| Rank | Institution | Location | Score | Authors |
| 1 | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 55091.46 | 222 |
| 2 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) | London, United Kingdom | 31493.35 | 185 |
| 3 | Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) | Bonn, Germany | 14571.59 | 194 |
| 4 | London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 10576.38 | 82 |
| 5 | Department of Economics, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 10342.33 | 40 |
| 6 | CESifo | München, Germany | 8576.91 | 51 |
| 7 | Department of Economics, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 7268.5 | 31 |
| 8 | Department of Economics, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 6791.68 | 28 |
| 9 | International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 6051.01 | 104 |
| 10 | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 6037.08 | 28 |
| 11 | Department of Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 5904.28 | 29 |
| 12 | Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 5890 | 23 |
| 13 | Paris-Jourdan Sciences Économiques (PSE), École Normale Supérieure | Paris, France | 5612.33 | 58 |
| 14 | Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5537.58 | 23 |
| 15 | Cowles Foundation for Economic Research, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5446.16 | 12 |
| 16 | Department of Economics, School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 5419.66 | 26 |
| 17 | Department of Economics, University of Warwick | Coventry, United Kingdom | 5321.91 | 23 |
| 18 | Economics Department, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 5304.01 | 19 |
| (18) | Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5216.85 | 24 |
| (18) | Economics Department, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London | London, United Kingdom | 5105.24 | 34 |
| (18) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 5000.25 | 24 |
| 19 | World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 4918.14 | 79 |
| 20 | Department of Economics, University of California | San Diego / La Jolla, California (USA) | 4907.56 | 28 |
| (20) | Finance & Economics Department, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 4783.25 | 14 |
| 21 | Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 4521.33 | 23 |
| 22 | Department of Economics, Boston University | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 4482.78 | 28 |
| 23 | Department of Economics, Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (USA) | 4353.66 | 30 |
| 24 | Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 4110.75 | 11 |
| 25 | Economics Department, University of Wisconsin | Madison, Wisconsin (USA) | 4060.5 | 20 |
| 26 | Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 4041.46 | 36 |
| 27 | Faculteit Economie, Universiteit van Amsterdam | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 4027.81 | 40 |
| 28 | Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 3785.83 | 13 |
| 29 | Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3763.18 | 18 |
| (29) | Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Faculté des Sciences Économiques, Université des Sciences Sociales (Toulouse I) | Toulouse, France | 3720.73 | 21 |
| 30 | Department of Economics, University of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 3707.99 | 16 |
| 31 | Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3693.56 | 32 |
| 32 | Economics Department, Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island (USA) | 3661.83 | 26 |
| 33 | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3643.19 | 17 |
| 34 | Department of Economics, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 3610.31 | 31 |
| 35 | Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee (USA) | 3589.24 | 19 |
| 36 | Department of Economics, University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada | 3521.16 | 29 |
| 37 | Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 3513.35 | 22 |
| 38 | Department of Economics and Related Studies, University of York | York, United Kingdom | 3440.83 | 15 |
| 39 | Economics Department, Queen's University | Kingston, Canada | 3399.66 | 25 |
| 40 | Department of Economics, University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 3336.03 | 17 |
| 41 | Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge | Cambridge, United Kingdom | 3221.83 | 29 |
| 42 | Department of Economics, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3179.28 | 14 |
| 43 | Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 3173.56 | 27 |
| 44 | Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | Evanston, Illinois (USA) | 3091.03 | 21 |
| 45 | Department of Economics, University of California | Los Angeles, California (USA) | 3088.35 | 22 |
| 46 | Tinbergen Instituut | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2995.18 | 45 |
| 47 | School of Economics, University of Nottingham | Nottingham, United Kingdom | 2895.16 | 23 |
| 48 | Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2864.71 | 21 |
