| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 13077 | 213 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 8578 | 172 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 4789 | 180 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2445 | 78 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2191 | 39 |
| 6 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2142 | 102 |
| 7 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1950 | 44 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1620 | 29 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1550 | 31 |
| 10 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 1479 | 58 |
| 11 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1444 | 74 |
| 12 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1379 | 12 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1323 | 23 |
| 14 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1262 | 25 |
| 15 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 1240 | 25 |
| (15) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1201 | 24 |
| 16 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1191 | 20 |
| (16) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1181 | 31 |
| 17 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1169 | 36 |
| 18 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1166 | 30 |
| 19 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 1156 | 30 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1147 | 26 |
| 21 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1116 | 47 |
| 22 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1114 | 23 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 1069 | 28 |
| 24 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 1048 | 22 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1030 | 28 |
| 26 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 1018 | 21 |
| (26) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 1016 | 20 |
| 27 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1010 | 20 |
| 28 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 994 | 22 |
| 29 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 992 | 40 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 973 | 23 |
| (30) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 927 | 14 |
| 31 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 919 | 19 |
| 32 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 917 | 22 |
| 33 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 914 | 40 |
| 34 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 883 | 16 |
| 35 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 865 | 26 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 859 | 18 |
| 37 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 854 | 15 |
| 38 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 826 | 16 |
| 39 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 817 | 31 |
| 40 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 810 | 25 |
| 41 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 809 | 26 |
| 42 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 802 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 798 | 13 |
| (43) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 783 | 16 |
| 44 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 772 | 18 |
| 45 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 738 | 25 |
| 46 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 736 | 34 |
| 47 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 733 | 17 |
| 48 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 724 | 21 |
| 49 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 714 | 22 |
| 50 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 713 | 11 |
| 51 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 700 | 37 |
| 52 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 698 | 20 |
| 53 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 692 | 11 |
| 54 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 687 | 11 |
| 55 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 678 | 14 |
| 56 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 676 | 28 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 664 | 30 |
| 58 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 657 | 9 |
| 59 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 653 | 22 |
| 60 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 650 | 19 |
| 61 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 645 | 41 |
| 62 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 638 | 16 |
| 63 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 635 | 36 |
| 64 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 632 | 20 |
| 65 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 628 | 21 |
| (65) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 626 | 11 |
| 66 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 622 | 16 |
| (66) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 620 | 25 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 616 | 20 |
| 68 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 606 | 22 |
| 69 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 593 | 20 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 592 | 20 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 592 | 10 |
| 72 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 589 | 14 |
| 73 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 588 | 22 |
| (73) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 582 | 15 |
| 74 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 581 | 35 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 571 | 28 |
| 76 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 569 | 25 |
| 77 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 544 | 16 |
| 77 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 544 | 9 |
| 79 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 516 | 8 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 510 | 19 |
| 81 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 489 | 19 |
| 82 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | | 486 | 27 |
| (82) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 482 | 11 |
| 83 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 479 | 25 |
| 84 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 473 | 51 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 471 | 18 |
| 86 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 466 | 22 |
| 87 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 464 | 27 |
| 88 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 459 | 13 |
| (88) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 456 | 12 |
| 89 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 445 | 27 |
| 90 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 443 | 11 |
| (90) | Econometrisch Instituut, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 441 | 13 |
| (90) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 440 | 6 |
| 91 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie Quantitative (CIREQ) | Montréal, Canada | 438 | 15 |
| 92 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 435 | 5 |
| (92) | Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 434 | 16 |
| 92 | Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économique (INSEE), Government of France | Paris, France | 434 | 16 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 432 | 12 |
| 95 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 431 | 10 |
| 95 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 431 | 12 |
| 97 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 426 | 13 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 419 | 15 |
| 99 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 415 | 10 |
| 99 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 415 | 16 |
| 101 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 411 | 25 |
| 102 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 410 | 23 |
| 103 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 409 | 41 |
| (103) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 408 | 18 |
| 103 | CentER for Economic Research, Universiteit van Tilburg (Katholieke Universiteit Brabant) | Tilburg, Netherlands | 408 | 16 |
| 105 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 404 | 16 |
| 106 | École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Université de Lausanne | Lausanne, Switzerland | 399 | 16 |
| 106 | Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques Économiques et l'Emploi (CIRPÉE) | Montréal/Québec, Canada | 399 | 15 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 398 | 14 |
| 108 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 398 | 17 |
| 110 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 396 | 7 |
| (110) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 396 | 7 |
| (110) | Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | | 395 | 20 |
| 111 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 394 | 25 |
| 112 | Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 391 | 13 |
| (112) | Department of Economics and Finance, Business School, Brunel University | Uxbridge, United Kingdom | 391 | 13 |
| 112 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 391 | 8 |
| 114 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 387 | 18 |
| 115 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 386 | 19 |
| (115) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 386 | 9 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 383 | 9 |
| 117 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 382 | 31 |
| 118 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 381 | 12 |
| 119 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 378 | 12 |
| 120 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 376 | 14 |
| 121 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 375 | 17 |
| (121) | Research and Market Analysis Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 375 | 15 |
| 122 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 374 | 10 |
| (122) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 374 | 3 |
| 123 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 373 | 13 |
| 124 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 372 | 14 |
| (124) | Vakgroep Algemene Economie, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 372 | 11 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 370 | 11 |
| (125) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 365 | 3 |
| 126 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 364 | 16 |
| 127 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 363 | 15 |
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