 | 12 |
| (103) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 366 | 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 | 366 | 16 |
| 104 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 365 | 38 |
| 105 | Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 364 | 15 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 363 | 18 |
| (106) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 361 | 12 |
| 107 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 359 | 18 |
| 108 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 358 | 21 |
| 109 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 353 | 13 |
| 110 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 352 | 10 |
| 111 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 351 | 8 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, University of St Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 348 | 10 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 347 | 8 |
| 113 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 347 | 13 |
| (114) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 346 | 16 |
| 115 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 345 | 16 |
| 115 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 345 | 28 |
| (116) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 344 | 7 |
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