| 49 | Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) | London, United Kingdom | 2839.45 | 25 |
| 50 | Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 2833.03 | 33 |
| 51 | Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Jerusalem, Israel | 2795.21 | 21 |
| 52 | Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD) | Torino, Italy | 2726.61 | 39 |
| 53 | Department of Economics, University of Connecticut | Storrs, Connecticut (USA) | 2671.76 | 32 |
| 54 | Department of Economics, University of Calgary | Calgary, Canada | 2629.6 | 18 |
| 55 | Department of Economics, University of Washington | Seattle, Washington (USA) | 2583.16 | 9 |
| 56 | Department of Economics, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2571.64 | 21 |
| (56) | Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) | 2557.11 | 13 |
| 57 | School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University | New York City, New York (USA) | 2549.66 | 8 |
| 58 | Department of Economics, University College London, University of London | London, United Kingdom | 2527.59 | 20 |
| 59 | Department of Economics, University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada | 2490.25 | 22 |
| 60 | Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi | Milano, Italy | 2484.74 | 26 |
| 61 | Federal Reserve Bank of New York | New York City, New York (USA) | 2442.11 | 29 |
| 62 | William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2416.5 | 23 |
| 63 | School of Economics, University of Queensland | Brisbane, Australia | 2358.08 | 19 |
| 64 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 2350.66 | 19 |
| 65 | Economics Department, University of California | Davis, California (USA) | 2284.48 | 13 |
| 66 | Economics Department, University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) | 2281 | 19 |
| (66) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | San Francisco, California (USA) | 2278.16 | 16 |
| 67 | Department of Economics, Florida State University | Tallahassee, Florida (USA) | 2238.16 | 25 |
| 68 | Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2234.33 | 7 |
| (68) | Department of Economics, Business School, University of Auckland | Auckland, New Zealand | 2234.33 | 7 |
| 69 | Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de Montréal | Montréal, Canada | 2218.83 | 17 |
| 70 | Department of Economics, University of Maryland | College Park, Maryland (USA) | 2211.83 | 20 |
| 71 | Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University | Princeton, New Jersey (USA) | 2201.41 | 11 |
| 72 | Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung, Universität St. Gallen | Sankt Gallen, Switzerland | 2192.33 | 27 |
| 73 | Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario | London, Canada | 2190.5 | 14 |
| 74 | Department of Economics, Duke University | Durham, North Carolina (USA) | 2181.16 | 19 |
| 75 | Department of Economics, Ohio State University | Columbus, Ohio (USA) | 2175.66 | 14 |
| 76 | Department of Economics, University of California | Santa Barbara, California (USA) | 2161.16 | 10 |
| 77 | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität | München, Germany | 2159.21 | 21 |
| 78 | Graduate School of Business, Stanford University | Palo Alto, California (USA) | 2131.08 | 13 |
| 79 | Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 2112.66 | 10 |
| (79) | Finance Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2099.78 | 16 |
| 80 | Department of Economics, Iowa State University | Ames, Iowa (USA) | 2092.18 | 25 |
| 81 | Olin School of Business, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 2053.83 | 7 |
| 82 | Departament d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Barcelona, Spain | 2035.49 | 36 |
| 83 | Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 2015.63 | 10 |
| 84 | Economics Department, University of California | Santa Cruz, California (USA) | 1960.08 | 8 |
| 85 | Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University | Burnaby, Canada | 1959.58 | 17 |
| (85) | Economic Analysis & Policy Group (EAP), Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1958.16 | 7 |
| 86 | Economics Department, Georgetown University | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1948.91 | 19 |
| 87 | Harvard Business School, Harvard University | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1933.49 | 13 |
| 88 | Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1916.66 | 23 |
| 89 | Department of Economics, Leicester University | Leicester, United Kingdom | 1909.08 | 13 |
| 90 | Economics Department, University of Rochester | Rochester, New York (USA) | 1887.5 | 10 |
| 91 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen, Erasmus Universiteit | Rotterdam, Netherlands | 1813.16 | 40 |
| 92 | Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv, Israel | 1802.8 | 8 |
| 93 | European Central Bank | Frankfurt am Main, Germany | 1801.36 | 45 |
| 94 | Department of Economics, European University Institute | Firenze, Italy | 1801.33 | 26 |
| (94) | Department of Economics, Tepper School of Business Administration, Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1772.96 | 9 |
