| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6767.15 | 217 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 3991.69 | 179 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 2368.54 | 188 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 1282.91 | 79 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 1217.66 | 40 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 1100.03 | 48 |
| 7 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 999.06 | 101 |
| 8 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 859.61 | 12 |
| 9 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 857.06 | 29 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 846.3 | 26 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 775.56 | 31 |
| 12 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 774.71 | 76 |
| 13 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 769.01 | 23 |
| 14 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 748.76 | 58 |
| 15 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 703.14 | 19 |
| (15) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 693.55 | 22 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 647.75 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 646.2 | 30 |
| 18 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 643.03 | 23 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 638.38 | 24 |
| 19 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 636.95 | 21 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 629.93 | 26 |
| 21 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 610.96 | 30 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 604.84 | 25 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 569.64 | 28 |
| (23) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 564.5 | 32 |
| 24 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 560.65 | 21 |
| (24) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 553.58 | 14 |
| 25 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 548.16 | 22 |
| 26 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 541.25 | 28 |
| 27 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 529.85 | 36 |
| 28 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 525.95 | 17 |
| 29 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 514.48 | 20 |
| (29) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 512.58 | 16 |
| 30 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 503.66 | 11 |
| 31 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 480.68 | 22 |
| 32 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 478.53 | 40 |
| 33 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 474.77 | 47 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 461.35 | 33 |
| (34) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 459.98 | 20 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 457.33 | 18 |
| 36 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 430.14 | 32 |
| 37 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 428.61 | 26 |
| 38 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 421.83 | 13 |
| 39 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 419.56 | 22 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 396.36 | 17 |
| 41 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 393.1 | 14 |
| 42 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 389.7 | 23 |
| 43 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 388.8 | 21 |
| 44 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 387.21 | 21 |
| 45 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 385.68 | 25 |
| 46 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 378.25 | 40 |
| 47 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 377.45 | 27 |
| 48 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 374.34 | 16 |
| 49 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 373.74 | 19 |
| 50 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 372.06 | 16 |
| 51 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 362.18 | 19 |
| 52 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 359.06 | 37 |
| 53 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 358.58 | 25 |
| 54 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 357.16 | 28 |
| 55 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 350.74 | 14 |
| 56 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 345.51 | 20 |
| 57 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 343.72 | 31 |
| 58 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 342.76 | 18 |
| 59 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 334.46 | 11 |
| 60 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 334.28 | 26 |
| 61 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 321.66 | 28 |
| 62 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 317.63 | 23 |
| 63 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | | 311.39 | 21 |
| 64 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 309.31 | 13 |
| 65 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 309.16 | 8 |
| (65) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 307.36 | 13 |
| 66 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 306.53 | 10 |
| 67 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 306.2 | 25 |
| 68 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 299.09 | 43 |
| 69 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 298.78 | 35 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 295.97 | 20 |
| 71 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 293.86 | 22 |
| (71) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 293.26 | 12 |
| 72 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 289.95 | 31 |
| 73 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 286.31 | 8 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | | 284.68 | 19 |
| (74) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 284.48 | 15 |
| 75 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 281.66 | 21 |
| 76 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 272.58 | 22 |
| 77 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 271.94 | 25 |
| 78 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 271.93 | 10 |
| 79 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Vrije Universiteit | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 271.22 | 37 |
| 80 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 264.66 | 16 |
| (80) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 261.33 | 7 |
| 81 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 256.78 | 11 |
| 82 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 255.19 | 14 |
| (82) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 254.92 | 24 |
| 83 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 251.16 | 23 |
| 84 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 248.91 | 15 |
| 85 | Universidad del CEMA | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 244.94 | 26 |
| 86 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 243.83 | 19 |
| 87 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 242.95 | 8 |
| (87) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 242.59 | 9 |
| (87) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 241.81 | 17 |
| 88 | School of Finance and Economics, University of Technology | Sydney, Australia | 238.88 | 22 |
| 89 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 236.08 | 7 |
| (89) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 236.08 | 7 |
| 90 | Organisation de Coopération et de Développement Économiques (OCDE) | Paris, France | 235.98 | 49 |
| 91 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 235.86 | 10 |
| 92 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 234.33 | 25 |
| 93 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 233.91 | 27 |
| 94 | Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 233.25 | 4 |
| 95 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 233.23 | 19 |
| 96 | Département des sciences économiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) | Montréal, Canada | 232.36 | 27 |
| 97 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 232.08 | 17 |
| 98 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 231.83 | 13 |
| (98) | Center for International Development, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 226.24 | 4 |
| 99 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 223.18 | 19 |
| 100 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 222.5 | 9 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 220.08 | 19 |
| 102 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 219.89 | 20 |
| 103 | Handelshögskolan i Stockholm | Stockholm, Sweden | 217.99 | 27 |
| (103) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 215.78 | 12 |
| 104 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 214.25 | 28 |
| 105 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 213.43 | 12 |
| 106 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 211.61 | 13 |
| 107 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 210.5 | 8 |
| 108 | Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) | Paris, France | 209.94 | 42 |
| 109 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 207.5 | 16 |
| 110 | Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 206.46 | 5 |
| 111 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 205.93 | 16 |
| 112 | Département d'Économique, Université Laval | Ste-Foy, Canada | 205.46 | 17 |
| 113 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 203.86 | 15 |
| 114 | Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo | Oslo, Norway | 203.48 | 9 |
| 115 | Copenhagen Business School | København, Denmark | 202.33 | 10 |
| 116 | Department of Economics, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA) | 200.24 | 12 |
| 117 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 199.56 | 10 |
| 118 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 196.14 | 17 |
| 119 | Escola de Pós-Graduação em Economia, Getulio Vargas Foundation | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 194.74 | 13 |
| (119) | Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 193.91 | 3 |
| 120 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 193.59 | 14 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Emory University | Atlanta, Georgia (USA) | 191.68 | 18 |
| 122 | Faculteit Economische en toegepaste economische wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Leuven, Belgium | 190.99 | 32 |
| 123 | Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway | Oslo, Norway | 190.43 | 16 |
| 124 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 189.56 | 12 |
| 125 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 189.41 | 7 |
| 126 | Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Barcelona, Spain | 189.41 | 17 |
| 127 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 188.31 | 34 |
| 128 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 185.66 | 10 |
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