| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6460 | 210 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3485.04 | 158 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 1934.24 | 164 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1158.31 | 69 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1098.11 | 37 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 961.25 | 97 |
| 7 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 862.11 | 13 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 834.44 | 28 |
| 9 | CESifo | München, Germany | 782.2 | 38 |
| 10 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 758.93 | 22 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 756.64 | 29 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 755.4 | 23 |
| 13 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 670.49 | 69 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 641.51 | 55 |
| 15 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 636.41 | 22 |
| 16 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 626.95 | 21 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 621.56 | 30 |
| (17) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 605.71 | 20 |
| 18 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 604.88 | 30 |
| (18) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 550.24 | 13 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 544.19 | 24 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 542.16 | 23 |
| 21 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 518.01 | 33 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 517.31 | 25 |
| (22) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 507.25 | 16 |
| 23 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 498.99 | 11 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 484.17 | 26 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 483.63 | 22 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 477.26 | 24 |
| 26 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 471.41 | 45 |
| 27 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 460.95 | 16 |
| 28 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 460.31 | 19 |
| (28) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 451.31 | 19 |
| 29 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 434.58 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 418.98 | 24 |
| 31 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 418.53 | 39 |
| 32 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 418.09 | 16 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 415.33 | 19 |
| 34 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 413.68 | 30 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 399.59 | 11 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 396.24 | 18 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 382.86 | 26 |
| 38 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 379.68 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 373.33 | 17 |
| 40 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 371.33 | 11 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 368.1 | 30 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 362.84 | 14 |
| 43 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 356.91 | 14 |
| 44 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 348.08 | 15 |
| 45 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 347.95 | 21 |
| 46 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 347.18 | 16 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 344.86 | 23 |
| 48 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 341.49 | 17 |
| 49 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 333.75 | 12 |
| 50 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 330.3 | 37 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 326.35 | 30 |
| 52 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 323.33 | 23 |
| 53 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 322.18 | 16 |
| 54 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 320.08 | 15 |
| 55 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 313.24 | 25 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 308.7 | 15 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 306.11 | 21 |
| 58 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 305 | 7 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 304.28 | 10 |
| 60 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 300.68 | 17 |
| 61 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 298.65 | 7 |
| 62 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 295.29 | 20 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 291.58 | 27 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 291.47 | 20 |
| (64) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 281.89 | 15 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 281.53 | 19 |
| 66 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 279.48 | 20 |
| (66) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 275.93 | 11 |
| 67 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 273.28 | 32 |
| 68 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 261.36 | 13 |
| 69 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 259.98 | 10 |
| 70 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 258.44 | 35 |
| (70) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 257.29 | 25 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 253.14 | 17 |
| 72 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 253.03 | 14 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 252.16 | 14 |
| 74 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 241.28 | 8 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 240.83 | 22 |
| 76 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.24 | 8 |
| (76) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.24 | 8 |
| 77 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 238.83 | 5 |
| 78 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 230.71 | 22 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 230.66 | 15 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 228.66 | 22 |
| 81 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 228.66 | 19 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 227.58 | 15 |
| 83 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 224.78 | 22 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 224.41 | 15 |
| (84) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 219.66 | 6 |
| 85 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 218.91 | 17 |
| 86 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 217.83 | 9 |
| 87 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 213.96 | 16 |
| 88 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 213.94 | 8 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 213.58 | 18 |
| 90 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 213.03 | 23 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 212 | 8 |
| (91) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 211.61 | 13 |
| 92 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 211.43 | 18 |
| 93 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 211.41 | 27 |
| 94 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 211.08 | 27 |
| (94) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 209.54 | 3 |
| (94) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 207.51 | 17 |
| (94) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 205.61 | 11 |
| 95 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 204.86 | 16 |
| 96 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 204.63 | 20 |
| 97 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 203.05 | 38 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 200.74 | 13 |
| 99 | Handelshøjskolen i København | København, Denmark | 199.83 | 10 |
| 100 | Brookings Institution | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 199.41 | 7 |
| 101 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 197.86 | 10 |
| 102 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 197.36 | 9 |
| 103 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 196.78 | 8 |
| 104 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 195.78 | 11 |
| 105 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 192.76 | 17 |
| (105) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 191.58 | 3 |
| (105) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 191.16 | 9 |
| 106 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 190.57 | 4 |
| 107 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 189.46 | 50 |
| 108 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 189.33 | 8 |
| 109 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 189.28 | 39 |
| 110 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 187.03 | 15 |
| 111 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 187 | 19 |
| 112 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 186.91 | 13 |
| 113 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 186.58 | 23 |
| 114 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 186.52 | 14 |
| 115 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 186.36 | 11 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 184.85 | 18 |
| 117 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 184.23 | 14 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 184.11 | 7 |
| (117) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 183.99 | 7 |
| (117) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 182.5 | 17 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 181.86 | 11 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 178.36 | 10 |
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