| 95 | Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet | Uppsala, Sweden | 1768.81 | 33 |
| 96 | Division of Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California (USA) | 1731.24 | 15 |
| 97 | Economics Group, Nuffield College, Oxford University | Oxford, United Kingdom | 1724.76 | 16 |
| 98 | Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1699.75 | 8 |
| 99 | Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University | Clayton, Australia | 1675 | 19 |
| 100 | Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des Organisations (CIRANO) | Montréal, Canada | 1669.66 | 24 |
| 101 | Department of Economics, University of Glasgow | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1667.83 | 10 |
| 102 | Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1660.23 | 14 |
| (102) | Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakutät, Universität Zürich | Zürich, Switzerland | 1658.83 | 10 |
| 103 | Department of Economics, University of Illinois | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (USA) | 1658.08 | 14 |
| (103) | Economics Research, World Bank Group | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1653.1 | 18 |
| 104 | American Bar Foundation (ABF) | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1650.33 | 3 |
| 105 | College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1640.66 | 8 |
| (105) | Department of Economics, College of Business, Arizona State University | Tempe, Arizona (USA) | 1635.66 | 7 |
| 106 | Bank of England | London, United Kingdom | 1628.91 | 15 |
| 107 | Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) | Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA) | 1627.59 | 13 |
| 108 | Department of Economics, University of Texas | Austin, Texas (USA) | 1598.24 | 15 |
| 109 | Department of Economics, McMaster University | Hamilton, Canada | 1597.58 | 21 |
| 110 | Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University | Cardiff, United Kingdom | 1576.58 | 19 |
| (110) | Economics Department, Stern School of Business, New York University | New York City, New York (USA) | 1570.26 | 13 |
| 111 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Bedrijfskunde, Universiteit Maastricht | Maastricht, Netherlands | 1556.23 | 23 |
| 112 | Economics Division, University of Southampton | Southampton, United Kingdom | 1543.21 | 14 |
| 113 | College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1530.69 | 4 |
| (113) | Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business, University of Wyoming | Laramie, Wyoming (USA) | 1530.69 | 4 |
| 114 | Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM) | Marseille, France | 1529.75 | 18 |
| 115 | Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California | Berkeley, California (USA) | 1520.21 | 10 |
| 116 | School of Management, Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut (USA) | 1512 | 11 |
| 117 | Economics Department, Michigan State University | East Lansing, Michigan (USA) | 1499.24 | 16 |
| 118 | Warrington College of Business, University of Florida | Gainesville, Florida (USA) | 1495.83 | 7 |
| 119 | Federal Reserve Bank of Boston | Boston, Massachusetts (USA) | 1484.5 | 8 |
| 120 | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago | Chicago, Illinois (USA) | 1471.04 | 15 |
| 121 | Department of Economics, Washington University | St. Louis, Missouri (USA) | 1457.41 | 9 |
| (121) | Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland | Cleveland, Ohio (USA) | 1455.33 | 6 |
| (121) | Department of Economics, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University | West Lafayette, Indiana (USA) | 1442.66 | 11 |
| 122 | Economics Department, George Mason University | Fairfax, Virginia (USA) | 1430.49 | 9 |
| (122) | Economic Research Division, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | Richmond, Virginia (USA) | 1428.66 | 7 |
| 123 | Department of Economics, University of St. Andrews | Fife, United Kingdom | 1428.16 | 15 |
| 124 | Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Fachbereich, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität | Bonn, Germany | 1424.36 | 18 |
| (124) | Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF) | Washington, District of Columbia (USA) | 1421.91 | 24 |
| 125 | Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University | State College, Pennsylvania (USA) | 1421.33 | 10 |
| 126 | Department of Economics, Cornell University | Ithaca, New York (USA) | 1418.08 | 14 |
| 127 | DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) | Berlin, Germany | 1411.18 | 57 |
| 128 | Faculteit der Economische Wetenschapen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Groningen, Netherlands | 1404.99 | 19 |
| 129 | Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Madrid, Spain | 1397.81 | 35 |
| 130 | Faculté des sciences économiques, sociales et politiques (ESPO), Université Catholique de Louvain | Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium | 1376.5 | 26 |
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