| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6666.11 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3788.99 | 169 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2129.55 | 173 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1202.8 | 74 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1148.16 | 39 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 960.88 | 100 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 886.11 | 42 |
| 8 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 855.03 | 12 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 841.95 | 28 |
| 10 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 772.14 | 31 |
| 11 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 763.76 | 23 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 731.27 | 72 |
| 13 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 714.26 | 57 |
| 14 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 707.4 | 20 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 644.65 | 30 |
| 16 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 639.91 | 23 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 629.29 | 23 |
| 17 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 626.36 | 21 |
| 18 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 615.73 | 26 |
| 19 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 606.05 | 30 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 596.07 | 25 |
| 21 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 578.49 | 24 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 566.14 | 28 |
| (22) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 552.91 | 14 |
| 23 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 543.65 | 20 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 541.75 | 21 |
| 25 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 527.43 | 36 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 511 | 27 |
| (26) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 510.58 | 16 |
| (26) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 500.09 | 28 |
| 27 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 498.99 | 11 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 484.01 | 23 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 477.15 | 40 |
| 30 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 473.73 | 20 |
| 31 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 463.57 | 44 |
| (31) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 458.15 | 20 |
| 32 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 454.45 | 15 |
| 33 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 450.83 | 18 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 441.35 | 33 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 437.47 | 21 |
| 36 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 428.03 | 26 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 418.26 | 31 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 417.48 | 22 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 389.41 | 14 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 388.59 | 11 |
| 41 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 383.35 | 24 |
| 42 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 370.95 | 22 |
| 43 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 370.83 | 11 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 370.74 | 18 |
| 45 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 369.56 | 16 |
| 46 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 367.45 | 25 |
| 47 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 366.34 | 14 |
| 48 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 365.86 | 9 |
| 49 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 355.2 | 16 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 355.16 | 27 |
| 51 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 349.41 | 15 |
| 52 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 349.22 | 32 |
| 53 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 341.16 | 38 |
| 54 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 339.31 | 9 |
| 55 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 334.35 | 16 |
| 56 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 327.26 | 16 |
| 57 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 326.88 | 11 |
| 58 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 325.46 | 22 |
| 59 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 324.33 | 25 |
| 60 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 318.26 | 18 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 309.48 | 20 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 304.28 | 10 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 300 | 27 |
| 64 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 299.38 | 20 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 292.89 | 19 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 292.06 | 19 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 285.03 | 20 |
| (67) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 282.23 | 15 |
| 68 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 278.6 | 21 |
| 69 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 277.23 | 10 |
| 70 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 273.73 | 12 |
| 71 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 271.36 | 33 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 271.1 | 11 |
| 72 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 268.61 | 36 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 268.44 | 22 |
| 74 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 268.33 | 20 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 268 | 21 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 267.58 | 21 |
| 77 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 258.48 | 30 |
| 78 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 254.58 | 11 |
| 79 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 253.69 | 13 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 252.66 | 16 |
| 81 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 249.25 | 16 |
| 82 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 248 | 39 |
| (82) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 247.89 | 9 |
| (82) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 243.7 | 11 |
| 83 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 243.16 | 21 |
| (83) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 242.75 | 25 |
| 84 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 242.36 | 10 |
| 85 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 241.61 | 8 |
| 86 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.75 | 8 |
| (86) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 240.75 | 8 |
| 87 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 237.55 | 22 |
| 88 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 236.71 | 52 |
| 89 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 234.53 | 23 |
| 90 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 233.41 | 19 |
| 91 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 231.66 | 24 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 231.66 | 12 |
| 93 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 231.25 | 4 |
| (93) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 230.26 | 17 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 229.58 | 16 |
| 95 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 223.56 | 16 |
| 96 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 221.68 | 19 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 221.16 | 9 |
| (97) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 218.99 | 9 |
| (97) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 217.83 | 6 |
| 98 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 216.33 | 27 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 216.08 | 18 |
| (99) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 215.28 | 12 |
| 100 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 213.91 | 8 |
| 101 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 212.11 | 13 |
| (101) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 212.04 | 3 |
| 102 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 209.83 | 27 |
| 103 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 209.66 | 25 |
| 104 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 208.53 | 11 |
| 105 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 207.5 | 16 |
| 106 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 207.16 | 25 |
| 107 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 205.46 | 16 |
| 108 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 201.48 | 9 |
| 109 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 201.18 | 16 |
| 110 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 200.33 | 10 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 200.24 | 12 |
| 112 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 199.22 | 5 |
| 113 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 198.86 | 10 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 198.69 | 14 |
| 115 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 196.11 | 39 |
| 116 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 193.91 | 13 |
| 117 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 193.18 | 18 |
| (117) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 192.08 | 3 |
| (117) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 192.08 | 20 |
| 118 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 191.94 | 12 |
| 119 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 191.27 | 15 |
| 120 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 187.91 | 17 |
| 121 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 186.41 | 7 |
| 122 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 185.83 | 8 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 184.66 | 10 |
| (123) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 180.49 | 7 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Tufts University | Medford, Massachusetts (USA) | 179.66 | 13 |
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