| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13049 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8357 | 169 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4568 | 173 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2303 | 74 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2188 | 39 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2008 | 100 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1758 | 42 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1598 | 28 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1546 | 31 |
| 10 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1430 | 57 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1419 | 72 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1370 | 12 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1324 | 23 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1258 | 26 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1229 | 25 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1176 | 20 |
| (16) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1175 | 23 |
| 17 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1166 | 36 |
| 18 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1158 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1153 | 30 |
| 20 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1107 | 23 |
| (20) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1075 | 28 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1069 | 44 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1064 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1039 | 21 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1026 | 24 |
| (24) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1017 | 20 |
| 25 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1009 | 20 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1002 | 21 |
| 27 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 991 | 27 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 986 | 22 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 979 | 40 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 970 | 23 |
| (30) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 925 | 14 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 920 | 20 |
| 32 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 907 | 22 |
| 33 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 877 | 16 |
| 34 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 861 | 26 |
| 35 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 851 | 38 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 848 | 18 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 832 | 15 |
| 38 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 809 | 25 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 805 | 16 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 804 | 24 |
| 41 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 800 | 31 |
| (41) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 781 | 16 |
| 42 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 769 | 18 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 768 | 11 |
| 44 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 765 | 22 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 733 | 25 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 725 | 21 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 723 | 16 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 716 | 33 |
| 49 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 707 | 11 |
| 50 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 704 | 21 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 688 | 36 |
| 52 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 678 | 11 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 672 | 32 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 668 | 27 |
| 55 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 666 | 11 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 653 | 19 |
| 57 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 644 | 18 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 642 | 9 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 629 | 14 |
| 60 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 622 | 16 |
| 61 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 620 | 20 |
| 62 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 619 | 14 |
| (62) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 619 | 11 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 611 | 20 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 601 | 22 |
| 65 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 591 | 20 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 589 | 10 |
| 67 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 588 | 15 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 587 | 19 |
| 69 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 583 | 33 |
| 70 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 579 | 39 |
| (70) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 578 | 15 |
| 71 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 566 | 20 |
| 72 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 545 | 21 |
| 73 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 543 | 16 |
| 74 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 541 | 19 |
| 75 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 539 | 9 |
| (75) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 536 | 25 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 523 | 27 |
| 77 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 513 | 8 |
| 78 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 503 | 18 |
| 79 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 491 | 21 |
| 80 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 484 | 19 |
| (80) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 464 | 11 |
| 81 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 463 | 52 |
| 82 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 461 | 27 |
| 83 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 459 | 30 |
| 84 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 456 | 22 |
| (84) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 454 | 12 |
| 85 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 441 | 11 |
| 86 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 439 | 10 |
| 87 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 437 | 27 |
| 87 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 437 | 25 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 431 | 12 |
| (89) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 426 | 16 |
| 89 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 426 | 16 |
| 89 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 426 | 15 |
| 92 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 425 | 5 |
| 92 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 425 | 14 |
| 94 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 421 | 12 |
| (94) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 419 | 6 |
| 95 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 412 | 10 |
| 96 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 411 | 16 |
| 97 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 408 | 12 |
| (97) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 405 | 17 |
| 98 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 404 | 25 |
| 99 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 403 | 16 |
| 99 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 403 | 8 |
| 101 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 398 | 39 |
| 101 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 398 | 8 |
| (101) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 398 | 8 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 396 | 13 |
| (103) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 395 | 20 |
| 104 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 393 | 16 |
| 105 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 390 | 16 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 388 | 24 |
| 106 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 388 | 18 |
| 108 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 387 | 14 |
| 109 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 386 | 21 |
| 110 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 385 | 16 |
| (110) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 384 | 12 |
| 110 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 384 | 9 |
| 112 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 380 | 12 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 373 | 10 |
| 113 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 373 | 12 |
| 115 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 372 | 17 |
| (115) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 372 | 3 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 371 | 14 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 371 | 11 |
| (117) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 369 | 11 |
| 117 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 369 | 12 |
| (117) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 369 | 12 |
| 119 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 368 | 13 |
| (119) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 368 | 14 |
| (119) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 366 | 9 |
| (119) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 364 | 9 |
| 119 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 364 | 16 |
| (120) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 363 | 3 |
| 121 | Fundación de Estudios de Economía Aplicada (FEDEA) | Madrid, Spain | 358 | 10 |
| 122 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 356 | 10 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 353 | 16 |
| 124 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 350 | 8 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 350 | 9 |
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